Rapporteur (European Parliament)

In the European Parliament, the rapporteurs are the MEPs who are responsible for a specific legislative proposal within the framework of the legislation of the European Union . After the European Commission has submitted a legislative proposal, the responsible committee in the European Parliament appoints exactly one rapporteur . He has the task of taking the lead in dealing with the relevant Commission proposal and preparing the submission for the opinion of the entire committee, which in turn serves as a basis for decision-making for the plenary session of Parliament.

The rapporteur is always provided with so-called shadow rapporteurs . This is to prevent the rapporteur belonging to a certain political group in the European Parliament from drafting the committee's decision proposal too unilaterally. Each political group represented on the committee has the right to appoint a shadow rapporteur. These are usually just as involved in the draft law as the lead reporter.

Web links

• Matthias Dauner & Klaus-Dieter Sohn: Legislation in Trialogue - The End of Transparent Representative Democracy? (PDF) In: cepInput. cep (Center for European Politics), October 9, 2015, p. 7 , accessed on March 20, 2019 : “The negotiating delegations [of the informal trialogue] are smaller than in the formal trialogue and vary from trialogue to trialogue. The European Parliament delegation is formally composed of the chairman of the committee responsible as well as the rapporteur and the shadow rapporteurs of the political groups. " 
• Article 205: Committee coordinators and shadow rapporteurs. In: Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament. March 3, 2015, accessed March 20, 2019 . 
• EP rapporteur in dialogue. European Movement Germany , accessed on March 20, 2019 : "The rapporteur's task is to take the lead in dealing with the Commission proposal and to prepare the submission for the positioning of the committee."