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5. The European Commission’s Expert Groups: Adapting to the Contestation of Expertise

verfasst von : Elissaveta Radulova, Johanna Breuer, Aneta Spendzharova

Erschienen in: The Contestation of Expertise in the European Union

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Abstract

Considering the growing contestation of expertise in the public sphere, this chapter explores the institutionalisation of expert groups and how the European Commission (EC) has adapted its use of expertise. Drawing on established conceptualisations about the functions of expertise during the policy-making process, our analysis is two-fold. Firstly, we consider macro level changes and broader trends in the entire Expert Groups (EGs) system. Secondly, we examine the micro level changes of expert advice use in two case studies. Based on new data from the Commission’s register of EGs, as well as on interviews, primary and secondary sources, we find improvements with regard to transparency, conceptualised as improved access to the register. The EC has also specified better the classification of different types of experts. Furthermore, the two case studies of EGs—focusing on financial sustainability and lowering limits of industrial pollution—show that the use of expertise is both instrumental and strategic. Concretely, the strategic (consensus-building) use of expertise helped to narrow down the range of viewpoints. Eventually, this facilitated the identification of compromises and acceptable policy solutions in the policy shaping stage of the EU legislative process.

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Vorheriges Kapitel Winning Hearts, Losing Minds: Politicisation and the Contestation of Expertise in the Context of TTIP Negotiations
Nächstes Kapitel The Role of Expertise in the EU’s Emerging Diplomatic System
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1
According to Grundmann and Stehr (2011, p. 40) experts are “mediators between producers of knowledge and users of knowledge; and thus, between those who create the capacity to take action, and those whose task it is to act.”
 
2
Data from the Register of European Commission Expert Groups extracted on 6 February 2018.
 
3
The Register data are from the 6 February 2018 and were provided by the General Secretariat of the Commission Unit B2.
 
4
Van Ballaert (2015) estimated that expert groups assisted the Commmission in preparing about a third of the legislative proposals, especially in dossiers of more transversal nature and/or when the legislative proposal concerned standard-setting.
 
5
Exceptions are made in case of emergency and also for the member state authorities which can appoint their own EG representatives.
 
6
The requirement that all type B and C experts should be registered in the Transparency Register allows cross-checking between the two registers and collecting more detailed data per sub-category.
 
8
 
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Metadaten
Titel
The European Commission’s Expert Groups: Adapting to the Contestation of Expertise
verfasst von
Elissaveta Radulova
Johanna Breuer
Aneta Spendzharova
Copyright-Jahr
2021
Buch
The Contestation of Expertise in the European Union

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-54366-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-54367-9

Copyright-Jahr: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54367-9_5