The First Department does opinion-giving work.

Second, the point raised by Ms Frassoni about opinion-giving committees having the right to table amendments in plenary.

The first approach maximizes opinion-giving but risks enouraging respondents to make up their minds before they really have, perhaps giving a candidate an artificially high favorable or unfavorable rating.

I also pay tribute to the intensive efforts undertaken by the other members of the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market and to the opinion-giving committees and their draftspersons.

In its decision of 12 December 2007, the Conference of Presidents designated the Committee on Legal Affairs as the lead committee to deal with this comitology alignment and the specialised committees as opinion-giving committees.