Author (Person) | Lintner, Pamela, Vaccari, Beatrice |
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Series Title | EIPAScope |
Series Details | No.1, 2005, p15-25 |
Publication Date | 2005 |
ISSN | 1025-6253 |
Content Type | Journal | Series | Blog |
Some 300 legislative acts are adopted every year by the European Parliament and the Council, or by the Council alone. Based on these acts, the European Commission adopts around 3,000 implementing acts each year, after consulting one of the 250 so-called 'Comitology committees' made up of representatives of the Member States. Only about 0.2% of these delegated acts are referred back to the Council because of non-agreement between the Commission and the Committee. Since the entry into force of the second Comitology decision in 1999, Parliament also has a right of scrutiny over such acts, but it has used this right in order to question the Commission's proposals in only three cases. This paper asks whether this right of scrutiny is an appropriate way of controlling delegated rule-making. It starts with a short historical overview of Parliament's role, before describing the current legal regulation of Parliament's involvement in comitology procedures. It then |
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Source Link | http://www.eipa.nl/en/eipascope/archive/ |
Subject Categories | Politics and International Relations |
Countries / Regions | Europe |
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