In the same week when the European Parliament’s Secretary-General, Klaus Welle, called for staff reinforcements to deal with the growing number of delegated acts, Richard Corbett – one of the fathers of the 2006 comitology reform – recommended that all MEPs faced with the current lack of new legislative proposals should take an interest in secondary legislation.
It was a surprise to hear Parliament’s highest civil servant declaring “we are not ready,” since the Lisbon Treaty – which introduced delegated…