ABSTRACT
The European Union (EU) member states started to delegate some legislative power to the commission in the 1960s when the Common Agricultural Policy was being implemented, which required many technical decisions on grain prices and the like. The Lisbon Treaty changed the comitology system. Nowadays, there are two different ways for the commission to adopt legal acts and for the council and/or parliament to retain some control: through the commission adopting delegated acts or implementing acts. The most contentious issue is genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The authorization, tracing and labelling of GMOs is regulated by two EU laws: regulation 1829/2003 and directive 2001/18/EC. Delegated acts are adopted in a completely different way to implementing acts. The system was created in the Lisbon Treaty and responded to a trend of more and more political decisions, rather than only technical ones, being taken in the comitology system. The European Parliament has more control over delegated acts than over implementing acts.
