HOW WILL CHANGE THE ROLE OF THE NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION WITH THE ENTRY INTO FORCE OF THE LISBON TREATY?
HOW WILL CHANGE THE ROLE OF THE NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION WITH THE ENTRY INTO FORCE OF THE LISBON TREATY?

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with the provisions on the national parliaments in the Lisbon Treaty1, which after a highly drawn out ratification process finally entered into force on 1 December 2009. These provisions of the Lisbon Treaty are of major importance for the national parliaments of the Member States since for the first time2 in the European integration they give the national parliaments direct role in the legislative procedure of the European Union. The provisions are intended to ‗encourage greater involvement of national parliaments in the activities of the European Union and to enhance their ability to express their views on draft legislative acts of the Union as well as on other matters which may be of particular interest to them‘.3 Before analysing and evaluating these new provisions, it is necessary to refer to the recent judgement of the German Constitutional Court which laid down a number of conditions that had to be fulfilled in order to the German President signs the instruments of ratification of the Lisbon Treaty.

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