Basic Documents

This page contains the basic documents of COSAC, such as the COSAC Rules of Procedure and the Protocol on National Parliaments.

• Rules of Procedure of the Conference of Community and European Affairs Committees of Parliaments of the European Union
  As published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 4 November 2004
  
• Copenhagen parliamentary guidelines
  Guidelines for relations between governments and Parliaments on Community issues
  
• Protocol on the role of the national parliaments in the European Union
  As adopted by the Treaty of Amsterdam.
  
• Protocol on the role of National Parliaments in the European Union
  As�annexed to the Constitutional Treaty signed by the Heads of State or Government on 29 October 2004.
  
• Protocol on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality
  As annexed to the Constitutional Treaty signed by Heads of State or Government on 29 October 2004.
  
• Guidelines for Interparliamentary cooperation in the EU
  Agreed by the Speakers of national parliaments of EU-25 and the European Parliament in the Hague on 3 July 2004. (PDF-file)