CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
Summary
Chapter 1: Introduction
The current role of national parliaments
in the EU
Conduct of the inquiry
Our aim
Implementing improvements
Chapter 2: National scrutiny
Effective national scrutiny
Different systems
Practicalities of scrutiny work
Access to information
Capacity
Prioritisation and resources
Chapter 3: Dialogue with the European Commission
Engagement between national parliaments
and the Commission
Early engagement with policy proposals
Direct contact with Commissioners and officials
Making proposals: a Green Card?
Chapter 4: The Reasoned Opinion procedure
Overview
Box 1: The Reasoned Opinion procedure
Box 2: What is the difference between
a Reasoned Opinion and a Yellow Card?
Table 1: Number of Reasoned Opinions issued
2010-2013
Box 3: Yellow Cards
Scope
Deadline
Commission engagement
Effect
Threshold
Timing
Another aspect of the legislative procedure:
first reading deals
Chapter 5: Inter-parliamentary co-operation
Co-operation with the European Parliament
Forms of inter-parliamentary co-operation
Box 4: Key forms of inter-parliamentary
co-operation
COSAC
Inter-parliamentary conference on CFSP/CSDP
Inter-parliamentary conference on economic
and financial governance
Parliamentary scrutiny of Europol
Parliamentary scrutiny of Eurojust
Informal 'clusters of interest' conferences
Direct contact between parliamentarians
Network of representatives of national parliaments
IPEX (Inter-Parliamentary EU Information
Exchange website)
Chapter 6: Economic and financial governance
'Genuine Economic and Monetary Union'
A democratic deficit?
Providing democratic consent: the role of
national parliaments
Conclusions
Chapter 7: Summary of conclusions and recommendations
Appendix 1: List of Members and Declaration
of Interests
Appendix 2: List of Witnesses
Appendix 3: Call for Evidence
Appendix 4: Evolution of the Role of National
Parliaments
Appendix 5: Note of informal session, Vilnius
COSAC, October 2013
Appendix 6: Written contributions and reasoned
opinions by National Parliaments
Appendix 7: Glossary and list of acronyms
Evidence is published online at http://www.parliament.uk/hleu and
available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives (020 7219 5314)
References in footnotes to the Report are as follows:
Q refers to a question in oral evidence.
Witness names without a question reference refer to written evidence.
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