Better Lawmaking
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EU decision-making can be difficult to understand. The institutions therefore committed themselves to make the lawmaking process more simple, transparent and easy to understand. The Council, the EU Commission and the European Parliament have negotiated an inter-institutional agreement on better lawmaking.
Notes
The Commission publishes an annual report on better lawmaking.
The future
The EU Constitution proposed to limit the legal acts of the Union to European law, European framework law, decisions, regulations, recommendations and opinions. The Lisbon Treaty inserted the old regulalations and directives again and invented new delegated acts.
It also proposes the co-decision procedure as the common rule and the abolition of the co-operationprocedure in favour of EU-consultation and co-decision procedures.
Links
See also Simplification and Codification and consolidation
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