A Reporter's Guide to the EU by Sigrid Melchior Stephen Gardner

Author:Sigrid Melchior, Stephen Gardner [Sigrid Melchior, Stephen Gardner]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317192817
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-05-08T00:00:00+00:00

What procedure applies?

Knowing what decision-making procedure applies to an EU initiative is crucial to evaluate the news value of an event. If the European Parliament rejects a proposal and it thereby falls, it is news. If the parliament is merely expressing its opinion, it is of course less interesting.

The easiest way to find out is to call someone who knows and ask them, such as the press people in the relevant European Parliament committee or in the Council of Ministers. If you look up the parliament report in the institution’s Legislative Observatory (read more in chapter 9), you can see the procedure type under the heading ‘basic information’. Also, all reports in parliament are assigned a reference number and the last three letters indicate the procedure:

COD = ordinary procedure

CNS = consultation procedure

APP = consent procedure

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