The Role of the Specialized Committees on European Communities Affairs of the British Parliament

Abstract

This article takes as an example the relationship between the EP and the UK Parliaments in order to illustrate the problems arising in the issue of effective supervision mechanism of the Council and the Commission within the EU decision-making process. It does not involve wider comparison with the specialized committees of other national parliaments in the EU. Thus, it is limited to the example of UK Parliamentary scrutiny committees. The researcher accepts the fact that this approach may have resulted in a somewhat narrower interpretation and conclusions. The researcher. nevertheless, maintains that wider comparison falls outside the scope of the research undertaking at present.