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and controlled by ‘comitology’ committees composed of civil servants from the administrations of the Member States … the EP this most recent reform of comitology is characterised as a great breakthrough in parliamentary control over EU … question whether the latest Decision on Comitology actually does alleviate the current accountability deficits of comitology. …
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Comitology committees are often accused of not being accountable. This paper aims to provide building blocks to analyze …
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Over the past five decades the European Parliament (EP) has moved from being a largely consultative assembly to being a genuine co-legislature. The growth in the EPs powers was accompanied by a revaluation of its Standing Committees. It is in these committees, the legislative backbone of the EP,...
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States and the Parliament delegate policy authority to the Commission and design ex-post control procedures (i.e. Comitology …
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This paper applies a principal-agent model of delegation, agency and agenda setting to the 1996 intergovernmental conference and the Treaty of Amsterdam, in order to understand both the delegation of powers to supranational organizations in the new Treaty, and the efforts of such organizations...
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In the second half of the nineties, a number of EU Member States went through intense public controversies over agro-food biotechnology. These controversies occurred almost synchronously, brought about parallel issue-framings and actor-constellations, led national governments to adopt...
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