REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL on the working of committees in 2023
Date: 2024-10-22
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, 22.10.2024  COM(2024) 465 final  REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL on the working of committees in 2023 {SWD(2024) 235 final}  
 
 
REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE 
COUNCIL 

on the working of committees in 2023 

1. 

INTRODUCTION 

The Commission presents its annual report on the working of committees in 2023 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 report gives an overview of developments in 2023 in the ‘comitology’ system, which refers to 
the  committees  that  the  Commission  consults  on  draft  implementing  acts. These  committees  are 
composed of Member States’ representatives and chaired by the Commission. They follow different 
operating procedures depending on the relevant basic legal act empowering the Commission to adopt 
implementing acts (see Table II).  

The report provides a summary of the committees’ activities. 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 provides an overview of cases referred to the appeal committee and the 
exercise of the right of scrutiny by 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 2023 

2.1. 

General developments 

In 2023, comitology committees continued to operate under the procedures set out in the Comitology 
Regulation, i.e. the advisory procedure (Article 4) and the examination procedure (Article 5), as well 
as the regulatory procedure with scrutiny set out in Article 5a3 of the Comitology Decision4.  

All meetings, regardless of their format (in person, remote or hybrid), are listed as meetings in the 
Comitology Register5, and the summary record specifies the format of the meeting. 

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OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 13. 
As covered by the Commission departments dealing with the respective policy areas. 
For further details on the use of this procedure, see Section 3.5 
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). 

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As  to  the  alignment  of  acts  still  referring  to  the  regulatory  procedure  with  scrutiny  to  the  legal 
framework  introduced  by  the  Treaty  of  Lisbon,  in  2023,  interinstitutional  discussions  on  the 
Commission’s proposal6 did not achieve progress towards aligning the remaining basic acts.  

As  regards  the  Commission  proposal  of  14  February  20177  aiming  to  amend  the  Comitology 
Regulation  concerning  the  appeal  committee,  and  notably  to  address  ‘no  opinion’  situations  in 
sensitive  areas8,  no  progress  was  possible  in  2023,  given  that  the  respective  positions  of  the 
European Parliament and the Council (the ‘co-legislators’) remained far apart. 

The Commission continued to make draft texts for important implementing acts public for a 4-week 
period,  allowing  stakeholders  to  submit  comments.  In  2023,  73  draft  implementing  acts  were 
published for public feedback on the ‘Have your say’ website9, which is almost identical to the 2022 
figure (72).  

2.2. 

Case-law developments  

As regards the transparency of the work of comitology committees, in case T-201/21 (Covington & 
Van Vooren vs European Commission), the General Court upheld the line it set out the previous year 
in joined cases T-371/20 and T-554/20 (Pollinis France v Commission10, both cases currently under 
appeal). The General Court was invited again to examine the Commission’s refusal to grant access 
to documents (under Regulation (EC) No 1049/200111) that indicate individual votes of the Member 
States cast in the context of a comitology committee. In its judgment of 14 June 2023, the General 
Court decided that votes by Member States within a comitology committee must be considered as 
being cast ‘as part of deliberation and preliminary consultations’ within the Commission concerning 
the draft implementing act in question. Therefore, the exception to access to documents laid down 
in the second subparagraph of Article 4(3)12 of Regulation 1049/2001 is applicable to documents 
reflecting individual votes of the Member States. The General Court, however, took the view that 
the  reasons  put  forward  in  the  contested  decision  by  the  Commission  could  not  justify,  in  the 
circumstances of that case, the application of the exception laid down in the second subparagraph 
of Article 4(3) of Regulation 1049/2001. In the view of the Court, it could not be demonstrated that 

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

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10   T-371/20 and T-554/20, Pollinis France v Commission, ECLI:EU:T:2022:556.  
11   Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to 

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European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, OJ L 145, 31.5.2001, p. 43. 
‘Access to a document containing opinions for internal use as part of deliberations and preliminary consultations within the 
institution concerned shall be refused even after the decision has been taken if disclosure of the document would seriously 
undermine the institution's decision-making process, unless there is an overriding public interest in disclosure.’ 

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disclosure  of  the  requested  documents  would  risk  to  seriously  undermine  the  decision-making 
process  in  question.  The  General  Court  annulled  the  decision  refusing  access  to  the  requested 
document. The Commission subsequently lodged an appeal against the judgment. 

