Regional Assembly of Murcia (Asamblea Regional de Murcia) established in June 1982.
Competences (legislative and non-legislative), legal bases and policy areas where the regional parliament is active
Legislative: The Parliament is competent for all areas listed in the region's Statute of Autonomy, i.e. those which do not come under the remit of the National Government and which are governed by the Spanish Constitution. These competences include inter alia land use, public works, agriculture, hydraulic installations and promotion of culture. For further information, see Title I of the Statute of Autonomy, available
here (ES).
Non-legislative: The Parliament controls, supports and guides the Regional Government, in accordance with Murcia's Statute of Autonomy (see link above).
List of committees/sub-committees or working groups in the regional parliament
Legislative Standing Committees include inter alia:
- Committee on General and Institutional Affairs and European Union;
- Committee on Economy, Finance and Budget;
- Committee on Planning Policy, Environment, Agriculture and Water;
- Committee on Industry, Labour, Commerce and Tourism;
- Committee on Health and Social Affairs;
- Committee on Education and Culture.
There are also Non-legislative Standing Committees and Special Committees. For further information, see here (ES).
Committees in charge of scrutinising subsidiarity
Committee on the control of the application of the principle of subsidiarity, composed of four regional Members of Parliament.
Staff in charge of subsidiarity scrutiny
There is no staff specifically in charge of subsidiarity monitoring.
Subsidiarity check
Nature (selective/systematic): There is currently no subsidiarity check in place.
Procedure: The National Parliament (Cortes Generales) sends all EU legislative proposals to the autonomous regional parliaments by e-mail via the Joint Committee for European Affairs.
Cooperation/coordination at the regional level
The Regional Assembly provides the Regional Government with all the information sent to it by the Joint Committee for European Affairs of the Congress of Deputies.
Cooperation/coordination at the central level
EU draft legislation is forwarded by the Spanish Parliament (Cortes Generales) to all Spanish regional parliaments. In turn, the latter may transfer resolutions on the infringement of the subsidiarity principle to the Spanish Parliament within four weeks. The legal basis is found in Act 8/1994 of 19 May 1994, as amended by Act 24/2009 of 22 December 2009, regulating the Joint Committee for European Affairs and bringing it in line with the Lisbon Treaty.
Cooperation/coordination at the cross-regional level
There is some cooperation through the Conference of Presidents of the Autonomous Parliaments of Spain (COPREPA), which provides a forum for the presidents of the regional assemblies to share experiences. In order to facilitate the subsidiarity monitoring by regional parliaments and the cross-regional cooperation in this field, the Parliaments of Aragon and Navarre have published a guide for drafting opinions in the context of the early warning system (GuÃa para la elaboración de los dictámenes autonómicos en el sistema de alerta temprana, available here (ES)). This guide was presented and discussed at the March 2011 meeting of COPREPA.
Cooperation/coordination at the EU level
There is no cooperation/coordination with regional parliaments in other Member States. The Regional Assembly has occasional contacts with EU institutions and participates in CALRE (Conference of European Regional Legislative Assemblies).
