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Comitology in the European Union refers to a process by which EU law is implemented or adjusted by the European Commission working in conjunction with committees of national representatives (at civil service level) from the EU member states, colloquially called "comitology committees". These are chaired by the European Commission.[1] The official term for the process is committee procedure.[2] Comitology committees are part of the EU's broader system of committees that assist in the making, adoption, and implementation of EU laws.[3]
The Lisbon Treaty reconfigured comitology system, distinguishing between:
- "delegated acts" (where the Council and the Parliament empower the Commission to adjust and amend the details of legislation they have adopted, subject to them not vetoing them), and
- "implementing acts", where the Commission may adopt measures to implement the detail of the legislation (working with "comitology" committees).
This is codified in Articles 290 and 291 TFEU.
^Hardacre, Alan; Kaeding, Michael (September 2011). "Delegated and implementing acts: The new worlds of comitology – implications for European and national public administrations" (PDF). Eipascope. 1: 29–32. ISSN 1025-6253. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
^"European Court of Auditors: Misused English terminology in EU publications" (PDF).
^Rhinard, Mark (April 2002). "The democratic legitimacy of the European Union committee system". Governance. 15 (2): 185–210. doi:10.1111/1468-0491.00185.
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