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5) EU Law-Making (Flashcards)
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- 1What is EU secondary law?Regulations, directives, decisions and recommendations/opinions.
Article 288 TFEU - 2Who is the EU legislature?Historically - legislative power lied in the Council adopting legislative proposals from the Commission.
Now - through treaty amendments the role of the EU Parliament in law-making has increased. - 3How has the legislative power of the European Parliament increased?SEA - introduced the 'co-operation procedure' - where applicable the Parliament became a third actor in law-making.
TEU - introduced the 'co-decision procedure' - Parliament now had power to veto the adoption of legislative measures (no law could be adopted without its approval).
Treaty of Lisbon - introduced the notion of an 'ordinary legislative procedure' cemented the 'co-decision procedure'. - 4Which articles can you see the Parliament's increased power?Article 14(1) TEU
Article 16(1) TEU
Article 289 TFEU - 5What is the legal base?Any new EU law must be based on one or more articles of the Union’s founding treaties
- 6Ordinary Legislative Procedure (OLP)Introduced by TEU - now stated in Article 289 TFEU.
Procedure has strong emphasis on compromise and dialogue to reach a common ground.
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