REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL on the working of committees in 2022
Date: 2023-10-26
Institutions: European Commission, Secretariat-General
Subjects: EU control, activity report, comitology, committee (EU), official statistics, power of implementation

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   EUROPEAN COMMISSION  Brussels, 26.10.2023  COM(2023) 664 final  REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL on the working of committees in 2022 {SWD(2023) 340 final}  
 
 
REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND 
THE COUNCIL 

on the working of committees in 2022 

1. 

INTRODUCTION 

In line with Article 10(2) of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 laying down the rules and general 
principles  concerning  mechanisms  for  control  by  Member  States  of  the  Commission’s 
exercise  of  implementing  powers1  (the  ‘Comitology  Regulation’),  the  Commission  hereby 
presents its annual report on the working of committees in 2022. 

The  report  gives  an  overview  of  developments  in  2022  in  the  ‘comitology’  system,  which 
refers  to  the  committees  that  the  Commission  consults  on  draft  implementing  acts.  These 
committees  are  composed  of  representatives  of  the  Member  States,  chaired  by  the 
Commission, and they follow different operating procedures depending on the relevant basic 
act (cf. Table II).  

The report provides a summary of the committees’ activities and it is accompanied by a staff 
working document containing detailed statistics on the work of the individual committees for 
each  policy  sector2.  It  highlights  the  main  changes  and  trends  observed  on  an  annual  basis, 
presenting  overall  figures  on  meetings,  written  procedures,  opinions  delivered  (i.e.  positive, 
negative or no  opinion)  and acts  adopted.  It  also  gives an overview of  cases referred to  the 
appeal  committee  and  of  objections  from  the  European  Parliament  and  the  Council  under 
Article  11  of  the  Comitology  Regulation.  Information  is  also  provided  on  the  measures 
adopted under the regulatory procedure with scrutiny. 

2. 

OVERVIEW OF DEVELOPMENTS IN THE COMITOLOGY SYSTEM IN 2022 

2.1. 

General developments 

The comitology committees operated in 2022 under the procedures set out in the Comitology 
Regulation,  i.e.  advisory  (Article  4)  and  examination  (Article  5),  as  well  as  under  the 
regulatory procedure with scrutiny set out in Article 5a of the Comitology Decision3. 

With the gradual lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, it became possible to more regularly hold 
physical  (or  hybrid)  meetings  of  comitology  committees.  All  meetings,  independent  of  the 
form in which they took place (in physical presence, remotely or in a hybrid format) are listed 
as  meetings  in  the  Comitology  Register4  and  the  summary  record  specifies  the  form  of  the 
meeting. 

OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 13. 

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2   As covered by the Commission departments dealing with the respective policy areas. 
3   Council  Decision  1999/468/EC  of  28  June  1999  laying  down  the  procedures  for  the  exercise  of 

implementing powers conferred on the Commission (OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23). 

4         https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/comitology-register/screen/home 

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The Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making of 13 April 20165 recalls the need to 
align  acts  still  referring  to  the  regulatory  procedure  with  scrutiny  (RPS)  to  the  legal 
framework  introduced  by  the  Treaty  of  Lisbon.  Interinstitutional  discussions  continued  in 
2022 on aligning the remaining basic acts, on the basis of the Commission’s 2016 proposals. 
As to the general alignment proposal6, after partial agreement reached in 2019, the remaining 
part covering 104 acts is still subject to further discussions as the co-legislators have so far not 
been able agree on whether to align the RPS acts to delegated acts or to implementing acts.  
In the meantime, 25 acts have been either repealed by other legislative acts or had their RPS 
provisions  aligned  to  either  delegated  or  implementing  acts  in  the  context  of  legislative 
amendments made to the respective basic acts. These acts no longer need to be aligned in the 
context of this proposal. 

On the specific alignment proposal concerning the area of justice7, agreement could be found 
in 2022. With its legislative resolution of 18 October 2022, the European Parliament endorsed 
the Council’s position at first reading, without futher amendments. The final text, which was 
published  on  25  October8,  concerns  only  the  alignment9  of  Regulation  (EC)  No  805/2004 
creating a European Enforcement Order for uncontested claims, as the other two acts of the 
original proposal were repealed in the meantime. 

