A KONZULTÁCIÓTÓL AZ EGYÜTTDÖNTÉSIG Az Európai Parlament megnövekedett szerepe a Közös Agrárpolitika jogalkotásában
FROM CONSULTATION TO CODECISION: THE ENHANCED ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT IN LEGISLATION FOR THE COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY

Summary/Abstract: The role of the European Parliament in the EU decision-making and legislative process has long been a topic of analysis by political science. Part of those analyses study the relative strength of the EP and the two other institutions, namely the Commission and the Council, also participating in the various lawmaking procedures such as consultations, cooperation and codecision. The codecision procedure, introduced by the Maastricht Treaty is broadly considered as having enhanced the strength of the EP in European Union legislation. The subsequent treaties of the EU, such as the ones of Amsterdam, Nice and Lisbon have mostly enhanced the role of the EP by extending the validity of the codecision procedure over further areas. The current paper studies the infl uence of the EP on legislation in the codecision procedure, already a regular law-making procedure, extended over the most signifi cant joint policy of the EU, namely the Common Agricultural Policy, and more specifi cally its interest-asserting ability against the Council. The central issue of the study is to fi nd out what the chances are of the proposals for modifi cation approved by the EP to be incorporated into the fi nal legal norm after negotiations with the Council.

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