Planning and co-ordination of legislative activities between government and parliament

Officials from parliament and government meet regularly to discuss legislative priorities and agendas

It is checked whether the government and parliament hold regular meetings to discuss the legislative priorities, plans and agendas. Checks are carried out to assess whether the representatives of government (a minister or a delegated senior government official) attend the meetings of the governing body/structure of parliament which discusses the parliamentary agenda and scheduling (at least monthly, when the parliament is in sittings). Regular meetings are defined as occurring at uniform intervals, based on the assessment of agendas from the last three such meetings. Checks on the minutes of the last three meetings of the relevant body of parliament are carried out to confirm the practice. Information is further checked and verified during interviews.

Legislative plan of government is submitted to the parliament at least once a year

The official list of all planned legislative proposals of government must be submitted to the parliament at least once a year (submitted or published). In case of revisions to the government legislative plan during the year, the revised plan must also be shared with the parliament. Interviews are carried out to check and verify the practice.

Alignment between planned and approved draft laws by the government (%)

Results are taken from the assessment in the Quality of policy planning and reporting indicator, Sub-indicator 3.1.3. criterion 3. The alignment rate (expressed as a percentage) is calculated by dividing the number of government-initiated draft laws originating from annual government planning documents (such as the GAWP or legislative plan) approved by the government during the last full calendar year by the total number of actual draft laws approved by the government in that period. If there were multiple governments formed within a calendar year, the draft laws submitted to the parliament by these governments are compared against the annual planning documents of these governments for the same period, but the overall comparison is given as an aggregate of the entire year. Points are allocated based on the percentage of laws originating from the annual government planning documents approved by the government (x): • x < 50% = 0 points. • 50% ≤ x < 80% = linear function. • x ≥ 80% = 4 points.