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Article 36 [The Parliamentary Dimension of CFSP]

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The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy 6 shall regularly consult 6,7 the European Parliament on the main aspects and the basic choices of the common foreign and security policy and the common security and defence policy 10,11 and inform 12–15 it of how those policies evolve. He shall ensure that the views of the European Parliament are duly taken into consideration. 16 Special representatives 8 may be involved in briefing the European Parliament.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Regelsberger and Kugelmann, in Streinz (2012), Art. 36 EUV para 3.

  2. 2.

    Schmidt-Radefeldt (2009), p. 234.

  3. 3.

    Terhechte, in Schwarze (2009), Art. 21 EUV para 1; Cremer, in Calliess and Ruffert (2011), Art. 36 EUV para 1.

  4. 4.

    On the historical development cf. Cutler and von Lingen (2002), p. 6 et seqq.

  5. 5.

    Final Report of Working Group VII “External Action”, 16 December 2002, CONV 459/02, p. 8.

  6. 6.

    Rules of Procedure of EP, 7th parliamentary term—July 2009, available at http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getLastRules.do?language=EN&reference=ANN-09.

  7. 7.

    Cremer, in Calliess and Ruffert (2011), Art. 36 EUV para 2.

  8. 8.

    Burghardt et al., in van der Groeben and Schwarze (2003), Art. 21 EUV para 2; Terhechte, in Schwarze (2009), Art. 21 EUV para 1.

  9. 9.

    Cremer, in Calliess and Ruffert (2011), Art. 36 EUV para 3.

  10. 10.

    Burghardt et al., in van der Groeben and Schwarze (2003), Art. 21 EUV para 3.

  11. 11.

    Cremer, in Calliess and Ruffert (2011), Art. 36 EUV para 7.

  12. 12.

    Cf. European Parliament Resolution of 27 March 2003, No. 55, available at http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+REPORT+A5-2003-0111+0+DOC+WORD+V0//DE.

  13. 13.

    Regelsberger and Kugelmann, in Streinz (2012), Art. 36 EUV para 3.

  14. 14.

    Cf. European Parliament Draft Report on the Annual Report from the Council to the European Parliament on the main aspects and basic choices of the CFSP, 14 March 2008, EP Doc. 2007/2219 (INI), marginal 8, http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/pr/714/714131/714131en.pdf.

  15. 15.

    Cremer, in Calliess and Ruffert (2011), Art. 36 EUV para 4; Hailbronner and Wilms (2010), Art. 21 TEU para 5.

  16. 16.

    Thym (2005), p. 2 et seq.

  17. 17.

    Regulation (EC) No. 1049/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and the Commission documents, O.J. L 145/43 (2001).

  18. 18.

    For details, cf. Dietrich (2006), p. 430; Kaufmann-Bühler and Meyer-Landrut, in Grabitz et al. (2011), Art. 36 EUV para 9.

  19. 19.

    Cremer, in Calliess and Ruffert (2011), Art. 36 EUV para 9; Hailbronner and Wilms (2010), Art. 21 EUV, para 7.

  20. 20.

    Burghardt et al., in van der Groeben and Schwarze (2003), Art. 21 EUV para 4.

  21. 21.

    Cremer, in Calliess and Ruffert (2011), Art. 36 EUV, para 8; Report on the European Security Strategy and ESDP of 28 January 2009, available at http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+REPORT+A6-2009-0032+0+DOC+WORD+V0//EN.

  22. 22.

    Born (2008), p. 8.

  23. 23.

    Schmidt-Radefeldt (2005), p. 280 et seqq.

  24. 24.

    Hilf and Schorkopf (1999), p. 195 et seq.; Thym (2005), p. 11.

  25. 25.

    Cf. Interinstitutional Agreement between the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission on Budgetary Discipline and Improvement of the Budgetary Procedure of 6 May 1999, O.J. C 172/1 (1999); Interinstitutional Agreement between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and sound financial management of 14 June 2006, O.J. C 139/1 (2006). On this topic, see also Maurer et al. (2005), p. 175 et seqq.

  26. 26.

    Born (2008), p. 19 et seqq. According to the traditional concept of parliamentary control of foreign policy in Germany, however, the German Bundestag is a complementary control and decision-making body and the individual constitutional powers of the executive branch and the legislative branch are entwined with each other.

  27. 27.

    German Federal Constitutional Court, 2 BvR 2134, 2159/92 (Judgment of 12 October 1993) para 100 (BVerfGE 89, 155, 185 et seq.)—Maastricht (English translation in Oppenheimer 1994, pp. 527–575).

  28. 28.

    Cf. German Bundestag Resolution 14/7788 of 12 December 2001, available at http://dip21.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/14/077/1407788.pdf.

  29. 29.

    COSAC is made up of six representatives of the national Parliaments of the 27 MS respectively, and of six representatives of the EP. COSAC convenes every 6 months in the country holding the EU Presidency.

  30. 30.

    Mittag (2003), p. 156.

  31. 31.

    The Assembly of the WEU was established in application of the provisions of Article IX of the modified Brussels Treaty of 1954; cf. Schmidt-Radefeldt (2005), p. 246 et seqq.; Lotter (1997).

  32. 32.

    The NATO Parliamentary Assembly, which enjoys observer status in the Assembly of the WEU and maintains a wide range of contacts with the EP (e.g. mutual participation in committee meetings), should also be mentioned in this context. Unfortunately, there is currently no automatic connection between the delegation memberships in the Assembly of the WEU and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

  33. 33.

    Instead, national and supranational Parliaments can govern largely unchanged throughout a legislative period of 4–5 years, whereas interparliamentary assemblies are subject to a comparatively high fluctuation of members. Since the delegations are determined at the beginning of the respective legislative period of a national parliament, the composition of the Assembly of the WEU changes after practically every national parliamentary election in the more than 30 MS.

  34. 34.

    Cf. Dietrich (2006), p. 432.

  35. 35.

    European Parliament Resolution of 10 April 2002, para 26, http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+MOTION+B5-2002-0187+0+DOC+WORD+V0//EN.

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Blanke, HJ., Mangiameli, S. (2013). Article 36 [The Parliamentary Dimension of CFSP]. In: Blanke, HJ., Mangiameli, S. (eds) The Treaty on European Union (TEU). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31706-4_37

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