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1998/0219(CNS) Comitology, follow-up to Amsterdam: procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission

Progress: Procedure completed

RoleCommitteeRapporteurShadows
Lead INST AGLIETTA Maria Adelaide (icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE)
Committee Opinion REGL CORBETT Richard (icon: PES PES)
Committee Opinion PECH
Committee Opinion AGRI MULDER Jan (icon: ELDR ELDR)
Committee Opinion ENVI COLLINS Kenneth D. (icon: PES PES)
Committee Opinion BUDG WYNN Terence (icon: PES PES)
Committee Opinion JURI CASSIDY Bryan M.D. (icon: PPE PPE)
Committee Opinion CONT BOURLANGES Jean-Louis (icon: PPE PPE)
Committee Opinion LIBE
Committee Opinion ENER MCNALLY Eryl Margaret (icon: PES PES)
Committee Opinion RELA KREISSL-DÖRFLER Wolfgang (icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE)
Committee Opinion TRAN BAZIN Jean-Pierre (icon: UFE UFE)
Committee Opinion AFET LENZ Marlene (icon: PPE PPE)
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
EC Treaty (after Amsterdam) EC 202

Events

2011/12/12
   EC - Follow-up document
2011/12/12
   EC - Follow-up document
2007/12/20
   EC - Follow-up document
Details

In accordance with Decision 1999/468/EC, the Commission presents its annual report on the working of committees for 2006. It contains general comments on the development of the comitology system, a horizontal overview of committees’ activities and an Annex with detailed statistics regarding the individual comitology committees, arranged according to the different departments of the Commission.

2006 was marked by significant reform of the comitology procedure . Council Decision 2006/512/EC amending Council Decision 1999/468/EC was adopted on 17 July 2006 and entered into force on 23 July of the same year. The amendment to Council Decision 1999/468/EC is intended to meet the longstanding requests by the European Parliament to improve its rights to scrutinise implementation of legislative acts adopted under the co-decision procedure. The amendment introduces a “regulatory procedure with scrutiny” (PRAC), which is added to the existing procedures (advisory, management, regulatory and safeguard).

In a joint statement, the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission agreed on a list of basic legal acts that must be urgently brought into line with the PRAC. The 26 corresponding proposals for this priority alignment were adopted by the Commission on 22 December 2006. All other basic legal acts adopted under the co-decision procedure, which are not listed in the joint statement of July 2006, also have to be aligned. The Commission has committed to reviewing all existing legal acts and, whenever necessary, to make relevant proposals for their alignment before the end of 2007.

The October 2000 bilateral (Commission/European Parliament) agreement on procedures for implementing the Comitology Decision has to be revised to be brought into line with the statement on transparency/updated register, the new regulatory procedure with scrutiny and, whenever possible, to streamline current arrangements. The revision of this agreement is foreseen before the end of 2007.

As in previous reports, this report gives global figures on formal opinions delivered by the committees and the subsequent implementing measures (legal acts, administrative and financing decisions) adopted by the Commission. These figures describe the concrete “output” of the committees. The total number of opinions delivered by the committees in 2006 was 2 933 (compared with 2 582 in 2005), and the number of implementing measures adopted by the Commission was 2 862 (compared with 2 654 in 2005).

The large number of implementing measures adopted in certain policy sectors – Agriculture (1 576), Health and Consumer Protection (328), EuropeAid (297), Research (212) and Information Society (73) – again reflects the intensity of work delegated to the Commission in these areas via the comitology procedures. When compared with the previous year, a significant increase can be noted for EuropeAid (124 in 2005), whereas a decrease can be noted in the sector of Enterprise and Industry (10 in 2006 compared with 55 in 2005) and of Taxation and Customs Union (7 in 2006 compared with 47 in 2005).

2007/12/20
   EC - Follow-up document
2006/08/09
   EC - Document attached to the procedure
2006/08/09
   EC - Follow-up document
Details

PURPOSE: to report on the working of committees in 2005.

CONTENT: this report covers the activities of the comitology committees which met during the course of 2005. Attached to the report is an Annex containing detailed statistics regarding the individual comitology committees. The Annex also provides textual comments on changes relating to a number of committees and on exceptional events relating to specific draft measures, such as unfavourable opinions, EP resolutions resulting from the exercise of the right of scrutiny and referrals to the Council. The report also examines inter-institutional negotiations on the revision of Council Decision 1999/468/EC, which is soon to be concluded.

