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2008/2120(INI) Development of the relations between the European Parliament and national parliaments under the Treaty of Lisbon

Progress: Procedure completed

RoleCommitteeRapporteurShadows
Lead AFCO BROK Elmar (icon: PPE-DE PPE-DE)
Committee Opinion LIBE
Committee Opinion AFET DUFF Andrew (icon: ALDE ALDE)
Committee Opinion DEVE BERMAN Thijs (icon: PSE PSE)
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
RoP 54, RoP 54-p4

Events

2009/11/11
   EC - Commission response to text adopted in plenary
Documents
2009/05/07
   EP - Results of vote in Parliament
2009/05/07
   EP - Decision by Parliament
Details

The European Parliament adopted by 379 votes to 65, with 16 abstentions, a resolution on the development of the relations between the European Parliament and national parliaments under the Treaty of Lisbon.

The resolution stresses that the necessary parliamentarisation of the European Union must rely on two fundamental approaches: the broadening of the European Parliament's powers vis-à-vis all the Union's decisions and the strengthening of the powers of the national parliaments vis-à-vis their respective governments.

MEPs note that the last resolution adopted by the European Parliament on the issue of relations with national parliaments dates from 2002, and it carries out a reassessment of relations between the two. They welcome the obligations and rights of the national parliaments under the Treaty of Lisbon – which is a 'Treaty of the parliaments' – which enhance their role in the political processes of the EU. Members note with satisfaction that relations with the national parliaments and their members have developed fairly positively in recent years, but not yet to a sufficient extent.

With regard to future relations , the Parliament is of the opinion that new forms of pre- and post-legislative dialogue between the European Parliament and national parliaments should be developed. It urges national parliaments to:

strengthen their efforts to hold national governments to account for their management of the spending of EU funds; scrutinise the quality of national impact assessments and the manner in which national governments transpose EU law into domestic law and implement EU policies and funding programmes at the level of the state, regions and local authorities; monitor rigorously the reporting of the national action plans of the Lisbon agenda.

MEPs deem it appropriate to offer national parliaments support in their scrutiny of draft legislation prior to its consideration by the Union legislature, as well as in the effective scrutiny of their governments when they are acting in the Council.

The resolution states that regular bilateral Joint Committee Meetings of corresponding specialised committees allow for dialogue to take place at an early stage on legislation or political initiatives and should therefore be developed systematically into a permanent network of corresponding committees. Such meetings can be accompanied by ad hoc bilateral committee meetings to deal with specific national concerns.

MEPs recommend granting an adequate budget to organise meetings of specialised committees with corresponding committees of national parliaments and of European Parliament rapporteurs with their counterparts in national parliaments. They also recommend examining the possibility of establishing the technical facilities for holding videoconferences between the rapporteurs in the specialised committees of the national parliaments and the European Parliament. In this context, they recommend appropriate financial support for the electronic platform for the exchange of information between parliaments, the IPEX website .

The Parliament envisages more systematic monitoring of the pre-legislative dialogue between the national parliaments and the Commission ( the "Barroso initiative" ) in order to be informed about the national parliaments' position at an early stage of the legislative process. It calls on national parliaments to make the opinions they issue in this context available to the European Parliament at the same time.

It also calls for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Western European Union (WEU) to be dissolved as soon as the WEU has been absorbed fully into the EU with the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty.

Role of COSAC : lastly, the Parliament considers that the political role of the Conference of Community and European Affairs Committees of Parliaments of the European Union (COSAC) in the future will have to be defined by close cooperation between the European Parliament and the national parliaments, and that COSAC should remain primarily a forum for the exchange of information and debate on general political issues and best practices with regard to the scrutiny of national governments.

Moreover, it considers that information and debate should be focused, secondly, on legislative activities pertaining to the area of freedom, security and justice and on respect of the principle of subsidiarity at European Union level. According to MEPs, specialised committees should be more strongly involved in the preparation of, and representation at, COSAC meetings.

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2009/05/07
   EP - End of procedure in Parliament
2009/05/06
   EP - Debate in Parliament
2009/03/13
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
Documents
2009/03/13
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Documents
2009/03/09
   EP - Vote in committee
Details

The Committee on Constitutional Affairs adopted the own-initiative report drawn up by Elmar BROK (EPP-ED, DE) on the development of the relations between the European Parliament and national parliaments under the Treaty of Lisbon. The committee notes that the last resolution adopted by the European Parliament on the issue of relations with national parliaments dates from 2002, and it carries out a reassessment of relations between the two. It welcomes the obligations and rights of the national parliaments under the Treaty of Lisbon – which is a 'Treaty of the parliaments' – which enhance their role in the political processes of the EU. Members note with satisfaction that relations with the national parliaments and their members have developed fairly positively in recent years, but not yet to a sufficient extent, notably through the following forms of joint activities.