In its judgment of 28 February 2023 in case C-695/20 (Fenix International Ltd vs Commissioner for 
her  Majesty’s  Revenue  and  Customs),  the  Court  of  Justice  made  two  observations  of  general 
application on implementing powers. The case concerned a request for a preliminary ruling on the 
validity of Article 9a(1) of Council Implementing Regulation No 282/2011, based on whether or not 
the  Council  supplemented  or  amended  Article 28  of  the  VAT  Directive  2006/112/EC13,  thus 
exceeding  the  implementing  powers  conferred  on  it  by  Article 397  of  that  Directive,  under 
Article 291(2) of the Treaty  on the Functioning  of the European Union (TFEU).  First,  the Court 
recalled  that  when  it  comes  to  the  use  of  Council  implementing  powers,  Article  291(2)  TFEU 
requires a detailed statement of the reasons why that institution is entrusted with adopting the act in 
question.  Second,  it  noted  that  the  considerations  relating  to  the  limits  of  the  Commission’s 
implementing powers are also valid  where such powers are conferred on  the Council, given that 
Article 291(2) TFEU draws no distinction as to the nature and scope of implementing powers based 
on the institution on which they are conferred. The Court of Justice noted that the implementing 
powers conferred on the Commission or the Council under Article 291(2) TFEU entail, in essence, 
the power to adopt measures that are necessary or appropriate for the uniform implementation of the 
provisions of the legislative act on the basis of which they are adopted and which merely specify the 
content  of  that  act,  in  compliance  with  the  essential  general  aims  pursued  by  that  act,  without 
amending or supplementing it, in its essential or even non-essential elements14. The Court ruled that 
the contested implementing regulation did not breach any of these principles and could therefore be 
upheld as valid. 

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 have been 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 shows the number of comitology committees that existed during the period of 1 January to 
31 December 202315, with the figures for the previous year added for comparison.  

13     Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax, OJ L 347 11.12.2006, p. 1. 
14   The same principles on the limits of implementing powers of the Commission were also reiterated in the Court judgments of 
16  March  2023,  Saatgut-Treuhandverwaltung  (KWS  Meridian),  C  522/21,  ECLI:EU:C:2023:218,  paragraph  35,  and  of  22 
March 2023, Tazzetti v Commission (joined cases T-825/19 and T-826/19), ECLI:EU:T:2023:148, paragraphs 156-157. 
Some committees existed only during part of the year depending on the exact start/end of the validity of their basic legal act. 

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TABLE I — TOTAL NUMBER OF COMMITTEES 

Commission department 

2022 

2023 

AGRI   (Agriculture and Rural Development) 
BUDG   (Budget) 
CLIMA   (Climate Action) 
CNECT   (Communications Networks, Content and Technology) 
COMP   (Competition) 
DEFIS   (Defence Industry and Space) 
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) 
HERA   (Health Emergency Preparedness and Response) 
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 

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

11 
2 
5 
17 
2 
10 
4 
2 
2 
5 
14 
26 
1 
10 
1 
40 
1 
19 
3 
24 
3 
33 
2 
1 
1 
2 
17 
32 
4 
27 
13 
334 

* Including the appeal committee 16 

In  2023,  there  were  334  comitology  committees,  including  committee  configurations17.  
This represents a small increase in the number of committees as compared to 2022 (when there were 
322 comitology committees), reflecting the establishment of new committees by legislation which 
entered into force in 2023. 

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

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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. These are presented individually in 
the staff working document and each of them is counted separately into the overall figure of committees. 

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Table  II  shows  a  breakdown  of  the  committees  in  2023  by  type  of  procedure  under  which  they 
operated  (i.e.  advisory  procedure,  examination  procedure,  regulatory  procedure  with  scrutiny). 
Committees with multiple procedures are indicated separately. 

TABLE II — NUMBER OF COMMITTEES BY PROCEDURE 

Type of procedure 

Regulatory 
with scrutiny 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
1 
0 
1 
0 
2 
0 
2 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
1 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
7 

Multiple 
procedures 
3 
1 
4 
6 
1 
7 
1 
1 
0 
2 
4 
12 
1 
4 
0 
23 
0 
3 
0 
5 
1 
15 
0 
0 
0 
2 
14 
20 
1 
16 
5 
152 

TOTAL 

11 
2 
5 
17 
2 

10 
4 
2 
2 
5 
14 
26 
1 
10 
1 
40 
1 
19 
3 
24 
3 
33 
2 
1 
1 
2 
17 
32 
4 
27 
13 
334 

Commission department 

Advisory 

Examination 

AGRI 
BUDG 
CLIMA 
CNECT 
COMP 
DEFIS 
EAC 
ECFIN 
ECHO 
EMPL 
ENER 
ENV 
ESTAT 
FISMA 
FPI 
GROW 
HERA 
HOME 
INTPA 
JUST 
MARE 
MOVE 
NEAR 
OLAF 
REFORM 
REGIO 
RTD 
SANTE 
SG* 
TAXUD 
TRADE 
TOTAL: 

