In addition to creating this phantom "standing committee" the Treaty grants indefinite and infinite powers to the European Commission in a way that is also comparable to systems like the Soviet Union used to be:

"9D 2. Union legislative acts may only be adopted on the basis of a Commission proposal, except where the Treaties provide otherwise. Other acts shall be adopted on the basis of a Commission proposal where the Treaties so provide."

This is where the trick is hidden. The Treaties does NOT provide otherwise in any part of the text (except the cases of foreign affairs and security issues which is outside its scope anyway).

In addition, every time when there is a specific provision on the adoption of other than legislative acts, the Commission is granted even greater powers: it can amend the very procedure by which legislative acts may be passed.

ARTICLE 249 B
"1. A legislative act may delegate to the Commission the power to adopt non-legislative acts of general application to supplement or amend certain non-essential elements of the legislative act."

However, the members and the President of the Commission (who is actually the president of the USE) are not selected by general elections that is, NOT by the direct votes of Europe's citizens. Instead, they are chosen by the Council based on obscure criteria:

9D: The Council, by common accord with the President-elect, shall adopt the list of the other persons whom it proposes for appointment as members of the Commission. They shall be selected, on the basis of the suggestions made by Member States, in accordance with the criteria set out in paragraph 3, second subparagraph, and paragraph 5, second subparagraph.

The criteria of selection are to serve the rulers' interests properly, which is again the very principle and practice of the former Soviet Union:

9D (the referred paragraphs):
"The members of the Commission shall be chosen on the ground of their general competence and European commitment from persons whose independence is beyond doubt."
"The members of the Commission shall be chosen from among the nationals of the Member States on the basis of a system of strictly equal rotation between the Member States, reflecting the demographic and geographical range of all the Member States. This system shall be established unanimously by the European Council in accordance with Article 211a of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union."

Furthermore (from the same article):
"A member of the Commission shall resign if the President so requests."

So the unit possessing the greatest power, The Commission is NOT chosen by the people but by the Council, based on criteria which are utterly serving the interests of a dictatorial rule. If the members of the Commission would not obey as required by the lead they can be recalled, but again, not by the voters, but by the dictatorial lead itself.

THIS IS IN ESSENCE THE SYSTEM MAINTAINED BY THE FORMER DICTATORIAL SOVIET UNION. THIS IS A VERY SERIOUS ISSUE NOT TO BE TAKEN LIGHTLY. IF YOU DO NOT STOP THE EU TODAY, THAT MEANS THE END OF EUROPE'S FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY.

I quoted the entire part of the Lisbon Treaty related to this:

ARTICLE 61 D
A standing committee shall be set up within the Council in order to ensure that operational cooperation on internal security is promoted and strengthened within the Union. Without prejudice to Article 207, it shall facilitate coordination of the action of Member States' competent authorities. Representatives of the Union bodies, offices and agencies concerned may be involved in the proceedings of this committee. The European Parliament and national Parliaments shall be kept informed of the proceedings.

Here is the article referred to:
"ARTICLE 207
1. A committee consisting of the Permanent Representatives of the Governments of the Member States shall be responsible for preparing the work of the Council and for carrying out the tasks assigned to it by the latter. The Committee may adopt procedural decisions in cases provided for in the Council's Rules of Procedure.
2. The Council shall be assisted by a General Secretariat, under the responsibility of a Secretary-General appointed by the Council.
The Council shall decide on the organisation of the General Secretariat by a simple majority.
3. The Council shall act by a simple majority regarding procedural matters and for the adoption of its Rules of Procedure.".

This is indeed a hidden provision in the Treaty and falls outside the stated structure of the EU's institutions and the power division among these fundamental institutions - and falls beyond the scope as they were described at the beginning of the Treaty. This practice illustrates how "accountable and transparent" the EU's system is. Just like that of the former Soviet Union was.

First the E.U. sets up the Gendarmerie Force , or the new S.S. , now it sets up the COSI  or the new Gestapo  ; all without reference to the Member States . So much for E.U. democracy , we are already in a Police state dictatorship here .

COSI? They wanted to call it STASI, but that name had already been used.