As a reminder, the purpose of the comitology committees is to assist the Commission in exercising its implementing powers . Comitology committees need to be distinguished from other committees and groups of experts set up by the Commission to assist it in exercising its right of initiative or in carrying out monitoring, coordination or co-operation tasks with the Member States. These consultative bodies, of which there are around 1 300, are not analysed in this report.

The European Parliament’s right of scrutiny: The Commission is obliged to inform the European Parliament of work in progress in the Committees and to send it all draft implementing measures concerning basic legal acts which have been adopted in conformity with the co-decision procedure. In February 2000, the European Parliament and the Commission concluded an “Agreement on procedures for implementing Council Decision 1999/468/EC”. This was specifically designed to regulate the procedures for implementing the obligations incumbent on the Commission. Although, under the terms of the Agreement, the Commission has one month in which to forward a definitive draft implementing measure, in practice the Commission uploads the draft implementing measure into the register at the same time as they send it to the Member States. If a vote is launched by written procedure, without a committee meeting being held in accordance with the rules of Procedure, the same applies. Once the vote has taken place the Commission is instructed to complete a voting form, which indicates the global result of the vote in respect of the specific draft implementing measure.

In cases where the draft implementing measure has been amended, it will be uploaded a second time into the register, together with the voting form, and sent to the European Parliament. In cases where the draft implementing measure remains unchanged, only the voting form is uploaded and transmitted to the European Parliament. The version of the draft implementing measure initially uploaded is then considered the final draft.

Resolutions adopted by the European Parliament in 2005: In 2005, the European Parliament adopted two Resolutions, in which it claimed that the Commission exceeded the implementing powers conferred upon it when adopting specific implementing measures. In both cases they concerned environmental issues: waste and hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment. In both cases, the Commission defends its position and is waiting for a Court ruling on the matter.

Review of transmissions to the European Parliament: In a 2005 Resolution, the Parliament called on the Commission to undertake a careful review of all transmissions of draft implementing measures since the register went into production. The result of a Commission review was accordingly forwarded to the Parliament in 2005. In cases where anomalies were detected, the Commission proposed an “ex-post” control, which gave the Parliamentary committees concerned the possibility to re-examine the implementing measures. The Commission also offered to repeal any measure the European Parliament requested – such as the end of life vehicles Directive. Further, the Commission implemented reinforced internal control mechanisms within its administrative procedures to avoid similar problems in the future.

Referrals to the Council: In 2005, a total of 11 cases were referred to the Council. They occurred in four policy areas; Health and Consumer Protection; Environment; Europe Aid and Statistics. The eleven cases referred to the Council represent less than 0.5% of the total number of implementing measures adopted by the Commission under the management or regulatory procedures of which there were 2 637. The Commission points out that 10 referrals were draft Commission decisions regarding the authorisation to place genetically modified products on the market. The high concentration of GMO referrals can be attributed to the divided views of the Member States.

Reform of the current comitology system: At the end of the Austrian Presidency in June 2006, the three institutions reached agreement modifying Council Decision 1999/468/EC and the introduction of new regulatory procedures with scrutiny. This new procedure will apply to implementing measures of a general scope and to non-essential elements of basic legal acts adopted under the co-decision procedure. The Parliament obtains the right to veto the substance of such implementing measures and, as a result, greatly improves its control powers over the implementing powers conferred on the Commission by comitology procedures.

The Committees in figures: Transport/energy (38), enterprise (32), environment (32) and Agriculture (31) continue to have by far the largest number of committees. With 133 out of a total of 250 committees, these policy sectors alone account for more than half of all the committees. Commission efforts to stabilise the number of committees is beginning to bear fruit. Whilst the overall number of committees at the end of 2005 were slightly higher than in 2004, it still meets the Commission objective to limit the number of committees to around 250.

2005/01/07
   EC - Follow-up document
Details

PURPOSE: to present a report from the Commission on the activities of comitology committees in 2003.

CONTENT: this report covers the activities of comitology committees during the year 2003 and follows the basic structure of the previous report covering the year 2002.

