Rules of Procedure

Rules of Procedure are formal descriptions about the way an institution works. It is very helpful to know that when you deal with state organisations.

EU institutions

General

• EU Treaties, big pdf, Wikipedia: EU Treaties

• Protocol on the role of national parliaments in the European Union

• FFII Codecision flowchart

• EUROPA Codecision flowchart

European Parliament (EP)

• Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament

  • Rule 61: Rejection of the Common Position - according to Rule 61(2), "Parliament may, on the recommendation of the rapporteur, consider a further proposal for rejection after voting on the amendments and hearing a statement from the Commission pursuant to Rule 62(5)."

• FFII wiki: page about a renewed referral to the EP

Council of the European Community (CEC, Council of the ministers)

Council's Rules of Procedure (CRP)

• pdf: http://europa.eu.int/cgi-bin/eur-lex/udl.pl?REQUEST=Seek-Deliver&COLLECTION=oj&SERVICE=eurlex&LANGUAGE=en&DOCID=2004l106p0022

• html: http://europa.eu.int/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexapi!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=EN&numdoc=32004D0338&model=guichett])

• Summary excerpts: http:ConsRules050308En

Council Guide

• Part II: Comments on the Council's Rules of Procedure

Analysis of the Council Rules

• FFII: Council's Rules of Procedure: Can any member state object an A-item?

• Council vote reversal Howto

• report (formal legal analysis of Council vote and the possibilities of reversal 2004-05-18)http://fajardolopez.com/informes/Fajardolopez.com_18th-May-EU-Council-voting.pdf

Other institutions

• diagram patent granting process

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• EUR-LEX: Legislative Process

• The Council of the European Union's Codecision-Guide

• The Treaty of Nice (in force since 2003-02-01) (pdf download)

• TREATY ESTABLISHING THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (consolidated version)

• The Treaty of Accession (signed Athens 2003-04-16)

• SCADPLUS Glossary

• euireland: Enlargement and institutional changes