Download or read book The EU Comitology System in Theory and Practice written by Jens Blom-Hansen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EU law consists of several thousand acts of which the overwhelming majority are made by the Commission. The Commission is controlled by comitology, a system of committees of member state representatives that are consulted when new acts are proposed. This book looks at why the system was created, how it functions and how it has evolved.