European Parliament and Delegated Legislation - (Parliamentary Democracy in Europe) by Merijn Chamon (Hardcover)

About the Book

"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-áa-vis both the European Commission and the Council. 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" --

Book Synopsis

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. 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.

Review Quotes

"The work of Merijn Chamon is a valuable study for anyone interested in EU law, since it offers both a descriptive account of the different types of acts [under the Lisbon Treaty] and their procedures, as well as offering a reflection on the challenges, problems and solutions which these new categories of acts may produce. (Bloomsbury Translation)" --Sylvain Thiery, Université de Lille, Revue Trimestrielle de Droit Européen

"The book is bold and provocative in its findings ... Few works have confronted EU law scholarship as powerfully with the essential question that [Merijn] Chamon asks throughout. That is the question of where the boundary lies between institutional practice and institutional balance - or, put differently, between power dynamics that legitimately evolve under a living constitution and power grabs that illegitimately prevent constitutional reform from being brought to life ... The book challenges EU law scholarship to engage in a much more profound debate about institutional balance in practice. Few could have initiated that debate as expertly as Chamon." --Common Market Law Review

About the Author

Merijn Chamon is Professor of EU Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium.