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New Rules of Procedure for Conference of National Parliaments

By Bartolus

National Parliaments, having long been sidelined either by the executives of the member States or by the European Parliament itself, are making a comeback in European affairs.

Back in July 2006 we noted how the Commission intended to send all proposals to national parliaments. And then there are the even greater changes to be made by the Lisbon-Reform Treaty we noted here.

But there's one organization that already works and that is the Conference of Community and European Affairs Committees of Parliaments of the European Union, known as COSAC. It was established in November 1989. It drew up some non-binding guidelines in 2003 known as the "Copenhagen Parliamentary Guidelines" to set out how coöperation should work.

The new Rules of Procedure of COSAC - drawn up in May 2003 - have just been published ! Never too late to be transparent.

Full post as published by EU Law Blog on February 02, 2008 (boomark / email).