Politologiczna analiza stosowania unijnego mechanizmu wczesnego ostrzegania przez Sejm i Senat RP w latach 2010–2016
Political analysis of using the EU early warning mechanism by the Sejm and the Senate in the years 2010-2016

Summary/Abstract: Main argument raised against EU early warning mechanism is its low utility. Yellow card procedure has been launched three times so far, whereas orange card procedure not even once. Thisindicates that the potential of political instrument which is early-warning mechanism is not fullyexplored. Nonetheless after seven years since the Lisbon Treaty came into force we can collectenough data in order to asses not only the mechanism itself but also the influence of this instrumenton the national parliament scrutiny and engagement in the EU affairs. The aim of this article is: toresearch how the Sejm and Senate use the early warning mechanism, describe what is its impacton general competences of the Polish parliament regarding subsidiarity control and to confront this assessment with the activity of other national parliaments. Thus, the author will propose theset of indicators according to which will be possible to evaluate the activity and eventually theeffectiveness of national parliaments while using the early warning mechanism. There will be alsopresented the results of the empirical study measuring the activity of Sejm and Senate in mentionedarea in the years 2010-2016.

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