They make a series of observations and recommendation on future relations . The committee is of the opinion that new forms of pre- and post-legislative dialogue between the European Parliament and national parliaments should be developed. It urges national parliaments to:

strengthen their efforts to hold national governments to account for their management of the spending of EU funds; scrutinise the quality of national impact assessments and the manner in which national governments transpose EU law into domestic law and implement EU policies and funding programmes at the level of the state, regions and local authorities; monitor rigorously the reporting of the national action plans of the Lisbon agenda.

The report states that regular bilateral Joint Committee Meetings of corresponding specialised committees allow for dialogue to take place at an early stage on legislation or political initiatives and should therefore be developed systematically into a permanent network of corresponding committees. Such meetings can be accompanied by ad hoc bilateral committee meetings to deal with specific national concerns. It recommends granting an adequate budget to organise meetings of specialised committees with corresponding committees of national parliaments and of European Parliament rapporteurs with their counterparts in national parliaments. It also recommends examining the possibility of establishing the technical facilities for holding videoconferences between the rapporteurs. Members believe that increased powers of the national parliaments with regard to compliance with the principle of subsidiarity, as provided for in the Treaty of Lisbon, will allow European legislation to be scrutinised at an early stage and will contribute to better law-making as well as to improved coherence of legislation at EU level. They recommend appropriate financial support for the electronic platform for the exchange of information between parliaments, the IPEX website.

The committee envisages more systematic monitoring of the pre-legislative dialogue between the national parliaments and the Commission (the "Barroso initiative") in order to be informed about the national parliaments' position at an early stage of the legislative process. It calls on national parliaments to make the opinions they issue in this context available to the European Parliament at the same time.

It also calls for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Western European Union (WEU) to be dissolved as soon as the WEU has been absorbed fully into the EU with the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty.

The committee goes on to consider that the political role of COSAC will have to be defined by close cooperation between the European Parliament and national parliaments. COSAC should remain primarily a forum for the exchange of information and debate on general political issues and best practices with regard to the scrutiny of national governments . That information and debate should be focused on legislative activities pertaining to the area of freedom, security and justice and on respect of the principle of subsidiarity at EU level. Members believe that specialised committees should be more strongly involved in the preparation of, and representation at, COSAC meetings.

2009/02/24
   EP - Committee opinion
Documents
2009/02/18
   EP - Committee opinion
Documents
2009/02/18
   EP - Amendments tabled in committee
Documents
2009/01/26
   EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2009/01/21
   EP - BERMAN Thijs (PSE) appointed as rapporteur in DEVE
2008/05/30
   EP - DUFF Andrew (ALDE) appointed as rapporteur in AFET
2008/05/22
   EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament
2008/05/19
   EP - BROK Elmar (PPE-DE) appointed as rapporteur in AFCO

Documents

AmendmentsDossier
43 2008/2120(INI)
2009/02/06 DEVE 1 amendments...
source: PE-420.076
2009/02/16 AFET 13 amendments...
source: PE-420.105
2009/02/18 AFCO 29 amendments...
source: PE-420.192

