Rolul Parlamentului European din perspectiva Tratatului de la Lisabona
The Role of European Parliament According to the Lisbon Treaty

Summary/Abstract: This paper outlines the role of the European Parliament, both through the attributions granted to it in the treaties as well as through the collaboration with other institutions or organisms of the Union. The attributions discussed upon in the paper are: the control and supervision on communitarian actions and on the institutions of the European Union, legislative attributions, budgetary attributions, the right to examine petitions, the appointment and control of the activity of the European Mediator, attributions in the field of foreign policy and common security and in the field of police and legal cooperation in criminal matters, the modification of treaties by means of an ordinary revision procedure or by means of a simplified revision procedure. The collaboration with other institutions is carried out through a series of procedures such as: the adoption of the communitarian budget, the ordinary legislative procedure and the favorable assent. The paper also analyzes the European citizens’ possibilities to contact the European Parliament: access to documents, information offices, organized visits, petitions, the Citizen’s mailing service. At last, but not least, the paper refers to the relationships between the European Parliament and national parliaments, regulated by the Lisbon Treaty enforced as of December 1st, 2009.

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