Bulletin n. 1/2016 | ||
June 2016 | ||
Giacomo Rugge |
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Il ruolo dei triloghi nel processo legislativo dell'UE | ||
in Diritto dell'Unione europea , No. 4 , 2015 , 809-838 | ||
Over the last fifteen years, the EU institutions have been increasingly relying on trilogue negotiations in order to streamline the law-making process and to make it more effective. Trilogue negotiations are informal meetings held behind close doors by small groups of representatives of Parliament, Council and Commission, during which the three institutions discuss and define features and contents of legislative initiatives. According to some authors, though, the informality and confidentiality of trilogue negotiations pose a major challenge to the principle of transparency as provided for by the Treaties. With this in mind, the purpose of this article is to carry out a legal analysis of trilogue negotiations, paying particular attention to the rule of informality and the tension between transparency and effectiveness within the European legislative process. | ||