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  • date: 2009-03-09T00:00:00 type: Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading body: EP summary: The Committee on Constitutional Affairs adopted the own-initiative report drawn up by Elmar BROK (EPP-ED, DE) on the development of the relations between the European Parliament and national parliaments under the Treaty of Lisbon. The committee notes that the last resolution adopted by the European Parliament on the issue of relations with national parliaments dates from 2002, and it carries out a reassessment of relations between the two. It welcomes the obligations and rights of the national parliaments under the Treaty of Lisbon – which is a 'Treaty of the parliaments' – which enhance their role in the political processes of the EU. Members note with satisfaction that relations with the national parliaments and their members have developed fairly positively in recent years, but not yet to a sufficient extent, notably through the following forms of joint activities. They make a series of observations and recommendation on future relations . The committee is of the opinion that new forms of pre- and post-legislative dialogue between the European Parliament and national parliaments should be developed. It urges national parliaments to: strengthen their efforts to hold national governments to account for their management of the spending of EU funds; scrutinise the quality of national impact assessments and the manner in which national governments transpose EU law into domestic law and implement EU policies and funding programmes at the level of the state, regions and local authorities; monitor rigorously the reporting of the national action plans of the Lisbon agenda. The report states that regular bilateral Joint Committee Meetings of corresponding specialised committees allow for dialogue to take place at an early stage on legislation or political initiatives and should therefore be developed systematically into a permanent network of corresponding committees. Such meetings can be accompanied by ad hoc bilateral committee meetings to deal with specific national concerns. It recommends granting an adequate budget to organise meetings of specialised committees with corresponding committees of national parliaments and of European Parliament rapporteurs with their counterparts in national parliaments. It also recommends examining the possibility of establishing the technical facilities for holding videoconferences between the rapporteurs. Members believe that increased powers of the national parliaments with regard to compliance with the principle of subsidiarity, as provided for in the Treaty of Lisbon, will allow European legislation to be scrutinised at an early stage and will contribute to better law-making as well as to improved coherence of legislation at EU level. They recommend appropriate financial support for the electronic platform for the exchange of information between parliaments, the IPEX website. The committee envisages more systematic monitoring of the pre-legislative dialogue between the national parliaments and the Commission (the "Barroso initiative") in order to be informed about the national parliaments' position at an early stage of the legislative process. It calls on national parliaments to make the opinions they issue in this context available to the European Parliament at the same time. It also calls for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Western European Union (WEU) to be dissolved as soon as the WEU has been absorbed fully into the EU with the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty. The committee goes on to consider that the political role of COSAC will have to be defined by close cooperation between the European Parliament and national parliaments. COSAC should remain primarily a forum for the exchange of information and debate on general political issues and best practices with regard to the scrutiny of national governments . That information and debate should be focused on legislative activities pertaining to the area of freedom, security and justice and on respect of the principle of subsidiarity at EU level. Members believe that specialised committees should be more strongly involved in the preparation of, and representation at, COSAC meetings.
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  • date: 2009-05-07T00:00:00 type: Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P6-TA-2009-388 title: T6-0388/2009 summary: The European Parliament adopted by 379 votes to 65, with 16 abstentions, a resolution on the development of the relations between the European Parliament and national parliaments under the Treaty of Lisbon. The resolution stresses that the necessary parliamentarisation of the European Union must rely on two fundamental approaches: the broadening of the European Parliament's powers vis-à-vis all the Union's decisions and the strengthening of the powers of the national parliaments vis-à-vis their respective governments. MEPs note that the last resolution adopted by the European Parliament on the issue of relations with national parliaments dates from 2002, and it carries out a reassessment of relations between the two. They welcome the obligations and rights of the national parliaments under the Treaty of Lisbon – which is a 'Treaty of the parliaments' – which enhance their role in the political processes of the EU. Members note with satisfaction that relations with the national parliaments and their members have developed fairly positively in recent years, but not yet to a sufficient extent. With regard to future relations , the Parliament is of the opinion that new forms of pre- and post-legislative dialogue between the European Parliament and national parliaments should be developed. It urges national parliaments to: strengthen their efforts to hold national governments to account for their management of the spending of EU funds; scrutinise the quality of national impact assessments and the manner in which national governments transpose EU law into domestic law and implement EU policies and funding programmes at the level of the state, regions and local authorities; monitor rigorously the reporting of the national action plans of the Lisbon agenda. MEPs deem it appropriate to offer national parliaments support in their scrutiny of draft legislation prior to its consideration by the Union legislature, as well as in the effective scrutiny of their governments when they are acting in the Council. The resolution states that regular bilateral Joint Committee Meetings of corresponding specialised committees allow for dialogue to take place at an early stage on legislation or political initiatives and should therefore be developed systematically into a permanent network of corresponding committees. Such meetings can be