Completeness of supporting documentation for draft laws submitted to the parliament

Parliament receives all supporting documents of the government-initiated laws that were prepared and considered at the time of government approval

Review of the rules and procedures of government and parliament and any other regulations to assess whether the final package of a draft law which the government submits to the parliament includes the same supporting documents as the final package which was submitted to government for final approval. It is checked whether the regulations require that the same list of documentation is officially submitted to the parliament, as supporting materials of the government-initiated draft laws. As a minimum, checks are carried out on the regulatory requirement to submit: 1) the explanatory memorandum/introduction; 2) the regulatory impact assessment report; 3) summary of the public consultation (this can be part of other documents); 4) EU law compliance statement/ table of concordance, if those are relevant and required by the national regulations.

All draft laws submitted to the parliament are accompanied with all the required supporting documents

The practice of the government submitting all the relevant supporting documents of government-initiated draft laws to the parliament is checked based on the review of the full list of all draft laws submitted by government to the parliament during the last full calendar year. National administrations are asked to confirm the list of all documents submitted to government and parliament during the last full calendar year. These lists of supporting documents submitted to government and parliament are compared and analysed. The documents sent to parliament include all supporting materials submitted to the government for approval, such as: 1) explanatory memorandums; 2) regulatory impact assessment reports; 3) summaries of the outcome of public consultations (this does not need to be a separate document and can be included in the impact assessment or explanatory memorandum); 4) statements of conformity with the EU acquis and the tables of concordance (if the draft aligns with EU law). Additionally, to confirm the practice, the actual packages of five draft laws prepared and approved by the government during the last full calendar year are identified and reviewed further to confirm that the relevant supporting documents were in fact submitted to the parliament after their approval. Checks are also carried out with the parliament administration to confirm the information. Points are allocated if there is no inconsistency found, either during the check of the full population based on the information obtained from the parliament, or after the review of the samples.