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This briefing paper provides an overview of the role and mandate of the Eurogroup and the role and accountability of its President, including the procedures for his/her appointment. This paper includes the following sections: 1) The role of the Permanent President of the Eurogroup; 2) The President of Eurogroup and the European Parliament; 3) The role and mandate of the Eurogroup; and 4) Eurogroup transparency. The paper will be regularly updated.

This paper provides and overview of the role of the European Parliament in scrutinising the application and implementation of the EU economic governance framework, notably by holding Economic Dialogues with the EU executive institutions and, when applicable, with Member States’ governments. We also assess the envisaged role for EU parliaments in the European Commission’s economic governance reform proposals, notably as regards transparency and parliamentary involvement at EU and national level. This ...

The impact assessment uses internal and external expertise and evidence collected from targeted consultations. The problem definition is framed, the IA provides information on the extent of the regulation and the scope of conflicts of interest, the relationship between ESG rating providers and rated companies. The IA considers three options for one specific objective and two options for the other specific objective. Assessment and comparison of the options is made in terms of effectiveness, efficiency ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a powerful tool thanks to technological advances, access to large amounts of data, machine learning and increased computing power. The release of ChatGPT at the end of 2022 was a new breakthrough in AI. It demonstrated the vast range of possibilities involved in adapting general-purpose AI to a wide array of tasks and in getting generative AI to generate synthetic content based on prompts entered by the user. In a just a few years' time, a very large share ...

La présente étude, commandée par le département thématique des droits des citoyens et des affaires constitutionnelles à la demande de la commission AFCO, examine la nature particulière de l’article 122 du traité FUE en tant que base juridique non législative en application de laquelle le Parlement européen n’est pas associé au processus décisionnel. La conclusion de l’étude est que le recours récent à l’article 122 du traité FUE est juridiquement défendable, mais que le Conseil ne porte pas une attention ...

Le secteur des crypto-actifs, bien qu’il soit encore relativement nouveau, a déjà changé le monde des paiements et des investissements pour toujours. L’évolution rapide et la volatilité du secteur ainsi que son importance croissante sur le marché représentent toutefois des défis pour les autorités fiscales, qui ne sont pas toujours en mesure de suivre les gains réalisés grâce à la négociation de crypto-actifs. La proposition de la Commission visant à réviser la directive relative à la coopération ...

The European Parliament set up its Transparency Register in 1995, in response to criticism regarding the transparency and accountability of the EU's decision-making process in the context of widespread lobbying of the EU institutions. The Commission followed suit in 2008. The two institutions merged their instruments in a joint European Transparency Register in 2011 on the basis of an interinstitutional agreement (IIA); the Council remained only an observer at that time. This original Transparency ...

Au cours de la période de session de juillet 2023, les députés voteront sur le rapport d’initiative de la commission spéciale ING2, qui formule des recommandations visant à renforcer les règles du Parlement en matière de transparence, d’intégrité, de responsabilité et de lutte contre la corruption, afin de mieux le protéger contre les ingérences étrangères.

This analysis explores examples of best practices from selected parliaments in the areas of transparency, integrity, accountability and anti-corruption, and reflects on the effectiveness of the analysed approaches and their possible applicability for the European Parliament (EP). Findings confirm the need for the establishment of an independent European Union (EU) ethics body, granted investigative and enforcement powers with full transparency of enquiries, decisions and/or proposals as a pre-condition ...

This study has been commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies, Directorate-General for Internal Policies at the request of the ENVI Committee. It analyses EFSA’s independence and transparency policies and examines how legislative provisions have been implemented by EFSA and whether rules and practices adopted by EFSA can be improved.