It contains an introductory Section 1, which looks at the legal nature and role of the committees in question, the state of implementation of Decision 1999/468/EC, the European Parliament's right of scrutiny, referrals to the Council and wider developments (e.g. Convention on the Future of Europe and enlargement).

This is followed by a horizontal overview of committees' activities in Section 2 that looks at the number of committees and types of procedures, the number of meetings and the number of opinions and instruments.

Lastly, there is an Annex with detailed statistics regarding the individual comitology committees, organized according to the different departments of the Commission (presented as a Commission staff paper).

This report maintains the improved transparency of the statistics in the Annex by listing all committees individually together with textual comments on their activities.

2003/09/08
   EC - Follow-up document
2002/12/13
   EC - Follow-up document
2001/12/20
   EC - Follow-up document
1999/07/17
   EU - Implementing legislative act
1999/07/17
   Final act published in Official Journal
1999/06/28
   EP/CSL - Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
1999/06/28
   EP - End of procedure in Parliament
1999/06/28
   CSL - Council Meeting
1999/06/21
   CSL - Council Meeting
1999/05/31
   CSL - Debate in Council
Documents
1999/05/31
   CSL - Council Meeting
1999/05/06
   EP - Text adopted by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
1999/05/06
   EP - Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
Documents
1999/05/05
   EP - Debate in Parliament
1999/03/24
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading
1999/03/24
   EP - Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
1999/03/24
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading
Documents
1999/03/16
   EP - Committee opinion
Documents
1999/03/16
   EP - Committee opinion
Documents
1999/03/08
   EP - Committee opinion
Documents
1999/03/01
   EP - Committee opinion
Documents
1999/02/17
   EP - BAZIN Jean-Pierre (UFE) appointed as rapporteur in TRAN
1999/02/10
   EP - Committee draft report
Documents
1999/01/12
   EP - Committee opinion
Documents
1998/12/15
   EP - Committee opinion
Documents
1998/11/30
   EP - Committee opinion
Documents
1998/11/26
   EP - Committee opinion
Documents
1998/11/19
   EP - Committee draft report
Documents
1998/11/10
   EP - KREISSL-DÖRFLER Wolfgang (Verts/ALE) appointed as rapporteur in RELA
1998/10/29
   EP - Committee opinion
Documents
1998/09/18
   EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
1998/09/01
   EP - COLLINS Kenneth D. (PES) appointed as rapporteur in ENVI
1998/09/01
   EP - WYNN Terence (PES) appointed as rapporteur in BUDG
1998/07/22
   EP - Committee opinion
Documents
1998/07/21
   EP - Committee opinion
Documents
1998/07/20
   EP - Committee opinion
Documents
1998/07/08
   EP - Committee opinion
Documents
1998/06/24
   EC - Legislative proposal
1998/06/24
   EC - Legislative proposal published
1998/06/12
   EP - Committee opinion
Documents
1998/05/26
   EP - CORBETT Richard (PES) appointed as rapporteur in REGL
1998/04/28
   EP - MCNALLY Eryl Margaret (PES) appointed as rapporteur in ENER
1998/04/22
   EP - BOURLANGES Jean-Louis (PPE) appointed as rapporteur in CONT
1998/04/22
   EP - LENZ Marlene (PPE) appointed as rapporteur in AFET
1998/03/18
   EP - MULDER Jan (ELDR) appointed as rapporteur in AGRI
1998/02/25
   EP - CASSIDY Bryan M.D. (PPE) appointed as rapporteur in JURI
1997/10/06
   EP - AGLIETTA Maria Adelaide (Verts/ALE) appointed as rapporteur in INST

