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unusual facts about Constitutional Affairs Committee


Constitutional Affairs Committee

Following the reorganization of the Department of Constitutional Affairs and Home Affairs Committee and until the end of the 2006-2007 parliamentary session, the committee oversaw the Ministry of Justice.



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Comitology

The EP negotiators, Joseph Daul MEP (chair of the Conference of Committee Chairs) and Richard Corbett MEP (rapporteur of the Constitutional Affairs Committee), bargained with the Council for several months, following the initiative taken, at Corbett's behest, by the then UK Council presidency (under a UK Labour government—Corbett is a Labour MEP) in the autumn of 2005, to re-open the subject and seek an agreed solution with the Parliament.