International Law

Comitology, Interinstitutional Agreement between Commission and Parliament

By Bartolus

More excitement on the comitology front!

A while back we noted the new procedure called the "regulatory procedure with scrutiny" introduced by Council decision 2006/512/EC (and see here for an update).

The European Parliament and the Commission have recently concluded a new agreement on the procedures for implementing Council Decision 1999/468/EC as amended by Council Decision 2006/512/EC (see here for a consolidated version of Council Decision 1999/468/EC incorporating those amendments). The purpose of the agreement is to set out how the two institutions will work together in the area of comitology.

This new agreement replaces the 2000 Agreement on the same subject and the 1994 Modus vivendi.

It complements the 2006 Framework Agreement between the Parliament and the Commission which can be found here and here (for its Annex 1) and here (for its Annex 2). For some unaccountable reason, the new agreement on comitology refers to the old, 2001 version of the Framework Agreement and the wrong annex.

Full post as published by EU Law Blog on June 10, 2008 (boomark / email).