Un milione di cittadini potranno chiedere una legge europea: un diritto di iniziativa ‘sui generis’

Journal title CITTADINANZA EUROPEA (LA)
Author/s Paolo Ponzano
Publishing Year 2011 Issue 2011/1 Language Italian
Pages 11 P. 115-125 File size 426 KB
DOI 10.3280/CEU2011-001007
DOI is like a bar code for intellectual property: to have more infomation click here

Below, you can see the article first page

If you want to buy this article in PDF format, you can do it, following the instructions to buy download credits

Article preview

FrancoAngeli is member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA), a not-for-profit association which run the CrossRef service enabling links to and from online scholarly content.

The article seeks to explain the special nature of the right of legislative initiative provided by the Lisbon Treaty for the European citizens, then dealing with the content of the implementing regulation that governs the collection of one million signatures needed to invite the European Commission to present a proposal for a European law. In particular the article analyzes the main differences between the draft text of regulation made by the European Commission and the one officially adopted on the 16th of February 2011. The author is of the opinion that the new instrument could become at European level as effective as similar existing instruments at national level, especially if, as seems likely, the European Commission will comply with the practice followed so far in regard to legislative requests received from Member States and other European institutions (Parliament and Council) or lobbies.

Paolo Ponzano, Un milione di cittadini potranno chiedere una legge europea: un diritto di iniziativa ‘sui generis’ in "CITTADINANZA EUROPEA (LA)" 1/2011, pp 115-125, DOI: 10.3280/CEU2011-001007