New Comitology Register and Register of delegated and implementing acts have been launched

On October 28, the European Commission launched a new Comitology Register and Register of delegated and implementing acts. 

The European Commission adopts every year around 1600 implementing acts, through a procedure that involves committees made up of Member State representatives (“comitology” committees). There are around 250 such committees active, across all policy areas. The work of these committees, clearly framed by Regulation 182/2011, has been documented since 2008 in the Comitology Register, with an older Register covering the period 2002-2008. 

The existing Register was becoming technologically old, isolated from all other IT tools in the Commission, and not very user-friendly. Against this background, and inspired by the success of the Interinstitutional Register of Delegated Acts launched in 2017, it was decided to completely revamp the Comitology Register and to include implementing acts in the scope of the Register of Delegated Acts. 



The work can be divided into three main strands:

• A new public website to document the work of the committees, replacing the current public interface of the Comitology Register
• An extension of scope of the current public Interinstitutional Register of Delegated Acts, in order to allow it to also provide information about Implementing Acts
• A new back-office application for managing and processing the comitology workflow, replacing the current back-end of the Comitology Register

While the last one is an internal Commission tool crucial to alimenting the first two, it is the first two ones that have a relevance for the public. Public access to the information in the Register has become easier and more user-friendly. Moreover, timelines with the evolution of implementing acts from planning to publication are now available, a novelty compared to the previous situation. Delegated and implementing acts are, for the first time, accessible in a single place, thereby offering an integrated view over the work of the Commission in these areas.