Report from the Commission on Subsidiarity and Proportionality (19th report on Better Lawmaking covering the year 2011)

This is the nineteenth annual report on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality in EU lawmaking. It is presented in accordance with Article 9 of the Protocol (No 2) on the application of these principles attached to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).

As in previous years, the report looks at how the principles are implemented by the different EU institutions and bodies - the Commission, the European Parliament, the Council and the Committee of the Regions - and presents in more detail some Commission initiatives and legislative proposals which have raised subsidiarity issues during 2011.

It also examines how the subsidiarity control mechanism, which under Article 12 of the TEU and the Protocol gives national Parliaments a particular role in scrutiny of the principle of subsidiarity, has developed since the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty. Given the close links between the subsidiarity control mechanisms and the political dialogue between national Parliaments and the Commission, this report should be seen as complementary to the Commission's annual report for 2011 on relations with national Parliaments.

EUR-Lex: COM(2012)373: Follow the progress of this document through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2012:373:FIN

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