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On 14 February 2017, the European Commission adopted a proposal amending Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 (the 'Comitology Regulation') in order to increase the transparency and accountability of the decision-making process leading to the adoption of implementing acts. The main elements of the proposal include amending the voting rules for the Appeal Committee (AC) in order to reduce the risk of a no opinion scenario and to clarify the positions of the Member States, providing for the possibility of a ...

When adopting implementing acts, the Commission acts under the scrutiny of the Member States (represented in specialised committees and an appeal committee) following mechanisms set out in the Comitology Regulation. In 2017, the Commission proposed amendments to this Regulation, aimed at eliminating 'no opinion' deadlocks in the appeal committee and increasing transparency in the procedure. The European Parliament is expected to vote on the proposal during the December plenary session.

By introducing delegated and implementing acts, the Lisbon Treaty (2007) reformed the system of conferring upon the Commission the power to adopt non-legislative measures. However, a certain category of pre-Lisbon acts, referred to as 'regulatory procedure with scrutiny' (RPS) measures, remained unaligned to the new system. Following Commission proposals of December 2016, a number of acts referring to RPS are now to be aligned with the Lisbon Treaty, while others remain to be negotiated. Having reached ...

Member States' success in implementing environmental legislation can be measured through the information they send to the European Commission (reporting), which is based on the control activities they carry out (monitoring). In its 2018 work programme, the European Commission announced its intention to streamline requirements in this area, as a follow-up to a Fitness Check on Environmental Monitoring and Reporting (finalised in June 2017).

TARGET balances are the claims and liabilities of euro area national central banks (NCBs) with the ECB. TARGET balances add up to zero but the sum of the absolute value of these balances has grown substantially since 2008. The levels of TARGET balances within the Eurosystem has never been so high. In September 2017, Germany’s positive TARGET balance equalled €879 billion, which is over 25 percent of current German GDP. Luxembourg, Netherlands and Finland have also built up large claims relative ...

Kommissionen er den EU-institution, der har monopol på initiativretten på lovgivningsområdet, og den har væsentlige udøvende beføjelser inden for politiske områder, såsom konkurrence og udenrigshandel. Den er Den Europæiske Unions primære udøvende organ og består af et kollegium sammensat af én kommissær fra hver medlemsstat. Den er også formand for de udvalg, der er ansvarlige for gennemførelsen af EU-lovgivningen. Det tidligere komitologisystem er blevet erstattet af nye retlige instrumenter, nemlig ...

Den Europæiske Union har status som juridisk person og har dermed sin egen særskilte retsorden i forhold til folkeretten. EU-lovgivningen har endvidere direkte eller indirekte indvirkning på lovgivningen i medlemsstaterne og bliver en del af hver enkelt medlemsstats retssystem. Den Europæiske Union er i sig selv en retskilde. Retsordenen inddeles normalt i primær ret (traktaterne og de generelle retlige principper), afledt eller sekundær ret (baseret på traktaterne) og supplerende ret.

Food is considered to be one of the most important sources of human exposure to chemicals. The safety of materials coming into contact with food should therefore be carefully evaluated, as chemicals from these can migrate into food. The European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) has drafted an own-initiative report highlighting the problems related to the implementation of the Food Contact Materials Regulation, and this is due to be debated during the ...

The European Semester is an annual exercise allowing coordination of the budgetary and economic policies of the Member States. The 2015 cycle started in November 2014 with the Annual Growth Survey which outlined the main economic priorities for the EU, and recommended three main pillars to promote growth and economic recovery. The Survey also proposed to streamline the European Semester, in order to improve the implementation of country-specific recommendations.

This report has been drafted upon the invitation of the European Parliament to perform a study on the provisions, instruments or areas of activity of EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies, where judicial review is not possible. As the judicial reviewability of EU soft administrative and regulatory rule-making is particularly problematic, this type of rule-making has been put central. The report aims at highlighting the institutional, procedural and judicial framework within which soft rule-making ...