The Chairman recently sent the following documents to the Internal Market, Infrastructure and Employment Sub-Committee for further scrutiny:
6121/13 COM(2013) 36 Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on Setting up a European Retail Action Plan (Text with EEA relevance)
6122/13 COM(2013) 37 Green Paper on unfair trading practices in the business-to-business food and non-food supply chain in Europe
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For every EU proposal deposited in Parliament the Government publish an explanatory memorandum. These memoranda summarise the proposal and outline the Government’s position. They are one of the primary documents the EU committee and its sub-committees use to scrutinise the Government.
In a session of Parliament the Committee can receive around 800-1000 explanatory memoranda. In order to focus the work of the sub-committees the Chairman sifts through the memoranda and clears some from scrutiny and sends others to sub-committees for further scrutiny.
The Progress of Scrutiny document contains details of all of the proposals currently being scrutinised by the Select committee and its sub-committees:
Much of the committees’ scrutiny results in correspondence with ministers, which can also be found on our website:
If you would like to read the Government’s explanatory memoranda on the proposals sifted for further scrutiny you can find them on the Cabinet Office's European Memoranda search page
If you would like to read further details of the Government’s obligations to Parliament with regard to scrutiny of EU proposals please see the Cabinet Office’s Parliamentary Scrutiny of European Union Documents: Guidance for Departments.
Details of scrutiny conducted by parliaments in other EU Member States can be found on the Interparliamentary EU Information Exchange (IPEX).