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<p>To pursue its task as an open and engaged policy-maker, the European Commission (Commission) engages with a complex set of stakeholders. This study demonstrates how the consultation behaviour of the Commission administration reflects both the structural design of the Commission and stakeholder groups and the temporality of the consultation process. The study shows that these factors accompanied two conceptually distinct consultation patterns, coined <i>consultative contraction</i> and <i>consultative detraction</i>. Empirically, the study measures how Commission officials engaged with stakeholders when formulating the battery regulatory proposal of 2020. The proposal contains elements of both old and new regulatory provisions being merged into a single legal instrument where two Directorate-Generals (DGs), DG Environment (ENV) and DG Growth (Grow), share the responsibility of formulating the proposal that indeed encompass the entire battery value chain. The study characterizes the Commission’s consultation regime as a two-stage process, with an initial stage of consultative detraction followed by a stage of consultative contraction. The study moreover finds that these consultation patterns reflected the organizational design of the Commission administration, the organizational capacity of the involved stakeholders, and the temporality of the consultation process.</p>

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Stakeholder involvement in the European Union policy-making: a study of consultation regimes of the European Commission

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    2025年6月23日

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  • Terese Birkeland,
  • Jarle Trondal

摘要

To pursue its task as an open and engaged policy-maker, the European Commission (Commission) engages with a complex set of stakeholders. This study demonstrates how the consultation behaviour of the Commission administration reflects both the structural design of the Commission and stakeholder groups and the temporality of the consultation process. The study shows that these factors accompanied two conceptually distinct consultation patterns, coined consultative contraction and consultative detraction. Empirically, the study measures how Commission officials engaged with stakeholders when formulating the battery regulatory proposal of 2020. The proposal contains elements of both old and new regulatory provisions being merged into a single legal instrument where two Directorate-Generals (DGs), DG Environment (ENV) and DG Growth (Grow), share the responsibility of formulating the proposal that indeed encompass the entire battery value chain. The study characterizes the Commission’s consultation regime as a two-stage process, with an initial stage of consultative detraction followed by a stage of consultative contraction. The study moreover finds that these consultation patterns reflected the organizational design of the Commission administration, the organizational capacity of the involved stakeholders, and the temporality of the consultation process.