Talk:Directive (European Union)
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The Council of the European Union usually doesn't produce legislation on it's own. The legislative branch of the EU is made up of the European Commission, the Council and the European Parliament. http://europa.eu/abc-en.htm Hdk 09:41 27 Jul 2003 (UTC)
[edit] Orders from Brussels
The problem of the definition of orders from Brussels still has to be clarified: although what is stated now is theoretically correct (both the parliament and the council have to approve), the directives are produced on the initiative of the Commission (which has the sole right to initiative), and voting of them by the council is often a routine matter or is 'forced' by the commission (such as with the infamous software patent directive which was submitted to approval by agricultural ministers!) LHOON 12:47 06 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- That is your PoV: Wiki must reflect the legal facts.
- But if you read the European Commission article, you will see that the Commission drafts the proposal largely on the request on member states. In this, it operates not dramaticallly differently from any of the national Civil Services. Again, since they only draft the text, Ministers and the Parliament negotiate firmly in both the common and in their national interests and the later drafts on controversial matters are substantially changed. So the fixation with the production of the first draft is a eurosceptic totem that doesn't really stand up to critical examination. --Red King 17:40, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Structure of Codes
As you'll probably know, all the directives have codes in the same format: e.g. 98/71/EC. My question is, does the EC in the codes refer to European Communities? The only I can think of is European Commission, but as it used to be xx/xx/EEC, I would assume it now stands for European Communities. Yeah? - Рэдхот 11:55, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
- You're right it does refer to the European Communities which still exist under the umbrella of the European Union. Caveat lector 12:14, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