As regards the Commission proposal of 14 February 201710 aiming to amend the Comitology 
Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 concerning the appeal committee, and notably to address ‘no 
opinion’  situations  in  sensitive  areas11,  no  progress  was  possible  in  2022  as  the  respective 
positions of the co-legislators remained far apart. 

The Commission continued to make draft texts for important delegated and implementing acts 
public  for  a  4-week  period,  allowing  stakeholders  to  submit  comments.  In  2022,  72  draft 
implementing  acts  were  published  for  public  feedback  on  the  ‘Have  your  say’  website12, 
which is slightly less than the 85 draft implementing acts that were published in 2021.  

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6  

7 

Interinstitutional Agreement between the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the 
European Commission on Better Law-Making of 13 April 2016 (OJ L 123, 12.5.2016, p. 1), see point 27. 
Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the  Council adapting a number of legal acts 
providing for the use of the regulatory procedure with scrutiny to Articles 290 and 291 of the Treaty on the 
Functioning of the European Union, COM (2016) 799 final. 
Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council adapting a number of legal acts in 
the  area  of  Justice  providing  for  the  use  of  the  regulatory  procedure  with  scrutiny  to  Article  290  of  the 
Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (COM (2016) 798). 

8       OJ L275, 25.10.2022, p30.  https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L:2022:275:TOC 
9  

The only provision in the Regulation providing for the use of the regulatory  procedure with scrutiny was 
amended to provide for the use of delegated acts, to amend the annexes to update the standard forms. 
10   Proposal  for  a  Regulation  of the  European  Parliament  and of  the  Council  amending  Regulation  (EU)  No 
182/2011  laying  down  the  rules  and  general  principles  concerning  mechanisms  for  control  by  Member 
States of the Commission’s exercise of implementing powers (COM (2017) 085 final). 

11   The Commission has proposed targeted amendments to the Comitology Regulation to avoid the occurrence 
of  a  situation  where  it  is  legally  obliged  to  take  an  authorisation  decision  in  the  absence  of  a  qualified 
majority  of  the  Member  States  taking  a  position  (either  in  favour  or  against)  in  the  committee/appeal 
committee.  Such  a  'no  opinion'  situation  is  in  the  Commission’s  view  particularly  problematic  when  it 
concerns politically sensitive matters of direct impact on citizens and businesses, for instance in the field of 
health and safety of humans, animals or plants. 

12   https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say_en  

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2.2. 

Case-law developments  

In its judgment of 14 July 2022 in Commission v Poland13, the Court confirmed the judgment 
of  the  General  Court  in  case  T-699/17.  The  case  was  about  the  transitional  period  and 
provisions  on  qualified  majority  voting  for  the  changeover  from  the  Treaty  of  Nice  to  the 
Treaty  of  Lisbon.  It  concerns  the  application  in  time  of  Article  3(2)  of  Protocol  36  of  the 
Treaty of Lisbon, which provides that, between 1 November 2014 and 31 March 2017, when 
an  act  is  to  be  adopted  by  qualified  majority,  a  Member  State  may  request  that    the  act  be 
adopted in accordance with the qualified majority applicable before 31 October 2014 (i.e. the 
qualified  majority  that  applied  prior  to  the  entry  into  force  of  the  Treaty  of  Lisbon).  
The dispute concerned whether both the request from a Member State and the vote had to take 
place before 31 March 2017, or whether it was sufficient for the request from a Member State 
to be made before that date while the vote could take place afterwards. The General Court had 
ruled that it was sufficient that a Member State had made the request before 31 March 2017, 
and, upon appeal, the Court upheld the judgment of the General Court. 

As regards the transparency of the work of comitology committees, in joined cases T-371/20 
and  T-554/20  (Pollinis  France  v  Commission14), the  General  Court  examined  the  refusal  of 
the Commission to grant access to documents (under Regulation (EC) No 1049/200115) that 
indicate  the  individual  positions  of  the  Member  States  expressed  in  the  context  of  a 
comitology committee.  In its  judgment  of 14 September 2022, the General  Court  dismissed 
the  Commission’s  arguments  that  were  based  on  the  need  to  protect  the  ongoing  decision-
making  process  and  annulled  the  respective  Commission  decisions  refusing  access.  
The Commission subsequently lodged an appeal against the judgment. 

