Cooperation procedure
The cooperation procedure (also co-operation process, from the English. Cooperation procedure ) was one of the legislative procedure in the legislation of the EC and has been the Treaty of Lisbon abolished.
Up until the Amsterdam Treaty there was a large number of different legislative processes and the legislative process was very confusing. The cooperation procedure (introduced by the Single European Act 1987 ) gave the European Parliament for the first time the opportunity to influence the legislative process at the second reading of the legislative proposals of the Commission and thus meant an expansion of competencies.
Since the Amsterdam Treaty , the cooperation procedure has only been used on certain issues relating to Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). On the other hand, the codecision procedure has gained in importance, putting the European Parliament on an equal footing with the Council as legislator in more and more policy areas.