Subsidiarity: Mechanisms for monitoring compliance
The principle of subsidiarity requires decisions to be taken at the lowest practical level of government without, however, jeopardising mutually beneficial cooperation at the supranational level. Recent decades have seen efforts to strengthen the subsidiarity principle in EU law, including the introduction of the well-known early warning mechanism (EWM) for national parliaments. At the same time, the principle of subsidiarity remains a contested notion. This has important implications for the regulatory, political and judicial bodies monitoring compliance with the principle. In this context, commentators have called for a better (and shared) understanding of the principle and have formulated a number of suggestions as to how to monitor compliance with the principle more effectively.
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- application of EU law
- case law (EU)
- competence of the institution
- EU institution
- EU institutions and European civil service
- EUROPEAN UNION
- European Union law
- national parliament
- operation of the Institutions
- parliament
- POLITICS
- politics and public safety
- principle of proportionality
- principle of subsidiarity
- regional parliament