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AUC IURIDICA, Vol 50 No 1 (2004), 59–73
Smlouva zakládající Ústavu pro Evropu jako smlouva podle čl. 10a Ústavy české republiky a role národních parlamentů v ní
[Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe as a Treaty According to Art. 10a of the Czech Constitution and a Role of National Parliaments According to This Treaty]
Jan Kysela
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23366478.2025.31
published online: 14. 02. 2025
abstract
The substance of European integration is very dynamic. One of the most important steps of this process is the draft of the Treaty establishing the Constitution for Europe. The Czech Republic participated in the work and debates of the Convention on the Future of Europe through the activity of representatives of both chambers of the Parliament and the Government. These bodies also reflected and discussed the draft of the constitutional treaty, however by different ways. The Government and the Senate elaborated complex positions in written form, the House of Deputies only debated the draft in committees and in plenary session. The draft of the constitutional treaty strengthens the “European” role of national parliaments in many aspects. As an addition to modified Protocol on the role of national parliaments in the EU the draft creates new mechanism for the subsidiarity check. National parliaments will be also integral part of the decision-making in respect to two clauses: the flexibility clause and clause passerrelle. The Czech constitution contained in the article 10b framework for two alternatives of the cooperation between the Parliament and the Government in European matters. Alternative 1 presupposes joint committee of both chambers, alternative 2, which has been preferred, means autonomous activity of each chamber. In 2003 the Parliament has started the debate on the drafts of standing orders of both chambers, which are a little different. We can expect, that not only the European Constitution, but also the Czech one will minimalize the so called democratic deficit of the EU and its decision-making.
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