3. 

OVERVIEW OF ACTIVITIES 

The figures indicated in the following sections are all based on the findings presented in detail 
in the accompanying staff working document. 

3.1. 

Number of committees  

This report focuses exclusively on comitology committees, which are set up by the legislator 
to assist the Commission in its exercise of the implementing powers that have been conferred 
upon  it  by  basic  legal  acts.  Other  entities,  in  particular  expert  groups  set  up  by  the 
Commission itself, are not covered in this report.  

Table  I  presents  the  number  of  comitology  committees  that  existed  during  the  period  of  
1 January to 31 December 2022, with the figures for the previous year added for comparison.  

13   C-207/21 P, European Commission v Republic of Poland, ECLI:EU:C:2022:560. 
14   T-371/20 and T-554/20, Pollinis France v Commission, ECLI:EU:T:2022:556. 
15   Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2001 regarding 
public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, OJ L 145, 31.5.2001, p. 43. 

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TABLE I — TOTAL NUMBER OF COMMITTEES 

Commission department 

2021 

2022 

AGRI   (Agriculture and Rural Development 
BUDG   (Budget) 
CLIMA   (Climate Action) 
CNECT   (Communications Networks, Content and Technology) 
DEFIS   (Defence Industry and Space) 
DIGIT   (Informatics) 
EAC   (Education and Culture) 
ECFIN   (Economic and Financial Affairs) 
ECHO   (Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection) 
EMPL   (Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion) 
ENER   (Energy) 
ENV   (Environment) 
ESTAT   (Eurostat) 
FISMA   (Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union) 
FPI   (Service for Foreign Policy Instruments) 
GROW   (Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs) 
HOME   (Migration and Home Affairs) 
INTPA (International Partnerships)  
JUST   (Justice and Consumers) 
MARE   (Maritime Affairs and Fisheries) 
MOVE   (Mobility and Transport) 
NEAR   (Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations) 
OLAF   (European Anti-Fraud Office) 
REFORM (Structural Reform Support) 
REGIO (Regional and Urban Policy) 
RTD   (Research and Innovation) 
SANTE   (Health and Food Safety) 
SG   (Secretariat-General) * 
TAXUD   (Taxation and Customs Union) 
TRADE   (Trade) 
TOTAL: 

* Including the appeal committee 16 

12 
2 
5 
11 
13 
1 
4 
2 
2 
6 
14 
27 
2 
11 
1 
39 
20 
3 
28 
3 
33 
3 
1 
2 
0 
31 
33 
3 
28 
13 
353 

12 
2 
5 
15 
8 
0 
4 
2 
2 
5 
13 
26 
1 
11 
2 
38 
18 
3 
24 
3 
31 
2 
1 
1 
2 
17 
33 
3 
26 
12 
322 

In  2022,  there  were  322  comitology  committees  that  existed  during  the  year,  including  all 
committee configurations17. This represents a small decrease in the number of committees as 
compared to 2021 (when there were 353 comitology committees). This was mainly due to the 
abolition of a number of ‘old’  committees that had served under the previous  generation of 
Multiannual  Financial  Framework  (MFF)  programmes  and  funds18.  As  new  legislation 
entering into force in 2022 has created new committees in only a few cases, the number  of 
comitology committees decreased from  2021 and went  back to  the levels  recorded in  in  the 
years before 202119. 

16   The appeal committee is registered in the Comitology Register as a committee under the responsibility of 

the Secretariat-General. In practice, however, it is managed by the departments concerned. 
In a few basic acts the legislator has provided for specific configurations of the committee. 

17  
18   These  were  phased out during  2021,  in  parallel  to  the  emergence of  ‘new’  committees  created  under  the 

new generation of MFF programmes and funds (2021-2027). 

