Paul Craig writes in „Legal Control of Regulatory Bodies: Principle, Policy and Teleology“ in P. Birkinshaw, M. Varney (eds.) 2010, The European Union Legal Order after Lisbon (Kluwer), about the EU’s regulatory bodies, defining „regulatory body“ for the purposes of that article to include all EU bodies and JXUwMDM5JXUwMDA2JXUwMDAyJXUwMDBiJXUwMDBkJXUwMDBhJXUwMDBjJXUwMDE2 , included those who do not have power to issue JXUwMDNhJXUwMDBiJXUwMDA3JXUwMDBhJXUwMDBkJXUwMDA3JXUwMDA5 regulatory norms, but still participate in regulatory process to varying degrees. That way Craig refers to of non-treaty regulatory instruments by international organizations - guidelines, best practices, national policy assessments, and other acts rather analysed under the category of "soft law".

One aspect that the Lisbon Treaty changed with regard to comitology was the architecture of EU regulatory committees in the area of JXUwMDNlJXUwMDBmJXUwMDA3JXUwMDBmJXUwMDBmJXUwMDBkJXUwMDBhJXUwMDA4JXUwMDBk services regulation.

Under the New Strategy for the Single Market, actual in the EU is creation of a regulatory space for electronic communications, including proposals to reinforce EU level regulatory oversight; establishment of new EU regulatory frameworks for the large scale deployment of renewable sources, smart metering, smart grids and transparent wholesale energy markets, to name few.