ABSTRACT
Summary 188
6.1 Introduction 189
6.2 Legislative proposals 190
6.3 The consultation procedure 192
6.4 The co-decision procedure: Article 251 EC 193
6.5 The assent procedure 198
6.6 The Council’s power to legislate alone 198
6.7 The Commission’s own powers of legislation and those delegated to it by the Council 199
6.8 The procedures relating to the social partners dialogue between management and labour: Articles 138 and 139(2) EC 201
Aide-mémoire 202
SUMMARY
1. This chapter focuses on the main decision-making procedures in the Community. Apart from situations where the Council or the Commission are empowered to adopt legislative acts alone, the legislative process in the Community involves the participation of different institutions at different stages of the process. The majority of legislative acts are adopted as a result of an interinstitutional dialogue involving the Commission, the Council and the EP. 2. Legislative acts are usually initiated by the Commission, although in exceptional cases the initiative is shared with the European Central Bank (Article 111 EC) or the Council acts on its own initiative. Further, the EP (Article 192(2) EC) and the Council (Article 208 EC) may request the Commission to submit any appropriate legislative proposal.
