Rulemaking by the European
Commission
The New System for
Delegation of Powers
Edited by Carl Fredrik
Bergström and Dominique Ritleng
The last few years have
seen major reforms to the delegation of powers and post-delegation supervision
of the European Commission. In light of these reforms, Rulemaking by the
European Commission: The New System for Delegation of Powers assesses whether
the new system has really affected the old doctrine of delegation of powers,
and if so, how? Specific questions answered include: have the objectives of the
reform been achieved and what were these objectives? How does the new system
affect the division of functions between the institutions of the EU and the
institutional balance? Has this new system affected the relationship between
the EU and its Member States, and if so, how does it concern its citizens?
Presented by an
interdisciplinary group of experts who have actively followed or participated
in the process of reform, the book is structured in four parts: (1) the
political and historical context in which the rule-making takes place, (2) the
operation and functioning of the system before and after the reform, (3) the
legal substance of a new framework for rule-making and the emerging case law
from the Court of Justice of the EU, and (4) the procedural dimension,
including the legal preconditions for non-institutional actors to participate.
