Implementing Acts:  Article 291 of the Lisbon Treaty stipulates that: “where uniform conditions for implementing legally binding Union acts are needed, those acts shall confer implementing powers to the Commission.”  As required by the Lisbon Treaty, a new framework regulation – Regulation 182/2011 – was adopted to set out procedures for the adoption of implementing acts.  Regulation 182/2011 entered into force on March 1, 2011 and (partially) repeals the old “Comitology” Decision 1999/468/EC.  Implementing Acts are used for routine implementation of framework legislation and cover issues of general OR individual scope.