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61 Admin. L. Rev. 199 (2009)
Decisionmaking in EU Administrative Law - The Problem of Composite Procedures

handle is hein.journals/admin61 and id is 1127 raw text is: DECISIONMAKING IN EU ADMINISTRATIVE LAW-THE PROBLEM OF COMPOSITE PROCEDURES HERWIG C.H. HOFMANN* TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction ..................................................................................... 199 II. Case Study and Background ........................................................... 200 III. Substance of Composite Procedures: Joint Generation and Sharing of Inform ation .................................................................... 203 IV. Supervision and Remedies-The Situation and Possibilities of Im provem ent .......................................................... 210 A. Judicial Supervision of Composite Procedures ....................... 212 1. Lack of N etwork Structures ............................................... 213 2. Joint Procedures for Obtaining Information ...................... 215 3. Solutions ............................................................................ 2 16 B. Parliamentary and Administrative Supervision ....................... 218 V. Summary and Outlook for EU Administrative Law ....................... 220 I. INTRODUCTION This Article addresses legal issues in the European Union (EU) arising from the fast-paced development toward a highly integrated legal system without a central administrative body. Implementation of EU policies is increasingly undertaken by networks of administrations from different Member States with input from European institutions and bodies. Integrating European-level and Member State administrative structures and procedures has led to what this Article describes as composite procedures. Problems arising from composite procedures are well known in federal systems, like the U.S. federal system; at the same time, these problems raise questions that are very different from traditional federal * Herwig Hofmann is professor of European law at the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg and the Director of its Centre for European law. Herwig.hofmann@uni.lu

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