THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT’S COMMITTEES OF INQUIRY – THE USEFUL INSTRUMENT FOR CONTROLLING THE APPLICATION OF COMMUNITARIAN LAW

ŽIVKOVIĆ Ninoslav (Master pravnik, doktorand iz međunarodnopravne uže naučne oblasti (oblast međunarodnog javnog prava) na Pravnom fakultetu Univerziteta u Beogradu), ninoslavzivkovic7@gmail.com

According to national legislations, there is also the possibility to form a committee with the aim of conducting an inquiry of a specific issue in communitarian law. In this way, the traditional parliamentary role of oversight of the executive is realized. The European Parliament\'s committees of inquiry are a reflection of the oversight function and the enlarged legislative prerogatives of this body. Although the result of the work of the investigative bodies is the production of reports which are of a non-binding legal nature, the importance of these bodies is evident both at the institutional level (European Parliament-European Commission relationship) and in terms of encouraging legislative change in the European Union. The aim of the paper is to demystify a specific area to highlight the important role of the committees in detecting numerous adverse impacts under communitarian law, using historical and teleological interpretation, as well as conceptual analysis.

Keywords: committees of inquiry; Communitarian law; The European Parliament; The European Commission; The European Union