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European Parliament: Some questions to the would-be Commissioner for Better Regulation, Fundamental Rights and Rule of Law (Timmermans)

08 October 2014

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"In the last ten years the number of EU agencies has rocketed from 10 to 32 sometime for sound technical reasons but more often as way for Member States to shape and manage EU policies without a real accountability before the Commission, the European Parliament and the national parliaments. Their global budget amount in 2014, to 800 million in contributions and with more than 6.000 officials they have become a parallel administration which act in a rather fuzzy way without a clear legal administrative framework.....

How do you intend re-establish a real binding administrative framework and improve the rule of law principles for these “independent” EU bodies?
You announced that you “will prepare a proposal for an Inter-Institutional Agreement creating a mandatory lobby register covering the Commission, the European Parliament and the Council”. As cases of conflict of interest have emerged will you add also the EU Agencies to the register?"

See the full text: Some questions to the would-be Commissioner for Better Regulation, Fundamental Rights and Rule of Law (Timmermans) by Steve Peers, Henri Labayle and Emilio de Capitani (ASFJ, link)

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