Burns, C. orcid.org/0000-0001-9944-0417 and Tobin, P. (2020) Crisis, climate change and comitology : policy dismantling via the backdoor? JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 58 (3). pp. 527-544. ISSN 0021-9886
Abstract
The European Union (EU) is reputed to be a climate pioneer. However, the EU has been beset by crises, with potentially negative consequences for climate ambition. Analysis and coding of EU climate legislation between 1998 and 2015 reveal that while the rate of climate policy creation has increased since the onset of the crisis, the ambition of these policies has waned. Technical policy instruments (comitology) at the EU level – ‘Delegated and Implementing Acts’ (DIA) – are analysed alongside legislation adopted under the ‘Ordinary Legislative Procedure’ (OLP). If applied as indicated in the treaties, technical DIA measures should not influence policy ambition, but in fact during the crisis era, DIA measures were used more frequently, and used in three out of the four cases of policy weakening, suggesting that minor dismantling of climate policy is taking place at EU level, but via the backdoor.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 University Association for Contemporary European Studies. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Journal of Common Market Studies. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Climate change; comitology; policy dismantling; EU; crisis |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Leverhulme Trust (The) RPG-2014-183 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 23 Aug 2019 13:42 |
Last Modified: | 10 Dec 2021 10:58 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/jcms.12996 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:150076 |