Committee of the Regions, CoR
- (Photo: Committee of the Regions website)
At present, the CoR only has an advisory function.
The future
The EU Constitution proposes that the CoR can go to the EU Court and claim that proposed EU regulations are in breach of the principle that law and policy should be made at the most appropriate level (subsidiarity).
The CoR will have the following distribution of the, up to 344, members in an enlarged EU.
| Germany | 24 |
| United Kingdom | 24 |
| France | 24 |
| Italy | 24 |
| Spain | 21 |
| Poland | 21 |
| Romania | 15 |
| Netherlands | 12 |
| Greece | 12 |
| Czech Republic | 12 |
| Belgium | 12 |
| Hungary | 12 |
| Portugal | 12 |
| Sweden | 12 |
| Bulgaria | 12 |
| Austria | 12 |
| Slovakia | 9 |
| Denmark | 9 |
| Finland | 9 |
| Ireland | 9 |
| Lithuania | 9 |
| Latvia | 7 |
| Slovenia | 7 |
| Estonia | 7 |
| Cyprus | 6 |
| Luxemburg | 6 |
| Malta | 5 |
Links
http://www.cor.eu.int.