Posted on Wednesday 11th January 2012
Book discussion with the authors and the practitioners Antoine Buchet from the European Commission and Katrin Huber from the European Parliament secretariat on Changing Rules of Delegation: a Contest for Power in Comitology by Adrienne Héritier, Catherine Moury, Carina Bischoff and Carl- Fredrik Bergström, Oxford University Press, forthcoming
Book Abstract
In this book we analyze the conditions and processes of change of the rules that delegate decision-making power to the Commission’s implementing powers under comitology. We focus on the role of the European Parliament in this process of delegation and use a rational institutionalist approach to account for why the Commission, the Council, and increasingly the Parliament, did or did not choose to delegate decision-making to the Commission. If they chose delegation, they still have to determine under which institutional rule comitology should operate. We conduct a qualitative longitudinal study tracing how the Parliament became a co-equal partner with the Council under delegated acts. In the quantitative empirical part we give a statistical overview of the number and areas of legislation and delegation respectively, and shows how comitology decisions developed over time and according to policy areas. We proceed to a quantitative test of our hypotheses in environmental policy), taxation and agricultural policy.
The discussion took place in Villa Malafrasca, EUI on January 20, 2012, 11.00 a.m.
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