Nav 4-2: Tracking a legislative process

Length	Browsing: 25 minutes Reporting: 20 minutes
Goal	To gain a better understanding of how legislative decision-making procedures evolve in practice. To learn how to navigate the EP’s Legislative Observatory and get acquainted with Pre-lex.
Introduction	In this exercise, you will follow the legislative track of a piece of legislation adopted under the ordinary legislative procedure. The European Parliament has a very useful website that allows you to follow the legislative steps as well as summarizes the major events in every stage of the procedure.
Steps	Go to the EP’s Legislative Observatory search form. Leave the search field empty and press OK. You will now get a list with all documents and on the left and a menu allowing you to refine your search. Under Parliamentary Term select ‘9^th term 2014-2019’ Under Type of legislative act select ‘Regulation’ or ‘Directive’ Under Procedure status select ‘Completed’ Click on any of the decisions adopted. You will now get an overview of the different stages and a summaries for each stage. (There may also be a link to Pre-Lex, the Commission’s database. This allows you to further scrutinize the stages of the procedure.)
Questions	Using Oeil (and if necessary Pre-Lex), summarize the different steps in the procedure and compare them to the sequence set out in figure 4.1 of the book. To what extent has the original proposal been modified by the Council and/ or the EP? Make use of the summaries offered on the Oeil website in order to answer this question.
Links	https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/search/search.do# http://ec.europa.eu/prelex/apcnet.cfm?CL=en

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