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QUALITY OF LEGISLATIVE PROCESS. Building a conceptual model and developing indicators

The report summarises the situation in the parliamentary systems of Belgium (two chambers), Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, Latvia and Slovakia, and is accompanied by three separate case study reports covering northern, central and southern EU. It maps the end-to-end process in each country from introduction to promulgation of primary legislation, to describe the steps, rules, procedures and standards, and the support to parliamentarians in performing their roles. In doing so, the thematic expert group (TEG) remained mindful of comparable processes in government, especially regarding openness, use of evidence, impact assessment and stakeholder engagement. It also considered whether the source of legislative initiatives (government, parliament, citizen), category of legislation (e.g. organic law, constitutional amendment) and subject of legislation (e.g. healthcare, defence) could have an impact on the model and indicators. Based on these parliamentary practices, the TEG has proposed a conceptual model which is structured on five key principles: integrity (in the sense of soundness and wholeness) ; transparency ; inclusiveness ; robustness and rigour ; and predictability and regularity. Each principle was then elaborated as two or three topics, resulting in the presentation here of 28 proposed practical and operable indicators, each of which is assessed on a ‘hanging fruit’ scale of 1 (very low) to 4 (medium-high).

legislative process, legislation, lawmaking, quality of legislation, rulemaking

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