National legislation

The latest EUR-Lex newsletter reports improvements to 'Sector 7', which gives details of national implementing measures.

Still no COMdocs

Here we are a week later and there's no new COMs been added to the EUR-Lex page, with the latest addition still 30 April - that's four weeks ago!!

What's going on? Maybe it's true that the Commission has gone into hibernation until the future of the Lisbon Treaty is known - a suggestion made in the International Herald Tribune, which I stumbled on via the EU Referendum blog.

Death of the Directive - continued

According to a press release in Rapid yesterday the Commission is proposing to replace the Construction Product Directive (89/106/EEC) with a new Regulation which adds to the ones I mentioned in an article in Focus a couple of months ago.

I still think this is how the Commission will solve the implementation problem!

It is also interesting that the press release links to the Enterprise and Industry DG, which offers a link to the proposal, COM(2008) 311 final.

However, if you go to EurLex, which is still showing no ComDocs added in May, and put 2008 311 into the ComDocs search box, it says "Not available in English"

Why doesn't EurLex mention on its front page that it hasn't added a preparatory act since 30 April?

Commission and Parliament seal deal in London

From 2010 the European Commission and European Parliament will be sharing offices in London, according to this press release. Facilities will include a conference centre, exhibition space and an information centre.

COMdoc scandal

How is it possible that, on 22 May, the latest addition to the list of COMdocs on EUR-lex is dated 30 April?
Where are the texts of the COMdocs announced in Commission press releases over the past three weeks?
Why has the situation become so appallingly bad recently? This is scandalous!