Committees of Inquiry in National Parliaments - Comparative Survey
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16-03-2020
This survey, provided by the Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the AFCO Committee, looks into the legal and administrative framework in which parliamentary committees of inquiry operate in the EU Member States. It focuses, in particular, in the investigative powers these committees have at hand to assist national parliaments in exercising parliamentary control. It also examines the role of Member States’ parliamentary committees of inquiry in guiding the action of the government, enhancing transparency and eradicating contraventions and maladministration.
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- committee of inquiry
- comparative analysis
- comparative study
- documentation
- economic geography
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- EP Committee
- EU institutions and European civil service
- EU Member State
- EUROPEAN UNION
- GEOGRAPHY
- national parliament
- parliament
- parliamentary inquiry
- POLITICS
- PRODUCTION, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
- research and intellectual property
- research report