Chapter 5: Project Teams in the European Commission – A fair balance between efficiency and politics?

Böttner, Robert

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“…First, treaty changes have increased the formal powers of the Commission President. Second, Commission presidents – starting with Prodi and Barroso and taken to new heights by Juncker and von der Leyen – have created an informal hierarchy inside the College of Commissioners by appointing vice presidents as ‘super commissioners’ (Böttner, 2018). Third, at the administrative level, the Commission's Secretariat‐General has been transformed into a personal service of the presidency, has grown significantly in size, and has tightened its control over the individual DGs by installing a Regulatory Scrutiny Board with powers to block submissions of proposals to the College of Commissioners (Senninger and Blom‐Hansen, 2020).…”

Section: How Can the Commission Use The Right Of Initiative To Shape Eu Rules?mentioning

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The Commission in EU Policy Preparation

Blom‐Hansen

Senninger

2020

J of Common Market Studies

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Since the heyday of Jacques Delors, the Commission has been challenged by the rise of the European Council, the empowerment of the European Parliament and the creation of European agencies. However, while many scholars agree about the direction of change, there is disagreement about the extent to which the Commission's position has declined. A number of studies are sceptical, and we join this sceptical line. Our contribution is to focus on the Commission's role as a maker of both legislative and executive rules (implementing and delegated acts). These rules are all decided under complex inter-institutional procedures. But the Commission possesses the right of initiative in all procedures. We investigate how the Commission can use this first-mover advantage to influence EU policy. We establish a framework for understanding what strategic options the first-mover advantage entails and provide a first empirical illustration with a qualitative analysis of ten selected Commission proposals.

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Section: How Can the Commission Use The Right Of Initiative To Shape Eu Rules?mentioning

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The Commission in EU Policy Preparation

Blom‐Hansen

Senninger

2020

J of Common Market Studies

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“…First, treaty changes have increased the formal powers of the Commission President. Second, Commission presidents -starting with Prodi and Barroso and taken to new heights by Juncker and von der Leyen -have created an informal hierarchy inside the College of Commissioners by appointing vice presidents as "super commissioners" (Böttner 2018). Third, at the administrative level, the Commission's Secretariat-General has been transformed into a personal service of the presidency, has grown significantly in size, and has tightened its control over the individual DGs by installing a Regulatory Scrutiny Board with powers to block submissions of proposals to the College of Commissioners (Senninger and Blom-Hansen 2020).…”

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The Commission in EU Policy Preparation

Blom‐Hansen¹,

Senninger²

2020

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Since the heyday of Jacques Delors, the Commission has been challenged by the rise of the European Council, the empowerment of the European Parliament and the creation of European agencies. However, while many scholars agree about the direction of change, there is disagreement about the extent to which the Commission’s position has declined. A number of studies are skeptical, and we join this skeptical line. Our contribution is to focus on the Commission’s role as a maker of both legislative and executive rules (implementing and delegated acts). These rules are all decided under complex inter-institutional procedures. But the Commission possesses the right of initiative in all procedures. We investigate how the Commission can use this first-mover advantage to influence EU policy. We establish a framework for understanding what strategic options the first-mover advantage entails and provide a first empirical illustration with a qualitative analysis of ten selected Commission proposals.

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Chapter 5: Project Teams in the European Commission – A fair balance between efficiency and politics?

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