19   2019: 318, 2020: 320 

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TABLE II — NUMBER OF COMMITTEES BY PROCEDURE 

Type of procedure 

Commission department 
AGRI 
BUDG 
CLIMA 
CNECT 
DEFIS 
DIGIT 
EAC 
ECFIN 
ECHO 
EMPL 
ENER 
ENV 
ESTAT 
FISMA 
FPI 
GROW 
HOME 
INTPA 
JUST 
MARE 

MOVE 

NEAR 

OLAF 

REFORM 

REGIO 

RTD 

SANTE 

SG* 

TAXUD 

TRADE 

TOTAL: 

Advisory 

Examination 

0 
0 
0 
1 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
1 
2 
0 
0 
0 
0 
2 
1 
0 
7 
0 

3 

0 

0 

1 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

3 

21 

8 
1 
1 
7 
1 
0 
3 
1 
2 
1 
7 
12 
0 
5 
2 
11 
15 
3 
11 
2 

13 

2 

1 

0 

0 

3 

12 

3 

10 

4 

141 

Regulatory 
with scrutiny 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
1 
0 
1 
0 
2 
0 
2 
0 
0 
2 
0 

1 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

9 

Multiple 
procedures 
4 
1 
4 
7 
7 
0 
1 
1 
0 
2 
4 
13 
1 
4 
0 
23 
2 
0 
4 
1 

14 

0 

0 

0 

2 

14 

21 

0 

16 

5 

TOTAL: 

12 
2 
5 
15 
8 
0 
4 
2 
2 
5 
13 
26 
1 
11 
2 
38 
18 
3 
24 
3 

31 

2 

1 

1 

2 

17 

33 

3 

26 

12 

151 

322 

* Including the appeal committee 

Table II shows a breakdown of the committees in 2022 by type of procedure under which they 
operated  (i.e.  advisory  procedure,  examination  procedure,  regulatory  procedure  with 
scrutiny).  Committees  with  multiple  procedures  have  been  separated  from  those  operating 
under a single procedure. 

3.2. 

Number of meetings and written procedures 

The  intensity  of  committees’  activity  is  primarily  defined  by  the  number  of  committee 
meetings and the number of written procedures20. These are presented in the following Table 
III. 

20   Committee  voting  can  take  place  at  a  regular  committee  meeting  or,  in  duly  justified  cases,  by  written 

procedure, in line with Article 3(5) of the Comitology Regulation. 

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TABLE III — NUMBER OF MEETINGS AND WRITTEN PROCEDURES 

Commission department 

Number of 
committees  

Meetings 

Written procedures 

2021 

2022 

2021 

2022 

AGRI 
BUDG 
CLIMA 
CNECT 
DEFIS 
DIGIT 
EAC 
ECFIN 
ECHO 
EMPL 
ENER 
ENV 
ESTAT 
FISMA 
FPI 
GROW 
HOME 
INTPA 
JUST 
MARE 
MOVE 
NEAR 

OLAF 

REFORM 

REGIO 

RTD 

SANTE 

SG* 

TAXUD 

TRADE 
TOTAL: 

12 
2 
5 
15 
8 
0 
4 
2 
2 
5 
13 
26 
1 
11 

2 
38 
18 
3 
24 
3 
31 
2 
1 

1 

2 

17 

33 

3 

26 

12 
322 

121 
6 
5 
13 
36 
0 
8 
2 
8 
0 
10 
24 
3 
14 

3 
33 
41 
19 
30 
4 
61 
7 
0 

0 

1 

41 

93 

6 

39 

18 
646 

100 
4 
5 
15 
46 
0 
11 
14 
7 
0 
18 
23 
3 
10 

9 
30 
49 
18 
21 
3 
40 
19 
0 

1 

3 

62 

95 

12 

31 

24 
673 

104 
2 
8 
21 
12 
0 
12 
0 
8 
0 
0 
20 
16 
17 
0 
42 
38 
168 
6 
16 
37 
41 
0 

0 

7 

148 

634 

10 

23 

70 
1476 

52 
0 
3 
30 
7 
0 
17 
0 
12 
0 
8 
10 
7 
23 
6 
78 
60 
14 
6 
10 
20 
48 
0 

2 

3 

355 

813 

6  

36 

49 
1675 

* Including meetings/written procedures of the appeal committee 

There  were  673  meetings  in  2022,  which  is  slightly  more  than  in  2021  (646),  with  1675 
written procedures, which is also higher than the year before (1476). 

