ABSTRACT
It has simplified the law making process by establishing an ordinary legislative procedure (which was previously known as the co-decision procedure) as a standard procedure for adopting legislative acts. This procedure ensures that the EP is put on an equal footing with the Council with the result that no act can be adopted without both bodies’ agreement. The word “ordinary” emphasises that this procedure has become the predominant way of adopting EU legislation. The remaining procedures are called “special procedures”. Two of them involve the EP, i.e. the consent procedure (which was previously known as the assent procedure) and the consultation procedure.
