Adoption of the Euro-Amendment and Lisbon-Amendment of the Rules of Procedure of the Chamber of Deputies (Sources, Circumstances and Basic Content of the Provisions on Integration)
Abstract
European Affairs Committee of the Czech Chamber of Deputies focused its activities during the period from entry into the EU on the debates of secondary legislative documents, including preliminary or non-binding papers and on the overall EU policy. The similar practice in all the national parliaments dispersed into various objections to drafts, which could not be united and validly reflected in the EU institutions.
After the Lisbon, national parliaments may unite on the objection of subsidiarity. All national parliaments have the power to turn to the EU institutions with their view that a legislative proposal contravenes the principle of subsidiarity.
The (so called Lisbon) amendment of the Rules of Procedure of the Czech Chamber of Deputies adopted the specific procedure for the adoption of a "reasoned opinion" on subsidiarity. The opinion must be accepted by the plenary, or by the committee (if the draft does not go to the plenary).
Other parts of the Rules of Procedure amendment include other procedures, provided by the Protocol of subsidiarity. The most important part of the amendment was the implementation of procedures according to "evolutionary clauses".
Similar as according to the British Act the Czech Chamber of Deputies (and also the Senate) must give explicit prior consent of evolutionary clauses, simplified revision procedures, and in addition, the flexibility clause.