After the negotiations between the Council and the European Parliament broke down in March over the recast of the regulation on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Speies of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the EP adopted, on 16 April, its position in first reading, referring the dossier to the next parliamentary term. The European Commission's delegation of powers is still the issue at hand. "The Council's proposal to replace all delegated acts (with the EP and Council's right of scrutiny) with implementing acts is pure provocation against Parliament," said outraged rapporteur and Chair of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) Mattias Groote (S&D, Germany), who insists that "the EP's rights should absolutely be guaranteed".
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