3.3. 

Number of opinions and implementing acts 

This report also gives an indication of the tangible output of the committees, which is another 
important  indicator  of  the  level  of  activity.  Table  IV  presents  overall  figures  on  the  formal 
opinions delivered by the committees and the subsequent  implementing acts  adopted by the 
Commission21, also  flagging  the cases  where either the European Parliament  or the Council 
have exercised their right of scrutiny under Article 11 of the Comitology Regulation. 

21 

The number of opinions and implementing acts/measures in any given year can differ; the reasons for this 
are explained in the introduction to the accompanying staff working document. 

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TABLE IV — NUMBER OF OPINIONS AND IMPLEMENTING ACTS ADOPTED22 

Commission department 

Opinions23 

Implementing acts 
adopted 

AGRI 
BUDG 
CLIMA 
CNECT 
DEFIS 
DIGIT 
EAC 
ECFIN 
ECHO 
EMPL 
ENER 
ENV 
ESTAT 
FISMA 
FPI 
GROW 
HOME 
INTPA 
JUST 
MARE 
MOVE 
NEAR 

OLAF 

REFORM 

REGIO 

RTD 

SANTE 

SG* 

TAXUD 

TRADE 
TOTAL: 

2021 
101 
2 
9 
43 
19 
0 
8 
1 
8 
0 
3 
24 
16 
22 
0 
62 
67 
168 
9 
16 
64 
40 
0 

0 

7 

149 

818 

13 

50 

76 
1782 

2022 
103 
0 
4 
31 
12 
0 
21 

17 
13 
0 
30 
25 
10 
25 

5 
85 
58 
106 
13 
13 
48 
110  

0 
2 
3 

354 

819 

13 

43 

85 
2048 

2021 
100 
1 
9 
41 
14 
0 
8 
0 
9 
0 
0 
15  
15 
         18 
0 
31 
36 
167  
8 
9 
61 
40 

0 

0 

5 
110 

775 

2 

47 

71 
1592 

2022 
100 
0 
5 
30 
16 
0 
24 
17 
13 
0 
21 
22 
9 
22 
 4 
73 
49 
104 
9 
19 
55 
108 

0 

1 

5 
333 

907 

0 

40 

86 
2072 

Parliament resolutions 
/Council decisions  
(Art. 11) 
2022 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 

0 

0 

0 

10  
(European Parliament) 
0 

0 

0 

10 

*Including  opinions  delivered  by  the  appeal  committee.  To  avoid  double-counting,  adopted  implementing  acts  passing 
through  the  appeal  committee  are  counted  towards  the  first-level  committees  in  the  respective  policy  areas.  
Detailed information on the work of the appeal committee is provided in Table V. 

The committees delivered  2048 opinions24  in  2022, which is an increase  compared to  2021 
(1782),  indicating  a  higher  workload.  Similarly,  the  number  of  2072  implementing  acts 
adopted following a committee procedure was also considerably higher than in the previous 
year (1592).  

22   As regards adopted implementing acts, the indication of Commission services (policy areas) means that the 
acts in question were prepared (discussed and/or voted on) in a committee managed by this Commission 
service; in some cases the actual adoption of the act was formally ensured by another Commission service. 
23   A  vote  resulting  in  ‘no  opinion’  is  counted  in  the  total  number  of  opinions  as  this  is  one  of  the possible 

outcomes of the vote in the committee. 

24   The  overwhelming  majority of  the  votes  was  positive,  whereas  a  ‘no  opinion’  was  delivered  in  33  cases 

(excluding those at the level of the appeal committee). There were no instances of a negative vote. 

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The  European  Parliament  and  the  Council  have  a  right  of  scrutiny  under  Article  11  of  the 
Comitology Regulation. In 2022, the European Parliament adopted 10 resolutions on the basis 
of  Article  11  of  the  Comitology  Regulation,  all  of  which  concerned  acts  of  DG  SANTE.  
The Council did not exercise its right to oppose a draft measure under this provision in 2022. 

