21st Century Comitology: Implementing Committees in the Enlarged European Union

21st Century Comitology brings together an international group of experts, from scientific scholars to policy makers, who provide an up-to-date and comprehensive account of comitology today. The book looks at comitology - the system of committees working with the European Commission to implement EU legislation - from a range of different perspectives; examining the theoretical foundations, the past evolution, the current practice and the future challenges of the system. Individual chapters are devoted to recent developments in key sectors (such as financial services regulation or the authorisation of genetically modified organisms), whilst other authors address the respective roles of the European Parliament and the European Court of Justice in developing the rules of the system. A major theme of the book is recent changes to comitology; with authors addressing the outcome of the 2006 legislative reform, the debates about comitology in the context of the current round of Treaty reform, and the impact that enlargement with the arrival of 12 new Member States has had on the system. With respect to comitology reform, the book also contains contributions from insiders providing accounts from the perspective of the Parliament, Council and Commission.