According to Article 7 of the Protocol [No. 2] on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, the minimum needed to launch the yellow card procedure for proposals relating to the area of freedom, security and justice, based on Article 76 TFEU, constituted, as of 28.10.2013, 14 votes of national parliaments / chambers of national parliaments.
On the basis of the data uploaded by national parliaments to the IPEX database, 14 parliaments / chambers, representing, in the light of the Protocol no. 2, a total of 18 votes, sent reasoned opinions on:
COM(2013) 534 final version
Proposal for a Council regulation on the establishment of the European Public Prosecutor's Office
Legislative process: EUR-Lex Legislative Observatory
- Date of adoption of the proposal by the European Commission – 17.07.2013
- Date of transmission of the last language version of the proposal – 21.08.2013
- Deadline for subsidiarity scrutiny – 28.10.2013
The following parliaments /chambers adopted reasoned opinions:
Chamber of Representatives (CY, 2 votes), Senate, (CZ, 1 vote), Senate (FR, 1 vote), National Assembly (HU, 2 votes), Houses of the Oireachtas (IE, 2 votes), Chamber of Representatives (MT, 2 votes), Chamber of Representatives and Senate (NL, 2 votes), Chamber of Deputies (RO, 1 vote), National Assembly (SI, 1 vote), Riksdag (SE, 2 votes), House of Commons and House of Lords (UK, 2 votes).
Resoned opinions on COM(2013) 534 in IPEX
- European Commission action:
- 6.11.2013 - EC meeting Minutes, point 4.1 ix), p. 10 - confirmation of triggering of the subsidiarity control mechanism of Article 7(2) of Protocol No 2
- 12.11.2013, letter from Jordi Ayet Puigarnau, director in the Directorate A of the EC Secretariat General - confirmation of reaching the threshold provided for in Protocol No. 2
- 27.11.2013, COM(2013) 851 - decision on maintaining COM(2013) 534 as complying with the principle of subsidiarity
