Instrumente pentru sporirea transparenţei procesului legislativ la nivelul Uniunii Europene. Reflecţii asupra câtorva aspecte vizate de noul acord interinstituţional privind o mai bună legiferare (Tools Used to Enhance Transparency in Legislative Process at European Union Level. Comments on Certain Issues Covered by the New Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making)

Abstract

Romanian Abstract: Articolul încadrează noul acord interinstituţional privind o mai bună legiferare – încheiat între Parlamentul European, Consiliul Uniunii Europene şi Comisia Europeană – în contextul mai general al transparenţei proceselor decizionale de la nivelul Uniunii Europene, urmând în mod particular direcţii enunţate în jurisprudenţa Curţii de Justiţie a Uniunii Europene. Acest nou acord interinstituţional urmăreşte realizarea unei legiferări mai bune prin intermediul unei serii de iniţiative şi proceduri precizate în acesta. Sunt abordate direcţii principale ale acestui instrument, încercându-se un răspuns privind noutatea acestor aspecte: este oare noul acord interinstituţional novator sau, dimpotrivă, va continua abordarea actuală?

English Abstract: The article places the new Interinstitutional Agreement on better law-making – concluded between the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission – in the broader context of transparency of the decision-making process of the European Union, more specifically by having regard to lines of case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union. This new interinstitutional agreement aims at achieving better law-making by employing various initiatives and procedures set out therein. The main directions of the instrument will be dealt with, and a tentative answer to the following question concerning the novelty of those issues will be attempted: Is this interinstitutional agreement innovative or, conversely, will it maintain the status quo?

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Keywords: Interinstitutional Agreement on better law-making, transparency, decision-making process, legislative process, obligation to state reasons, legislative initiative, impact assessment, substantial amendment to the Commission proposal, right to withdraw a proposal for a legislative act, “trilogue”

JEL Classification: K10