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Review clauses in EU legislation adopted during the second half of the ninth parliamentary term (January 2022-September 2024) - A Rolling Check-List
Reviews of existing legislation provide an evidence-based assessment of the performance of policies and legislation. Review findings support political decision-making and inform the design of possible future revisions. The systematic review of legislation has become a key policy-making tool at the EU level, most notably in the context of the EU's better regulation agenda. This rolling check-list has been published periodically since 2014. It contributes to the European Ϸվ's scrutiny of the ...
We first discuss why and how banking supervisors should be held accountable for their activities, then consider the case of the ECB /SSM to report on the academic debate on its faults and merits. We also review the main accountability channels between the ECB and the EP, showing how they have been used since 2014. Finally, we outline some possible steps to improve the ECB’s accountability in the short term.
European Ϸվ's scrutiny of the European Council: The use of Ϸվ resolutions
Resolutions are an essential way for the European Ϸվ to express its views on political processes, EU policies and developments in the world. Ϸվ also uses them to scrutinise other EU institutions, including the European Council. The need for accountability and increased scrutiny of the European Council has been a constant theme in the European Ϸվ's resolutions throughout the 2019-2024 legislative term. The increased need to scrutinise the European Council also results from ...
Ϸվary scrutiny of the SRB - Discretion in applying the resolution objectives and mechanisms for accountability to Ϸվ
The Single Resolution Board (SRB) possesses statutory, formal independence by law, and its decisions are guided by a set of objectives whose application requires interpretation and trade-offs. The resulting discretion is balanced by accountability to the EU Institutions, and in particular, to the European Ϸվ. To support parliamentary scrutiny of the SRB during the 10th parliamentary term, this briefing presents the provisions on accountability in the SRB’s founding legislation and analyses ...
Examples of Ϸվ's impact: 2019 to 2024 - Illustrating the powers of the European Ϸվ
As the European Union's only directly elected institution, the European Ϸվ stands at the heart of European representative democracy, the foundation upon which the EU is built. Since its creation, the Ϸվ's powers have evolved significantly, and it is now a fully fledged legislative body and forum for discussion and engagement, whose influence is felt in virtually all areas of EU activity. This paper offers an overview of the European Ϸվ's main powers, demonstrating how they ...
European Ϸվ work in the fields of Impact Assessment and European Added Value - Activity Report for 2022
This activity report summarises and explains the work undertaken by the European Ϸվ in the fields of impact assessment and European added value during the calendar year 2022. It details the support given by the Directorate for Impact Assessment and European Added Value within the European Ϸվary Research Service (EPRS) to assist parliamentary committees in their oversight and scrutiny of the executive in the fields of ex-ante impact assessment, European added value, and ex-post evaluation ...
September 2022 Monetary Dialogue: Summary of parliamentary scrutiny activities
This briefing provides a summary of all scrutiny activities of the European Ϸվ related to euro area monetary policy in the period between the June and September Monetary Dialogues (MDs), along with a recap of the key monetary policy decisions taken by the European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) Governing Council in that period. Such summaries will be published regularly after each MD.
Review clauses in EU legislation adopted during the first half of the ninth parliamentary term (2019-2024) - A Rolling Check-List
Reviews of existing legislation provide an evidence-based assessment of the performance of policies and legislation. Review findings support political decision-making and inform the design of possible future revisions. The systematic review of legislation has become a key policy-making tool at EU level, most notably in the context of the EU's better regulation agenda. This rolling check-list has been published periodically since 2014. It contributes to the European Ϸվ's scrutiny of the European ...
Tracking the EU Commissioners’ commitments - Von der Leyen Commission, 2019 - 2024
This document is a compilation of briefings that track the commitments made by the Vice-Presidents and Commissioners to the European Ϸվ – in their written answers to Ϸվ’s questions, at their hearings, and, in some cases, in subsequent appearances before Ϸվ’s committees. The document provides an overview of the state-of-play at the mid-term of the von der Leyen Commission. Since many of these commitments were made, major international crises have shifted some political priorities ...
Survey on the role of national parliaments in the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility
Ϸվary scrutiny is important to ensure full transparency and accountability and to enhance the democratic legitimacy, as well as to sense of citizens' ownership of the RRF. This survey aims to keep stock of whether and how EU national parliaments are involved in the implementation of the RRF. This document was prepared by Economic Governance Support Unit in view of the INI Report on the Recovery and Resilience Facility