№09 Assembly of Kosovo: Increasing Efficiency by Improving the Rules of Procedure
№09 Assembly of Kosovo: Increasing Efficiency by Improving the Rules of Procedure

Author(s): Author Not Specified
Subject(s): Politics, Constitutional Law, Governance
Published by: BPRG Balkans Policy Research Group
Keywords: Kosovo parliament; constitutional reform; procedures of Lawmaking; draft-laws; presidency of parliament;
Summary/Abstract: In an attempt to critically examine the path dependent trajectory of Kosovo’s non-reformed RoP, this study moves through various parts. Firstly, it gives an insight into Kosovo parliamentary life and analyses the political reasons behind the delay of the draft RoP. Secondly, it draws out important gaps in the existing RoP vis-a-vis their status in the 2018 draft, as well as evaluates the remaining limitations in the 2018 draft through a synopsis of best-practices from the respective equivalent in Germany, Slovenia and Albania. // The report indistinctively uses parliamentary terms specific to the Kosovar system (President of the Assembly, deputy) and terms with origin in the British parliamentary system, often used in social sciences (House Speaker, Member of Parliament). Generally British terms are employed in a comparative context, when analysing the systems and rules of other countries. In any case, if the term employed is specific of the national context and does not match that employed in the British parliamentary system, its correspondence will be provided to ease understanding. // The study focuses its first and much of the second part on a case analysis of domestic issues. It also features a comparative examination of three case studies. In order to gain a better understanding of best-practices and offer a more nuanced discussion of principles (outside of the working group and the committee), the study compares the RoPs of the German Bundestag, the National Assembly of Slovenia and the Parliament of Albania with the current RoP of the Assembly and the proposed draft.

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