Soft law and other non-standard methods of EU policy-making Ian Thomson University of Zagreb:...

Soft law and other non-standard methods of EU policy-making

Ian ThomsonUniversity of Zagreb: Faculty of Law: LibrarySeminar: New developments in EU legal research, 27 October 2008

University of Zagreb: Faculty of Law: Library: Seminar: New developments in EU legal research,27 October 2008: Soft law & other non-standard forms of EU policymaking

Structure of talk

Policy making initiatives comprising forms of co-ordination between the EU Member States

Policy making initiatives involving the EU Institutions and external stakeholders (‘civil society’)

The work of committees and agencies in the EU


Policy making initiatives comprising forms of co-ordination between the

EU Member States

Hard Law – Soft LawHard law – legally binding actsSoft law – non legally bindingLegal instruments against versus political

instruments? Open Method of Co-ordination (OMC)



EU Member States

Open Method of Co-ordination (OMC) In context of the Lisbon Strategy (2000)

to become the most competitive, dynamic, knowledge based economy

+ to modernise the European social modelAim: to spread best practice and achieve

greater convergence without adopting binding regulation at EU level



EU Member States Open Method of Co-ordination

Key Concepts: Benchmarking – Peer-review – Scoreboards – Non-binding – Best practice – Policy co-ordination – Common objectives – National implementation – Surveillance by the European

Commission and Member States Guidelines: with specific timetables – Quantitative and

qualitative indicators – Translation of European guidelines into national action plans – Periodic monitoring at EU level


Examples of OMC


Further information on OMC



EU Member States


Policy making initiatives involving the EU institutions and external stakeholders

Standardisation

Social Policy


Standardisation


Social policy


The work of committees and agencies in the EU


Committees in the EU


Agencies


and finally…EU policy-making:Supranational v Intergovernmental? Financial crisis: Brussels a "bewildered by

stander"

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