Etymology
From committee + -ology, introduced by Cyril Northcote Parkinson in humorous essays published in The Economist.
Noun
comitology (countable and uncountable, plural comitologies)
- (European Union) The system of committees, composed of representatives of the member states, used to oversee European Commission implementing acts made under European Union legislation.
- (humorous) The study of how committees could work, expand, and ramify.
Translations
art of resolving issues by committees
- Czech: komitologie f
- Danish: komitologi
- Dutch: comitologie
- Finnish: komitologia
- French: comitologie (fr) f
- German: Komitologie (de) f
- Greek: επιτροπολογία f (epitropología)
- Italian: comitologia f
- Portuguese: comitologia f
- Russian: (European Union) комитоло́гия f (komitológija)
(Parkinson) комиссоло́гия f (komissológija)
- Spanish: comitología f
- Swedish: kommittéförfarande, kommittésystem, sometimes kommittébestämmelser ("kommittologi" should not be used, say Swedish government's translators)
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