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Regulatory Delegation in the European Union

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To address the need for regulatory capacity in the EU, several types of regulatory agents were created at the EU level, such as networks, committees and agencies. In the face of the growing dimension and complexity of the EU regulatory space, how can we explain the variety of delegation patterns across sectors and their change over time? Based on a review of the literature on delegation, EU politics and EU regulatory governance, this first chapter identifies three delegation patterns (based on networks, committees and agencies) and two paths of institutional change (agencification of networks, agencification of committees). The chapter ends with an overview of the book’s arguments and findings that explain these different delegation patterns and trajectories of institutional evolution.

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Mathieu, E. (2016). Regulatory Delegation in the EU. In: Regulatory Delegation in the European Union. European Administrative Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57835-8_1

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