Draft act - Main contents

Draft acts are proposals from the European Commission for the adoption of an act that have not yet been adopted. Draft acts can be divided into three types:

Draft legislative acts

This category is limited to draft acts under the Regulatory Procedure with Scrutiny. i Although these draft legislative acts modify certain aspects of an existing regulation i, directive i or decision i, the alterations are not so deep that they may justify the application of the codecision procedure i.

Draft delegated acts

The procedure for delegated acts is one of the procedures used to establish secondary legislation. The European Commission may be granted the mandate to establish delegated acts, but only if primary legislation allows for it and only within the boundaries set by the primary legislation.

Draft implementing acts

Responsibility for implementing legally binding EU acts lies primarily with EU countries. However, some legally binding EU acts require uniform conditions for the implementation. This is secured by means of what is known in EU jargon as ‘comitology’ procedures, i.e. the Commission is assisted by committees consisting of EU countries’ representatives and chaired by a representative of the Commission.