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Your search for "Committee" produced 44 items.
| 1. Commission seeks committee changes | July 15, 2010 |
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The European Commission is looking to change the rules that govern the hundreds of committees that implement EU legislation. Historically, there have been three types of... |
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| 2. New-look Parliament carves up the top jobs | July 23, 2009 |
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Liberals take control of two financial committees and Germans to lead legislative committees. Members of the new European Parliament went into their first plenary meeting... |
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| 3. Parliament to choose committee chairs | July 15, 2009 |
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MEPs head into vote that should see Germans, Britons and Italians gain influence. Having elected their president and vice-presidents for the next two and a half years, MEPs... | |
| 4. Laying the foundations for financial supervision reform | May 14, 2009 |
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Commission to announce details of new EU bodies; States divided over de Larosière proposals. Details of European Commission plans for the reform of financial... |
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| 5. Reforms aim to cut inter-committee controversy | March 12, 2009 |
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Parliament preparesfor its next term; proposals face competing agendas. The European Parliament should agree changes to the workings and structure of its committees this... |
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| 6. EU moves to free hands of financial regulators | January 26, 2009 |
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Commission moves to simplify decision-making processes and to provide funding.
The European Commission today moved to enhance the supervisory framework within which... | |
| 7. Civil liberties committee in power tussle | November 13, 2008 |
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Committee powers could be changed; final decisions to be taken next year. The civil liberties committee of the European Parliament looks like being the biggest casualty of... | |
| 8. MEP warns of reduced role for budget control committee | November 6, 2008 |
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Downgrading committee ‘would send wrong signal'; reform plans to be presented in December. The chairman of the European Parliament's budgetary control committee has warned... |
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| 9. ...and sensible thinking | October 9, 2008 |
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A climate-change committee fails to evolve. A working group in the European Parliament has been discussing possible reforms of the committees for the next parliament's term.... | |
| 10. Parliament postpones vote on carbon emissions from cars | September 4, 2008 |
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Industry committee members split over targets and timetables. A decisive vote by the European Parliament's environment committee on a law to reduce carbon emissions from... | |
| 11. Borrell accused of 'centralising' assembly power | March 9, 2006 |
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Hans-Gert Pöttering, chairman of the European Parliament's largest group, the EPP-ED, has poured cold water on plans by Josep Borrell to reform the assembly's working... | |
| 12. Denmark takes a closer look at EU laws | March 17, 2005 |
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ANEW way of handling EU matters has been introduced in the Danish parliament, the Folketing. Formerly, it was primarily the European affairs committee of the Folketing which... | |
| 13. Committee plan for multi-annual budget debate | September 9, 2004 |
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THE European Parliament is set to create a temporary committee to provide a counterweight to the Council of Ministers in the heated debate over the EU's next multi-annual... | |
| 14. Parliament shake-up spills over to REACH | July 1, 2004 |
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EXAMINATION by the European Parliament of plans to overhaul chemicals regulation has been thrown into uncertainty as a result of the elections. The proposal from the... | |
| 15. Poor visitor access ‘undermines Parliament transparency' | April 1, 2004 |
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INADEQUATE access for visitors to European Parliament committees is undermining the assembly's status as the most transparent EU institution, Brussels-based lobbying groups... | |
| 16. Environment committee wins power battle in EP shake-up | October 23, 2003 |
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THE European Parliament's powerful environment committee has won a battle to retain most of its powers during the assembly's next five-year term. It had been under threat of... | |
| 17. Parliament curtails paper-chase to zoom in on more crucial business | July 25, 2002 |
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THE European Parliament is slashing the time it spends issuing reports on hundreds of routine EU documents in a bid to focus more of its scarce resources on scrutinising... | |
| 18. Huhne: securities group 'to lose powers after four years' | September 20, 2001 |
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MEP Chris Huhne has given details for the first time of the fledgling deal emerging from talks between deputies and Internal Market Commissioner Frits Bolkestein over the... | |
| 19. Totally gone to seed | February 1, 2001 |
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The complexity of the EU's various committee systems is such that occasionally some groups seem to be forgotten altogether. One - not exactly hugely important - panel, the... | |
| 20. Spotlight falls on scientific committees | April 13, 2000 |
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CONTRARY to popular belief, the scientists who provide EU policy-makers with advice on public health issues do not operate in an ivory tower. Although many of the studies... | |