* Including the appeal committee 

0 
0 
0 
1 
1 
0 
0 
0 
0 
1 
2 
0 
0 
0 
0 
2 
0 
1 
0 
7 
0 
3 
0 
0 
1 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
3 
22 

8 
1 
1 
10 
0 
3 
3 
1 
2 
1 
8 
13 
0 
4 
1 
13 
1 
15 
3 
12 
2 
14 
2 
1 
0 
0 
3 
12 
3 
11 
5 
153 

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3.2.  Number of meetings and written procedures 

The intensity of committees’ activity is primarily defined by the number of committee meetings held 
and written procedures18 conducted. These are shown in Table III. 

TABLE III — NUMBER OF MEETINGS AND WRITTEN PROCEDURES 

Commission department 

Number of 
committees  

AGRI 
BUDG 
CLIMA 
CNECT 
COMP 
DEFIS 
EAC 
ECFIN 
ECHO 
EMPL 
ENER 
ENV 
ESTAT 
FISMA 
FPI 
GROW 
HERA 
HOME 
INTPA 
JUST 
MARE 
MOVE 
NEAR 
OLAF 
REFORM 
REGIO 
RTD 
SANTE 
SG* 
TAXUD 
TRADE 
TOTAL: 

11 
2 
5 
17 
2 
10 
4 
2 
2 
5 
14 
26 
1 
10 
1 
40 
1 
19 
3 
24 
3 
33 
2 
1 
1 
2 
17 
32 
4 
27 
13 
334 

Meetings 

Written procedures 

2022 
100 
4 
5 
15 
0 
46 
11 
14 
7 
0 
18 
23 
3 
10 
9 
30 
0 
49 
18 
21 
3 
40 
19 
0 
1 
3 
62 
95 
12 
31 
24 
673 

2023 
77 
4 
9 
24 
7 
50 
10 
18 
3 
1 
20 
23 
4 
6 
3 
28 
0 
42 
21 
13 
5 
41 
11 
0 
0 
2 
43 
98 
10 
48 
29 
650 

2022 
52 
0 
3 
30 
0 
7 
17 
0 
12 
0 
8 
10 
7 
23 
6 
78 
0 
60 
14 
6 
10 
20 
48 
0 
2 
3 
355 
813 
6 
36 
49 
1 675 

2023 
1 
0 
2 
19 
1 
13 
15 
0 
2 
0 
8 
7 
4 
15 
0 
38 
0 
15 
8 
4 
7 
17 
17 
0 
1 
3 
223 
769 
0 
33 
20 
1 242 

* Including meetings/written procedures of the appeal committee 

There  were  650  meetings  in  2023,  which  is  slightly  less  than  in  2022  (when  there  were  673 
meetings), and 1 242 written procedures, which is significantly lower than the year before (when 
there were 1 675 procedures). 

18   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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3.3. 

Number of opinions and implementing acts 

This  report  also  gives  an  indication  of  the  specific  output  of  the  committees,  which  is  another 
important indicator of the level of activity.  

TABLE IV — NUMBER OF OPINIONS AND IMPLEMENTING ACTS ADOPTED19 

Commission department 

Opinions20 

Implementing acts 
adopted 

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

REFORM 

REGIO 

RTD 

SANTE 

SG* 

TAXUD 

TRADE 
TOTAL: 

2022 
103 
0 
4 
31 
0 
12 
21 
17 
13 
0 
30 
25 
10 
25 
5 
85 
0 
58 
106 
13 
13 
48 
110 
0 

2 

3 

354 

819 

13 

43 

85 
2 048 

2023 
102 
0 
11 
26 
2 
19 
20 
25 
3 
2 
13 
26 
15 
14 
0 
63 
0 
62 
118 
4 
10 
44 
37 
0 

1 
3 

223 

1041 

22 

52 

81 
2 039 

2022 
100 
0 
5 
30 
0 
16 

24 
17 
13 
0 
21 
22 
9 

22 
4 
73 
0 
49 
104 
9 
19 
55 
108 

0 

1 

5 
333 

907 

0 
40 

2023 
102 
0 
11 
23 
3 
19 
17 
25 
4 
2 
9 
17 
14 
10 
0 
67 
0 
68 
118 
4 
10 
40 
37 

0 

1 

3 
213 

967 

0 
45 

86 
2 072 

87 
1 916 

Parliament resolutions 
/Council decisions  
(Art. 11) 
2023 
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 
8 
(European Parliament) 
0 

0 

0 
8 

*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. See also Section 3.4 and Table V. 

