Book Launch "The European Parliament and Delegated Legislation"

An Institutional Balance Perspective

This book revisits the Treaty of Lisbon’s promise to further parliamentarize the EU’s functioning by looking into the Treaty-law framework governing the delegation of legislative power in the EU. In this field, the Lisbon Treaty formally greatly strengthened the position of the European Parliament vis-à-vis both the European Commission and the Council. 

This book launch will take place in a hybrid format (in-person or online).

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The book explores whether Parliament’s formally reinforced role is reflected in the actual balance of powers in the area of delegated legislation and executive rule-making. It does so by assessing how both the law and practice of decision-making at the legislative level, looking at specific case studies, and the sub-legislative level, examining the scrutiny over delegated legislation, has crystallized in the ten years following the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty. This rigorous study gives a fascinating insight into one of the most significant developments in European parliamentary law-making, which EU constitutional lawyers will find required reading.
 

Merijn Chamon is Assistant Professor of EU Law at Maastricht University and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium.
 

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Programme

16.00h Welcome
16.30h Book presentation by Merijn Chamon and discussion by Gregor Schusterschitz and Maria José Martinez Iglesias
17.30h End
  • Maria José Martinez Iglesias is Director General of the European Parliament's Directorate-General for Security and Safety. From May 2014 to February 2021, she was the Director for Legislative Affairs in the Legal Service.
  • Gregor Schusterschitz is the Deputy Permanent Representative to the EU for the Republic of Austria
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