Funkcja europejska parlamentów państw członkowskich Unii Europejskiej
The European Function of National Parliaments of the Member States of the European Union

Summary/Abstract: As a result of the accession to the EU new tasks are assigned to a parliament of a Member State. Inthe literature of the subject, these tasks began to be qualifi ed as a new function of parliament, calledthe European function. Such a distinction is justifi ed by not only the evolution of EU regulations thatincreasingly specify the competencies of national parliaments in EU matters, but also changes in traditionalpowers of parliaments generated by membership in the Communities and, then, the EU, aswell as the emergence of new elements of the European function. The author examines the issue ofassessment of the new tasks of the national parliaments in connection with the ongoing integrationprocesses, which — due to the economic crisis — has received a new dimension (the involvementof parliaments in the EU economic affairs). She also attempts to defi ne a new European function ofnational parliaments and to present its content and the extent of its operation (oversight of the EUlegislative process, including the yellow, orange and red card procedures).

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