19   As regards adopted implementing acts, the indication of Commission departments (policy areas) means that the acts in question 
were prepared (discussed and/or voted on) in a committee managed by the respective Commission department; in some cases 
the actual adoption of the act was formally ensured by another Commission department. 

20   A vote resulting in ‘no opinion’ is counted in the total number of opinions as this is one possible outcome in the committee. 

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Table  IV  shows  overall  figures  on  the  formal  opinions  delivered  by  the  committees  and  the 
subsequent implementing acts adopted by the Commission21. It also indicates the cases where either 
the European Parliament or the Council have exercised their right of scrutiny under Article 11 of the 
Comitology Regulation. 

The committees delivered 2 039 opinions22 in 2023, which is a small decrease compared with 2022 
(2048).  Similarly,  the  1  916  implementing  acts  adopted  following  a  committee  procedure  were 
fewer than in the previous year (2072).  

The  European  Parliament  and  the  Council  have  a  right  of  scrutiny  under  Article  11  of  the 
Comitology  Regulation.  In  2023,  the  European  Parliament  adopted  eight  resolutions  based  on 
Article  11  of  the  Comitology  Regulation,  all  of  which  concerned  acts  by  DG  SANTE.  
The Council did not exercise its right to oppose a draft measure under this provision in 2023. 

3.4.  Meetings of the appeal committee 

As shown in Table V below, the appeal committee met 10 times during 2023, and discussed 22 draft 
implementing acts which the Commission referred to it. Voting at the meetings in all cases and not 
using written procedures, it delivered a ‘no opinion’ in all 22 cases23. The Commission adopted all 
22 implementing acts following the appeal committee vote, with 3 of them adopted in 2024.  

TABLE V — ACTIVITY OF THE APPEAL COMMITTEE 

Commission department 

Number of meetings/written 
consultations of the appeal committee 

Number of opinions24 of 
the appeal committee 

MOVE 
SANTE 
TRADE 
TOTAL: 

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

2023 
1(0) 
9(0) 
0 
10(0) 

2022 
0 (0) 
12 (12) 
1 (1) 
13 (13) 

2023 
1 (1) 
21 (21) 
0 
22 (22) 

Number of acts 
adopted following 
an opinion of the 
appeal committee 

2022 
0 
10 
1 
11 

2023 
1 
18 
0 
19 

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. 

22   The overwhelming majority of the votes in the committees were positive, whereas a ‘no opinion’ was delivered in 31 cases 
(including those eventually referred to the appeal committee). There was 1 negative vote delivered (on labelling requirements 
of the novel foods α-cyclodextrin and γ-cyclodextrinand) and consequently the draft act was withdrawn by the Commission. 
Further details are available in the accompanying staff working document. 

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24   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. 

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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 legal acts referring to it25. This procedure can no longer be introduced 
into new legislation, but it still appears in many existing basic legal acts and will continue to apply 
under those acts until the respective empowerments have been aligned to empowerments for either 
delegated or implementing acts. 

In 2023, 57 measures were adopted under the regulatory procedure with scrutiny (see Table VI), 
which is less than in 2022 (when 68 measures were adopted). The right to oppose acts under the 
regulatory  procedure  with  scrutiny  was  used  once  in  2023,  by  the  European  Parliament.  
For comparison, in 2022, the co-legislators did not use this right. 

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

Commission 
department 

Regulatory procedure with 
scrutiny – measures 
adopted 

European Parliament opposed 
adoption of draft measures 

Council opposed adoption of 
draft measures 

AGRI 
BUDG 
CLIMA 
CNECT 
COMP 
DEFIS 
EAC 
ECHO 
ECON 
EMPL 
ENER 
ENV 
ESTAT 
FISMA 
FPI 
GROW 
HERA 
HOME 
INTPA 
JUST 
MARE 
MOVE 
NEAR 
OLAF 
REFORM 
REGIO 
RTD 
SANTE 
SG 
TAXUD 
TRADE 
TOTAL 

0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
1 
5 
0 
4 
0 
7 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
40 
0 
0 
0 
57 

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 
1 
0 
0 
0 
1 

25   Article 12, second paragraph of the Comitology Regulation. 

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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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4. 

CONCLUSION 

The committees continued to work in 2023 at a similar level of intensity as the previous year. There 
were 334 committees, which held 650 meetings, carried out 1 242 written procedures and delivered 
2  039  opinions,  leading  to  the  adoption  of  1  916  implementing  acts  and  57  measures  under  the 
regulatory procedure with scrutiny. Enabling Member States to exercise their control powers in line 
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 Commission invites both the European Parliament and the Council to take note of this report. 

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