Documents

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      • date: 2005-01-07T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/registre/docs_autres_institutions/commission_europeenne/com/2004/0860/COM_COM(2004)0860_EN.pdf title: COM(2004)0860 url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!DocNumber&lg=EN&type_doc=COMfinal&an_doc=2004&nu_doc=860 title: EUR-Lex title: OJ C 065 17.03.2005, p. 0001-0050 E summary: PURPOSE: to present a report from the Commission on the activities of comitology committees in 2003. CONTENT: this report covers the activities of comitology committees during the year 2003 and follows the basic structure of the previous report covering the year 2002. It contains an introductory Section 1, which looks at the legal nature and role of the committees in question, the state of implementation of Decision 1999/468/EC, the European Parliament's right of scrutiny, referrals to the Council and wider developments (e.g. Convention on the Future of Europe and enlargement). This is followed by a horizontal overview of committees' activities in Section 2 that looks at the number of committees and types of procedures, the number of meetings and the number of opinions and instruments. Lastly, there is an Annex with detailed statistics regarding the individual comitology committees, organized according to the different departments of the Commission (presented as a Commission staff paper). This report maintains the improved transparency of the statistics in the Annex by listing all committees individually together with textual comments on their activities. type: Follow-up document body: EC
      • date: 2006-08-09T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/docs_autres_institutions/commission_europeenne/sec/2006/1065/COM_SEC(2006)1065_EN.pdf title: SEC(2006)1065 url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!DocNumber&lg=EN&type_doc=SECfinal&an_doc=2006&nu_doc=1065 title: EUR-Lex type: Document attached to the procedure body: EC
      • date: 2006-08-09T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/docs_autres_institutions/commission_europeenne/com/2006/0446/COM_COM(2006)0446_EN.pdf title: COM(2006)0446 url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!DocNumber&lg=EN&type_doc=COMfinal&an_doc=2006&nu_doc=446 title: EUR-Lex summary: PURPOSE: to report on the working of committees in 2005. CONTENT: this report covers the activities of the comitology committees which met during the course of 2005. Attached to the report is an Annex containing detailed statistics regarding the individual comitology committees. The Annex also provides textual comments on changes relating to a number of committees and on exceptional events relating to specific draft measures, such as unfavourable opinions, EP resolutions resulting from the exercise of the right of scrutiny and referrals to the Council. The report also examines inter-institutional negotiations on the revision of Council Decision 1999/468/EC, which is soon to be concluded. As a reminder, the purpose of the comitology committees is to assist the Commission in exercising its implementing powers . Comitology committees need to be distinguished from other committees and groups of experts set up by the Commission to assist it in exercising its right of initiative or in carrying out monitoring, coordination or co-operation tasks with the Member States. These consultative bodies, of which there are around 1 300, are not analysed in this report. The European Parliament’s right of scrutiny: The Commission is obliged to inform the European Parliament of work in progress in the Committees and to send it all draft implementing measures concerning basic legal acts which have been adopted in conformity with the co-decision procedure. In February 2000, the European Parliament and the Commission concluded an “Agreement on procedures for implementing Council Decision 1999/468/EC”. This was specifically designed to regulate the procedures for implementing the obligations incumbent on the Commission. Although, under the terms of the Agreement, the Commission has one month in which to forward a definitive draft implementing measure, in practice the Commission uploads the draft implementing measure into the register at the same time as they send it to the Member States. If a vote is launched by written procedure, without a committee meeting being held in accordance with the rules of Procedure, the same applies. Once the vote has taken place the Commission is instructed to complete a voting form, which indicates the global result of the vote in respect of the specific draft implementing measure. In cases where the draft implementing measure has been amended, it will be uploaded a second time into the register, together with the voting form, and sent to the European Parliament. In cases where the draft implementing measure remains unchanged, only the voting form is uploaded and transmitted to the European Parliament. The version of the draft implementing measure initially uploaded is then considered the final draft. Resolutions adopted by the European Parliament in 2005: In 2005, the European Parliament adopted two Resolutions, in which it claimed that the Commission exceeded the implementing powers conferred upon it when adopting specific implementing measures. In both cases they concerned environmental issues: waste and hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment. In both cases, the Commission defends its position and is waiting for a Court ruling on the matter. Review of transmissions to the European Parliament: In a 2005 Resolution, the Parliament called on the Commission to undertake a careful review of all transmissions of draft implementing measures since the register went into production. The result of a Commission review was accordingly forwarded to the Parliament