document of a legislative nature | legislative document

legislative-executive relations [ executive-legislative | legislative-executive ]

non-statutory publication

legislative programme (EU) [ Community legislative programme ]

legislative power [ legislative authority(GEMET) ]

Legislative Observatory | OEIL [Abbr.]

legislative authority [ basis in legislation | legislative base ]

non-prescriptive legislative framework

comment on legislative acts | help with legislative bills | advise on legislative acts | comment on legislative bills

Points out that, while trilogues are important and effective, the procedures currently applicable to them give rise to concerns as regards the openness in the legislative procedure; calls on the institutions involved to ensure greater transparency of informal trilogues to strengthen democracy by allowing citizens to scrutinise the relevant information which has formed the basis of a legislative act, as stated by the Court of Justice of the European Union in the joined cases Sweden and Turco v Council, while ensuring adequate space to ...[+++] think for the co-legislators; calls on the EU institutions to increase reporting in the competent parliamentary committee on the state of play of trilogue negotiations; considers that where documents are created in the framework of trilogues, such as agendas, summaries of outcomes, minutes and general approaches in the Council, as available, such documents are related to legislative procedures and cannot, in principle, be treated differently from other legislative documents; takes the view that a list of trilogue meetings, and of such aforementioned documents, should be made directly accessible on Parliament’s website; recalls that the future interinstitutional agreement on better law-making includes a database on legislative files and, if adopted, would also address the appropriate handling of trilogues.

Points out that transparent law-making is of the utmost importance to citizens; calls on the institutions to make available documents forming part of, or related to, legislative procedures; considers, in particular, that the EU institutions should make as many documents as possible accessible to the public via their websites, and should consider using Your Europe as a single, publicly accessible EU portal to facilitate consultation.

Regrets that little progress has been made to implement Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 as regards the obligation for the institutions, agencies and other bodies to keep complete registers of documents, as provided for in its Articles 11 and 12 and, ultimately, in the Lisbon Treaty and the Charter of Fundamental Rights; calls for a common approach on registers to be established, and calls on those EU institutions that have not yet established registers of documents to do so, and to implement measures to standardise the classification and presentation of the institutions’ documents; reiterates, in this regard, further to a common access po ...[+++]int to EU documents through the three institutions’ portals, its call for common procedures and criteria for registration and the assignment of an interinstitutional code to each document so that, eventually, a common interinstitutional register, including a dedicated joint database on the state of play of legislative files, could be established.

‘legislative document’ shall mean any document drawn up or received in the course of procedures for the adoption of a legislative act.