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CustomerServicesDepartment,MacmillanDistributionLtd,Houndmills,Basingstoke,HampshireRG21 6XS,England The EU Comitology System in Theory and Practice Keeping an Eye on the Commission? Jens Blom-Hansen Professor,DepartmentofPoliticalScience,AarhusUniversity,Denmark ©JensBlom-Hansen2011 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2011 978-0-230-24142-8 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6-10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorhasassertedhisrighttobeidentified astheauthorofthisworkinaccordancewiththeCopyright, DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Firstpublished2011by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN PalgraveMacmillanintheUKisanimprintofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills,Basingstoke, HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanintheUSisadivisionofStMartin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabovecompanies andhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnitedStates, theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN 978-1-349-31715-8 ISBN 978-0-230-35326-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230353268 Thisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfully managedandsustainedforestsources.Logging,pulpingandmanufacturing processesareexpectedtoconformtotheenvironmentalregulationsofthe countryoforigin. AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Blom-Hansen,Jens. TheEUcomitologysystemintheoryandpractice:keepinganeyeon theCommission?/JensBlom-Hansen. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN 978-1-349-31715-8 1. EuropeanCommission—Committees. 2. Decisionmaking— EuropeanUnioncountries. 3. Delegatedlegislation—EuropeanUnion countries. 4. Legislativeoversight—EuropeanUnion countries. I. Title. JN33.5.B562011 341.242(cid:2)226—dc23 2011029567 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 Contents ListofFigures vi ListofTables vii ListofBoxes ix ForewordandAcknowledgements x 1 Introduction 1 2 ACrackpotConcept 15 3 ADelegationPerspectiveonComitology 34 4 TheOriginsofComitology 53 5 WhatisatStake?ACaseStudyofthe2006Comitology Reform 72 6 ComitologyPreferencesinDailyLegislation 94 7 ComitologyAcrossPolicyAreas 118 8 TheComitologySysteminDailyPractice 143 9 Conclusion 176 Notes 193 Literature 197 Index 212 v List of Figures 3.1 Modellingthechoiceofadministrativeregimefor commonpoliciesasapurecoordinationgamenested withina‘battleofthesexes’game 39 3.2 Understandingthedailyworkingsofthecomitology system 50 6.1 Regulationsanddirectivesproposedandenactedunder the1999comitologydecision(no.ofacts) 104 vi List of Tables 2.1 Treatyregulationofthecomitologysystemovertime 22 2.2 Thelistofcomitologyproceduresovertime 24 2.3 Anexampleofacomitologyprovisioninadirective 27 2.4 Standardrulesofprocedureforcomitologycommittees (excerpts) 28 2.5 Thecomitologysystemaccordingtoinstitutional affiliationintheCommissionin2008 31 3.1 Overviewofhypotheses,dataandchapters 50 5.1 Whatisatstake?Manifestationsofinstitutionalinterests inthe2006reformofthecomitologysystem 90 5.2 Instrumentstopursueinstitutionalinterestsinthe2006 reformofthecomitologysystem 92 6.1 Comitologypreferences,1999–2006:Commissionversus Council 108 6.2 Comitologypreferences,1999–2006:Commissionversus EuropeanParliament 109 6.3 Comitologypreferences,1999–2006:European ParliamentversusCouncil 110 6.4 ComparisonacrosstimeofCommission–Council agreementoncomitologyprocedures(percent) 111 6.5 Purecasesofinter-institutionaldisagreementon comitologyunderthe1999comitologydecision 113 7.1 Comitologyproceduresacrosspolicyareas,1999–2006 (percent) 119 7.2 Summarystatisticsonvariablesusedinlogisticregression models 134 7.3 Logisticregressionanalysisofthechoiceofcomitology overnocomitology 136 7.4 Probabilityofchoosingcomitologyovernocomitology forselectedtypesofconflictandcomplexity 138 7.5 Logisticregressionanalysisofthechoiceofstringencyof comitologycontrol 139 7.6 Probabilityofchoosingstringentcomitologyforselected typesofconflictandcomplexity 141 8.1 TheBrussels–Copenhagencomitologyconnection 154 vii viii ListofTables 8.2 Descriptivestatisticsonallvariablesusedinregression analysesinChapter8 157 8.3 Comitologycommitteesscoringlowandhighvalueson theissuecomplexitymeasure 160 8.4 RegressionanalysisofthediscretionoftheDanish comitologyrepresentatives 161 8.5 Factoranalysisofthebehaviouraldispositionsofthe Danishcomitologyrepresentatives 164 8.6 Regressionanalysisofthebehaviouraldispositionsofthe Danishcomitologyrepresentatives 164 8.7 FactoranalysisoftheDanishcomitologyrepresentatives’ evaluationofthenatureofmeetingsintheircommittee 168 8.8 FactoranalysisoftheDanishrepresentatives’evaluation oftheCommission’srolesinthecomitologycommittees 170 8.9 RegressionanalysisoftheCommission’sbehaviourinthe comitologycommittees 172 List of Boxes 6.1 DatasetoncomitologyinEUregulationsand directives,1999–2006 104 8.1 TheDanishcomitologysurvey 149 ix
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