in 2005. In cases where anomalies were detected, the Commission proposed an “ex-post” control, which gave the Parliamentary committees concerned the possibility to re-examine the implementing measures. The Commission also offered to repeal any measure the European Parliament requested – such as the end of life vehicles Directive. Further, the Commission implemented reinforced internal control mechanisms within its administrative procedures to avoid similar problems in the future. Referrals to the Council: In 2005, a total of 11 cases were referred to the Council. They occurred in four policy areas; Health and Consumer Protection; Environment; Europe Aid and Statistics. The eleven cases referred to the Council represent less than 0.5% of the total number of implementing measures adopted by the Commission under the management or regulatory procedures of which there were 2 637. The Commission points out that 10 referrals were draft Commission decisions regarding the authorisation to place genetically modified products on the market. The high concentration of GMO referrals can be attributed to the divided views of the Member States. Reform of the current comitology system: At the end of the Austrian Presidency in June 2006, the three institutions reached agreement modifying Council Decision 1999/468/EC and the introduction of new regulatory procedures with scrutiny. This new procedure will apply to implementing measures of a general scope and to non-essential elements of basic legal acts adopted under the co-decision procedure. The Parliament obtains the right to veto the substance of such implementing measures and, as a result, greatly improves its control powers over the implementing powers conferred on the Commission by comitology procedures. The Committees in figures: Transport/energy (38), enterprise (32), environment (32) and Agriculture (31) continue to have by far the largest number of committees. With 133 out of a total of 250 committees, these policy sectors alone account for more than half of all the committees. Commission efforts to stabilise the number of committees is beginning to bear fruit. Whilst the overall number of committees at the end of 2005 were slightly higher than in 2004, it still meets the Commission objective to limit the number of committees to around 250. type: Follow-up document body: EC
      • date: 2007-12-20T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/registre/docs_autres_institutions/commission_europeenne/com/2007/0842/COM_COM(2007)0842_EN.pdf title: COM(2007)0842 url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!DocNumber&lg=EN&type_doc=COMfinal&an_doc=2007&nu_doc=842 title: EUR-Lex summary: In accordance with Decision 1999/468/EC, the Commission presents its annual report on the working of committees for 2006. It contains general comments on the development of the comitology system, a horizontal overview of committees’ activities and an Annex with detailed statistics regarding the individual comitology committees, arranged according to the different departments of the Commission. 2006 was marked by significant reform of the comitology procedure . Council Decision 2006/512/EC amending Council Decision 1999/468/EC was adopted on 17 July 2006 and entered into force on 23 July of the same year. The amendment to Council Decision 1999/468/EC is intended to meet the longstanding requests by the European Parliament to improve its rights to scrutinise implementation of legislative acts adopted under the co-decision procedure. The amendment introduces a “regulatory procedure with scrutiny” (PRAC), which is added to the existing procedures (advisory, management, regulatory and safeguard). In a joint statement, the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission agreed on a list of basic legal acts that must be urgently brought into line with the PRAC. The 26 corresponding proposals for this priority alignment were adopted by the Commission on 22 December 2006. All other basic legal acts adopted under the co-decision procedure, which are not listed in the joint statement of July 2006, also have to be aligned. The Commission has committed to reviewing all existing legal acts and, whenever necessary, to make relevant proposals for their alignment before the end of 2007. The October 2000 bilateral (Commission/European Parliament) agreement on procedures for implementing the Comitology Decision has to be revised to be brought into line with the statement on transparency/updated register, the new regulatory procedure with scrutiny and, whenever possible, to streamline current arrangements. The revision of this agreement is foreseen before the end of 2007. As in previous reports, this report gives global figures on formal opinions delivered by the committees and the subsequent implementing measures (legal acts, administrative and financing decisions) adopted by the Commission. These figures describe the concrete “output” of the committees. The total number of opinions delivered by the committees in 2006 was 2 933 (compared with 2 582 in 2005), and the number of implementing measures adopted by the Commission was 2 862 (compared with 2 654 in 2005). The large number of implementing measures adopted in certain policy sectors – Agriculture (1 576), Health and Consumer Protection (328), EuropeAid (297), Research (212) and Information Society (73) – again reflects the intensity of work delegated to the Commission in these areas via the comitology procedures. When compared with the previous year, a significant increase can be noted for EuropeAid (124 in 2005), whereas a decrease can be noted in the sector of Enterprise and Industry (10 in 2006 compared with 55 in 2005) and of Taxation and Customs Union (7 in 2006 compared with 47 in 2005). type: Follow-up document body: EC
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