Conciliation Committee

Under the co-decision procedure a conciliation committee is set up when the Council cannot accept proposal amendments from the EU Parliament.

The committee is composed of 25 representatives from the Member States and 25 from the EU Parliament.

Most meaningful negotiations take place in a so-called trialoq meeting between the EU Council, the EU Commission and the EU Parliament.

Notes

• Conciliation is also used in the budget procedure when a delegation from the EU Parliament meets with a delegation from the Council to negotiate a compromise.

• The EU Constitution working group on simplification feared that in an enlarged EU there may be too many representatives on conciliation committees and so proposed a lower number of representatives. This proposal was criticised because it would mean that many nation states would not be represented when laws are finally decided behind closed doors in a conciliation committee.

Links

http://www.europarl.eu.int/code/default_en.htm