nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20191209-060505-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 191208s2019||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20191209-060505-0 doi eng 342 23 Pech, Laurent Author aut The European Parliament Sidelined On the Council's distorted reading of Article 7(1) TEU Pech, Laurent Verfassungsblog 2019-12-08 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier When the Council adopted the first set of procedural rules governing Article 7(1) TEU hearings in July 2019, it unilaterally decided to make the Commission the proxy for the Parliament. This post will show how the Council’s differential treatment of the Commission and the Parliament as activating bodies under Article 7(1) is not compatible with EU primary law and goes against in particular the principle of institutional balance. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Art. 7 TEU Council Legal Service European Parliament Kochenov, Dimitry Vladimirovich Author aut Platon, Sébastien Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-european-parliament-sidelined/ raw object