Co-operation procedure
- European Parliament in Brussels (Photo: EP)
The co-operation procedure allows the EU Parliament to influence a minor part of the lawmaking in the EU (Article 252 TEC). This procedure derives from the Single European Act of 1987.
If the Europen Parliament proposes amendments, the Council can only reject them by voting unanimously. Since the Treaty of Nice entered into force, this procedure only remains for EMU matters.
The future
The rejected Constitution, as well as the Lisbon Treaty, abolishes this procedure and use co-decision or consultation instead. The Co-decision procedure is called the "ordinary legislative procedure" in the Lisbon Treaty.
