The article presents a dataset on the legislative procedure in European Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) and a new method of data processeing. The dataset contains information on 529 procedures ...proposed between January 1998 and December 2017. For each of the legislative proposals, the dataset identifies the main elements of the legislative procedure (e.g., dates, types of procedure, directory codes and subcodes, actors, voting results, amendments, legal basis, etc.) and the changes introduced at each step of the legislative process from the text proposed by the European Commission to the final version published in the Official Journal of the European Union. This information has been gathered using text mining techniques. The dataset is relevant for a broad range of research questions regarding the EU decision-making process in JHA related to the balance of powers between European institutional actors and their capacity to influence the legislative outputs.
European Union legislative decision-making is increasingly shifted into informal secluded arenas. Scholars have explained this trend and analysed its consequences for bargaining success and ...democratic legitimacy. Yet, we know little about how informalisation affects legislative behaviour in the European Parliament. This article contributes to closing the gap, by theorising and analysing the impact of ‘early agreements’ on cohesion. Given the reputational, political and transaction costs of failing an early agreement in plenary, we expect political groups to invest heavily in discipline and consensus, and legislators to comply in votes. Using a new dataset, combining Hix et al.’s (2007) roll-call data with original codecision data (1999–2011), we show that informalisation increases cohesion but only for centrist parties. Rapporteurships and votes on ‘costly’ legislative resolutions also matter, but do not mediate the effect of early agreement.
Over the last 20 years, the political dynamics in EU legislative policy-making have fundamentally changed as trilogues have become the major forum for legislative negotiations. From this perspective, ...this article represents a first systematic review of the literature on trilogues by using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses. In doing so, it demonstrates the impact of trilogues on EU legislative politics, both intra- and inter-institutionally, as well as the normative concerns they have raised. It also shows that trilogues do not yet constitute uniform practices. Further, this article identifies the limits of our knowledge and therefore avenues for future research to improve our understanding of EU legislative politics.
Este trabajo realiza una revisión crítica de la novedosa regulación del procedimiento legislativo en lectura única del Reglamento parlamentario de la Asamblea Regional de Murcia. Esta nueva normativa ...corrige alguno de los importantes errores técnicos que contenía la anterior, pero pierde la oportunidad de subsanar otros e, incluso, agrava algunos de los ya existentes. Se hace propuesta de lege ferenda.
This paper makes a critical review of the new regulation of the legislative procedure in single reading included in the 2019 parliamentary regulation of the Murcia Regional Assembly. This new regulation corrects some of the important technical errors contained in the previous regulation, but it loses the opportunity to correct others and even aggravates some of the existing ones. A lege ferenda proposal is made.
This article undertakes a summary explanation of the European Parliament (EP), the only EU Institution elected by universal suffrage by 450 million European citizens across 27 Member States. ...Therefore, EP does not show any democratic deficit or lack of powers: it is EU budgetary authority; European legislator; it legitimises and controls the European Commission by investing its Presidency and the entire College; it examines each of its Commissioners-designate with its examination and vote before they take office; and it can force them to resign by a collective vote of censure. However, despite its transparency and accessibility, both in presence and by technology, there is still a lack of visibility and communication with the citizens represented by EP. This article analyses this distinctive features of EP, addressing issues such as its election, structure, organisation, dual seat, and members’ prerogatives and immunities, legislative procedure and decision-making, including some thoughts on its ongoing political debates around its present and future developments.
Cet article entreprend un exposé sommaire des particularités institutionnelles,
organisationnelles et procédurales du Parlement européen (PE), élu au suffrage universel
par 450 millions de citoyens européens dans les 27 États membres de l’UE. Il
est non seulement la seule institution européenne directement élective mais aussi le seul parlement démocratiquement légitimé par le vote populaire de son espace de représentation, avec pouvoir législatif et budgétaire et portée supranationale dans
le monde. Le PE ne souffre d’aucun déficit démocratique ou de compétences: autorité
budgétaire; c’est un législateur européen; légitime et contrôle la Commission
européenne), en investissant sa Présidence et le Collège dans son ensemble; examine
chacun de ses membres avec leur vote avant d’accéder au poste; et il peut la forcer
à démissionner en bloc par sa censure. Malgré sa transparence et son accessibilité
physique et technologique, à son activité et à son contrôle, il manque encore de visibilité
et de communication avec les citoyens qu’elle représente. Cet article analyse
les spécificités du PE, abordant des questions telles que son élection, sa structure,
son organisation, son double siège, les prérogatives et immunités de ses membres, ses
procédures législatives et décisionnelles, ainsi qu’une réflexion sur les points centraux
du débat sur son présent et ses développements.
