Reform of Committee Referral Procedures

by name voted on 13.06.2023

Summary

The European Parliament is updating its rules to speed up how it assigns legislative proposals to committees and resolves disputes between them.

9 13.06.2023

Other

legislative procedure

parliamentary rules of procedure

Key points

All relevant committees must be informed simultaneously when a proposal is referred to a specific committee.
New proposals must be announced in Parliament and published on the official website to ensure transparency.
The deadline for committees to raise conflicts regarding their competence is reduced from four weeks to two weeks.
Weeks without parliamentary activity or dedicated to external activities are excluded from the calculation of conflict-reporting deadlines.

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ID

NI

The Left

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Documents (PDFs)

REPORT on amendments to Parliament’s Rules of Procedure concerning the referral of proposals for legally binding acts to committees and the procedure for solving conflicts of competence Amendments to Parliament’s Rules of Procedure concerning the referral of proposals for legally binding acts to committees and the procedure for solving conflicts of competence

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