3.4.  Meetings of the appeal committee 

As  indicated  in  Table  V  below,  the  appeal  committee  met  11  times  during  2022,  and 
discussed  13  draft  implementing  acts  which  the  Commission  referred  to  it.  Using  written 
consultations for 6 draft acts and voting in a meeting on 7, it delivered a ‘no opinion’ in all 13 
cases25.  The  Commission  adopted  all  13  implementing  acts  following  the appeal  committee 
vote, but 2 of these adoptions fell into 2023.  

TABLE V — ACTIVITY OF THE APPEAL COMMITTEE 

Number of meetings/written consultations 
of the appeal committee 

Number of opinions26 of 
the appeal committee 

Commission department 

MOVE 
SANTE 
TRADE 
TOTAL: 

2021 
1/0 

  4 /10 
1/ 0 
6/10 

2022 
0/0 
10/6  
1/0 
11/6 

2021 
1 (0) 

10 (10) 
1 (1) 
12 

2022 
0 (0) 

12 (12) 
1 (1) 
13 (13) 

Number of 
acts adopted 
following an 
opinion of the 
appeal 
committee 
2021 
1 
10 
1 
12 

10 
1 
11 

2022 
0 

3.5. 

Use of the regulatory procedure with scrutiny  

The Comitology Regulation maintained the effects of the regulatory procedure with scrutiny 
for  the  purposes  of  existing  basic  acts  refering  to  it27.  This  procedure  can  no  longer  be 
introduced  into  new  legislation,  but  it  still  appears  in  many  existing  basic  acts  and  will 
continue  to  apply  under  those  acts  until  the  respective  empowerments  have  been  aligned  to 
empowerments for either delegated or implementing acts (as indicated in Section 2.1).  

In 2022, 68 measures were adopted according to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny (see 
Table VI below), which is identical to the figure in 2021 (68).  

The right to oppose acts under the regulatory procedure with scrutiny was not used in 2022 by 
either of the co-legislators. For comparison, in 2021, the European Parliament opposed twice 
28, whereas the Council did not use this right at all. 

25   Further details are available in the accompanying staff working document. 
26   The  term  ‘opinion’  also  includes  the  scenario  where  the  formal  outcome  is  a  ‘no  opinion’  meaning  that 
there is no required majority in either sense. The number of ‘no opinions’ is indicated in parentheses. 

27   Article 12, second paragraph of the Comitology Regulation. 
28   See details in SWD(2022)279, p.102. 

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TABLE  VI  —  NUMBER  OF  MEASURES  ADOPTED  ACCORDING  TO  THE  REGULATORY 
PROCEDURE WITH SCRUTINY  

Commission department 

AGRI 

BUDG 

CLIMA 

CNECT 

DEFIS 

DIGIT 

EAC 

ECFIN 

ECHO 

EMPL 

ENER 

ENV 

ESTAT 

FISMA 

FPI 

GROW 

HOME 

INTPA 

JUST 

MARE 

MOVE 

NEAR 

OLAF 

REGIO 

REFORM 

RTD 

SANTE 

SG 

TAXUD 

TRADE 

TOTAL: 

Regulatory procedure 
with scrutiny - 
measures 
adopted 
0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

2 

2 

2 

0 

7 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

55 

0 

0 

0 

68 

European 
Parliament 
opposed adoption 
of draft measures  

Council opposed 
adoption of draft 
measures  

0 
0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

0 

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CONCLUSION 

The activity of committees continued in 2022 with increased intensity. Overall there were 322 
committees  at  work,  which  held  673  meetings,  carried  out  1675  written  procedures  and 
delivered  2048  opinions.  Enabling  Member  States  to  exercise  their  control  powers  in 
accordance  with  the  Comitology  Regulation,  the  committees  provide  valuable  assistance  to 
the Commission in  exercising the implementing powers conferred on it by the co-legislators. 

The European Parliament and the Council are invited to take note of this report. 

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