accompanied by ad hoc bilateral committee meetings to deal with specific national concerns. MEPs recommend granting an adequate budget to organise meetings of specialised committees with corresponding committees of national parliaments and of European Parliament rapporteurs with their counterparts in national parliaments. They also recommend examining the possibility of establishing the technical facilities for holding videoconferences between the rapporteurs in the specialised committees of the national parliaments and the European Parliament. In this context, they recommend appropriate financial support for the electronic platform for the exchange of information between parliaments, the IPEX website . The Parliament envisages more systematic monitoring of the pre-legislative dialogue between the national parliaments and the Commission ( the "Barroso initiative" ) in order to be informed about the national parliaments' position at an early stage of the legislative process. It calls on national parliaments to make the opinions they issue in this context available to the European Parliament at the same time. It also calls for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Western European Union (WEU) to be dissolved as soon as the WEU has been absorbed fully into the EU with the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty. Role of COSAC : lastly, the Parliament considers that the political role of the Conference of Community and European Affairs Committees of Parliaments of the European Union (COSAC) in the future will have to be defined by close cooperation between the European Parliament and the national parliaments, and that COSAC should remain primarily a forum for the exchange of information and debate on general political issues and best practices with regard to the scrutiny of national governments. Moreover, it considers that information and debate should be focused, secondly, on legislative activities pertaining to the area of freedom, security and justice and on respect of the principle of subsidiarity at European Union level. According to MEPs, specialised committees should be more strongly involved in the preparation of, and representation at, COSAC meetings.
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  • 8.10 Revision of the Treaties, intergovernmental conferences
  • 8.40.11 Relations with Member State governments and national parliaments
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8.10
Revision of the Treaties, intergovernmental conferences
8.40.11
Relations with Member State governments and national parliaments
activities/0/committees/2/date
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  • 2009-01-21T00:00:00
  • 2008-05-06T00:00:00
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2009-01-21T00:00:00
activities/0/committees/2/rapporteur/1
group
ALDE
name
SAVI Toomas
activities/1/committees/2/date
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  • 2009-01-21T00:00:00
  • 2008-05-06T00:00:00
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2009-01-21T00:00:00
activities/1/committees/2/rapporteur/1
group
ALDE
name
SAVI Toomas
committees/2/date
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  • 2009-01-21T00:00:00
  • 2008-05-06T00:00:00
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2009-01-21T00:00:00
committees/2/rapporteur/1
group
ALDE
name
SAVI Toomas
other/0/dg/title
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Secretariat General
New
Secretariat-General
activities
  • date: 2008-05-22T00:00:00 body: EP type: Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading committees: body: EP responsible: True committee: AFCO date: 2008-05-19T00:00:00 committee_full: Constitutional Affairs rapporteur: group: PPE-DE name: BROK Elmar body: EP responsible: False committee: AFET date: 2008-05-30T00:00:00 committee_full: Foreign Affairs rapporteur: group: ALDE name: DUFF Andrew body: EP responsible: False committee: DEVE date: 2009-01-21T00:00:00 2008-05-06T00:00:00 committee_full: Development rapporteur: group: PSE name: BERMAN Thijs group: ALDE name: SAVI Toomas body: EP responsible: False committee_full: Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs committee: LIBE
  • date: 2009-03-09T00:00:00 body: EP committees: body: EP responsible: True committee: AFCO date: 2008-05-19T00:00:00 committee_full: Constitutional Affairs rapporteur: group: PPE-DE name: BROK Elmar body: EP responsible: False committee: AFET date: 2008-05-30T00:00:00 committee_full: Foreign Affairs rapporteur: group: ALDE name: DUFF Andrew body: EP responsible: False committee: DEVE date: 2009-01-21T00:00:00 2008-05-06T00:00:00 committee_full: Development rapporteur: group: PSE name: BERMAN Thijs group: ALDE name: SAVI Toomas body: EP responsible: False committee_full: Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs committee: LIBE type: Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • date: 2009-03-13T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A6-2009-133&language=EN type: Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading title: A6-0133/2009 body: EP type: Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
  • date: 2009-05-06T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?secondRef=TOC&language=EN&reference=20090506&type=CRE type: Debate in Parliament title: Debate in Parliament body: EP type: Debate in Parliament
  • date: 2009-05-07T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/sda.do?id=16899&l=en type: Results of vote in Parliament title: Results of vote in Parliament url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P6-TA-2009-388 type: Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading title: T6-0388/2009 body: EP type: Results of vote in Parliament
committees
  • body: EP responsible: True committee: AFCO date: 2008-05-19T00:00:00 committee_full: Constitutional Affairs rapporteur: group: PPE-DE name: BROK Elmar
  • body: EP responsible: False committee: AFET date: 2008-05-30T00:00:00 committee_full: Foreign Affairs rapporteur: group: ALDE name: DUFF Andrew
  • body: EP responsible: False committee: DEVE date: 2009-01-21T00:00:00 2008-05-06T00:00:00 committee_full: Development rapporteur: group: PSE name: BERMAN Thijs group: ALDE name: SAVI Toomas
  • body: EP responsible: False committee_full: Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs committee: LIBE
links
other
  • body: EC dg: url: http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/secretariat_general/index_en.htm title: Secretariat General commissioner: BARROSO José Manuel
procedure
dossier_of_the_committee
AFCO/6/62315
reference
2008/2120(INI)
title
Development of the relations between the European Parliament and national parliaments under the Treaty of Lisbon
legal_basis
stage_reached
Procedure completed
subtype
Initiative
type
INI - Own-initiative procedure
subject