The European Parliament and Delegated Legislation: An Institutional Balance Perspective

Contents\nTable of Cases\nList of Figures\nList of Tables\n1. Introduction\n	I. A Primer: Operationalising Institutional Balance as a Yardstick for Assessing Institutional Developments\n	II. Structure of the Enquiry\n2. A Formal Reading of the Lisbon Treaty\n	I. The Formal Catalogue of Acts\n	II. The Lisbon Treaty\'s \'Atypical\' Acts\n	III. The Distinction between Delegated and Implementing Acts: A Cursory Reading of the TFEU\n	IV. Parliamentary Control Over Post-Lisbon Executive Acts\n3. The Road Leading Up to the Lisbon Treaty\n	I. Comitology\'s Origins and Original Sin\n	II. Judicial Sanctioning of Comitology and the Commission\'s Broad Implementing Powers\n	III. From the Single European Act to the 2006 Revision of the Second Comitology Decision\n	IV. A Recalibrated Institutional Balance\n4. The Exponential Multiplication of Delimitation Problems\n	I. Delimitation of Autonomous Executive Acts against (Delegated) Legislation and Implementation\n	II. Delimitation of Legislation and Delegation\n	III. Delimitation of Delegated and Implementing Acts\n5. Delegated Power: Further Limits and Procedure\n	I. The Passive Personal Scope of Article 290 TFEU\n	II. Breaking Down the Specificity Requirement\n	III. Testing Specificity in Practice\n	IV. Procedural Limits to the Exercise of Delegated Powers\n6. Implementing Power: Triggering Factors, Nature, Extent and Procedure\n	I. The Notion of Uniform Conditions\n	II. Reconceptualising Implementing Powers Post-Lisbon\n	III. Exceptional Implementation by the Council\n	IV. The (not so) Closed List of Implementing Actors and Implementing Acts\n	V. The Comitology Procedures\n	VI. No Self-Love, the 2017 Proposal to Amend the Comitology Regulation\n7. The Practice and Politics of Delegated Legislation\n	I. Strategies in Delegating Powers\n	II. General Data Protection Regulation\n	III. Data Governance Act\n	IV. Refining the Model\n8. Conclusion\n	I. Looking Back\n	II. … to Move Forward\nAnnex: Overview of Autonomous Executive Legal Bases\nIndex