El presente artículo acomete una exposición sumaria de los rasgos institucionales, organizativos y procedimentales distintivos del Parlamento Europeo (PE), elegido por sufragio universal por 450 millones de ciudadanos y ciudadanas europeos en los 27 Estados miembros de la UE, erigiéndose no solo como la única institución europea directamente electiva sino en el único parlamento democráticamente legitimado por el voto popular de su espacio de representación, con potestad legislativa y presupuestaria y alcance supranacional del mundo. El PE no padece ningún déficit democrático ni de competencias: autoridad presupuestaria; es legislador europeo; legitima y controla a la Comisión Europea, invistiendo a su Presidencia y al conjunto del Colegio; examina con su voto a cada uno de sus miembros antes de acceder al cargo; y puede obligarla a dimitir en bloque mediante su censura. Pese a su transparencia y accesibilidad física, y tecnológica, a su actividad y escrutinio, persiste sin embargo un déficit de visibilidad y comunicación con la ciudadanía a la que representa. El presente artículo analiza las especificidades del PE, abordando cuestiones como su elección, estructura, organización, doble sede, prerrogativas e inmunidades de sus miembros, procedimientos legislativos y decisorios, así como una reflexión acerca de los puntos centrales del debate sobre su presente y desarrollos futuros.
On 5 August 2015, at the plenary sitting of the Sejm, was submitted the motion to adopt the Senate’s amendments. Despite obtaining an absolute majority of votes, the Marshal of the Sejm declared ...their rejection by the Sejm. Doubts regarding the compliance with all the requirements of the legislative procedure prompted the President of the Republic of Poland to bring the case to the Constitutional Tribunal for consideration. It was necessary to determine whether the presumption of adoption of the Senate amendment, adopted in the Constitution of 1997, is a regulation on the essential elements of the legislative procedure, violation of which determines unconstitutionality of the legislative act.
El artículo 150 del Reglamento del Congreso de los Diputados establece que, cuando la naturaleza de un proyecto o proposición de ley tomada en consideración lo aconseje o la simplicidad de su ...formulación lo permita, el Pleno de la Cámara, a propuesta de la Mesa, oída la Junta de Portavoces, podrá acordar que se tramite directamente y en lectura única. En este trabajo se analiza, de una parte, si la decisión de optar por este cauce procesal abreviado es un juicio meramente político que debe adoptar el órgano plenario y, si al hacerlo de ese modo, se está dando cumplimiento o no al cometido que el Reglamento Parlamentario encomienda a la Mesa de la Cámara. Concretamente, examinamos si para que el Pleno pueda finalmente decidir que la tramitación de una concreta iniciativa sea a través de esta vía procesal extraordinaria es inexcusable la propuesta previa de la Mesa de la Cámara y si este órgano de gobierno puede y debe revisar la concurrencia de los presupuestos habilitantes previstos por el Reglamento Parlamentario antes de hacer la propuesta. Proponemos al respecto una reinterpretación del alcance de esta facultad de la Mesa separándonos del criterio doctrinal mayoritario. Asimismo, acometemos un análisis detallado de la fase del procedimiento en la que se debe decidir la tramitación de una iniciativa por el procedimiento en lectura única para, seguidamente, plantear aquellas soluciones alternativas que, en nuestro criterio, resultan más oportunas y compatibles con la actual redacción del Reglamento Parlamentario. Finalmente se analiza si la decisión que adopta cada una de las Cámaras acerca de la tramitación de una iniciativa legislativa por esta vía procesal abreviada en un determinado momento y ante la concurrencia de unas concretas circunstancias vincula o no a la otra Cámara con respecto a esa misma iniciativa. Estudiaremos, asimismo, el valor que adquiere el precedente parlamentario en relación a otras iniciativas de similar condición y pondremos de manifiesto la relevancia que alcanza la dicotomía existente entre mayorías simples y reforzadas con respecto a la toma de decisiones relativas a la adopción de este cauce procesal extraordinario.
Comparative research of various state legislative procedure presents a considerable theoretical and practical significance. It allows, on the one hand, the identification of legislation governing ...this legal institution and its analyzing and, for the other hand, the identification of the similarities and differences between these procedures. In this paper we analyze the activity of british parliament and the stages of the legislative procedure United Kingdom, country with bicameral parliaments. The study has considerable theoretical and practical significance, because by understanding the functioning of the legislative process, we can identify what is the role and how the bicameral parliaments contribute to the developing of policy making system. From the analysis that we do, we demonstrate that the structure, functioning and the roles of the two cameras are very different, House of Commons having broader powers regarding the legislative process to the House of Lords.
In the system of multilevel democracy emerging from the Lisbon Treaty, the ordinary legislative procedure (OLP) embodies the idea that it is possible to have democratic law-making in a polity ...characterized by a plurality of organized demoi. This article takes stock of this idea by examining what role democratic aspirations played in the invention of the OLP and how this procedure has affected EU policy-making processes, legislative outputs, and political participation in critical new areas of market regulation. Though the OLP is no silver bullet for EU democracy, it embeds the EU policy-making process in a rule-based logic. Its democratic effects are intimately bound up with the evolving institutions of the so-called legislative trilogues.
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