Changes in the EU Legislative Procedures According to the Lisbon Treaty

The Rome Treaties state tasks, purposes and activities of the European Community (art. 2 and 3 ECT) that should be achieved by its institutions – European Parliament, Council of the EU, European Commission, Court of Justice, Court of Auditors (art. 7 ECT) and newly also European Council and European Central Bank. For those purposes, the EC Treaty confers powers upon them to decide and to legislate. Legislative power is then supervised by independent supranational Court of Justice.
The EC method of decision-making is original combination of technocratic proposals by the Commission, cooperating with experts from all Member States, of legislative acts and political decisions by the Council, representing governments of the Member States, usually in co-action with the European Parliament, representing the EU citizens.
This article analyses the EU legislative procedures as enacted in the Treaty Establishing the European Community (first chapter) and compare them with new regulation in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union as amended by the Lisbon Treaty (second chapter). The Lisbon Treaty has entered into force on 1 December 2009.