Saturday, 14 June 2008

April ComDocs

For anyone trying to keep track of what has been published in the EurLex ComDoc list, the following have been slipped into the list for April at the same time as the May ones have started to appear:

Proposal for a Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the establishment of a European Quality Assurance Reference Framework for Vocational Education and Training

COM(2008) 179 final
09 April 2008


Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation 1683/95 laying down a uniform format for visas as regards the numbering of visas

COM(2008) 188 final
14 April 2008

Tuesday, 10 June 2008

Keeping EP informed about Commission Committees

There is an interesting item in the OJC today (2008/C 143/01) regarding the Commission keeping Parliament aware of the activities of committees established in accordance with
Decision 1999/468/EC.

It says:

"The Commission will establish a register containing all documents forwarded to the European
Parliament . The European Parliament will have direct access to this register. In accordance with Article 7(5) of Decision 1999/468/EC, references of all documents transmitted to the European Parliament will be made public."

ComDocs are back

The first few documents for May have appeared on EurLex today.

Thursday, 5 June 2008

Missing COMdocs - the official explanation

Patrick Overy, University of Exeter EDC, says that he's just received this explanation from the EUR-Lex helpdesk:

"This is a problem in the loading chain from the Secretariat General toEUR-Lex. The technical team tells us (since 2 weeks) that it will be solved very soon ... For the moment you can see only the titles of these recent COM documents on the Parliament website, at the bottom of this page, or on Prelex you can search by date.

Sorry for these inconveniences !"

Inconveniences?? We can't access some of the Commission's most important documents for more than a month and they describe it as an inconvenience!! What IS the world coming to?

Wednesday, 4 June 2008

Welsh to become official EU language?

Welsh might be used at EU level, according to this BBC news item.