The Navarre Regional Parliament (Parlamento de Navarra) was established on 30 April 1979.
Competences (legislative and non-legislative), legal bases and policy areas where the regional parliament is active
Legislative: The Regional Parliament's legislative competences derive from the Spanish Constitution and from Organic Act 13/1982 of 10 August 1982 (Statute of Autonomy of the Foral Community of Navarre). It has exclusive competence inter alia in the following areas: local administration, roads and motorways, tourism, health, internal trade, regional police force and agriculture. For further information, see the link above.
Non-legislative:These competences include inter alia: political control over the Regional Government, appointment of the President of the Regional Government, appointment of a member of the Spanish Senate, election of the President of the Regional Court of Auditors and the Public Ombudsman. The legal bases can be found in the Spanish Constitution, the above-mentioned Organic Act 13/1982, and in other State organic acts.
List of committees/sub-committees or working groups in the regional parliament
The Regional Parliament includes Standing Committees inter alia on:
- Foral System;
- International Co-existence and Solidarity;
- Presidency, Justice and Interior;
- Economy, Finance, Industry and Employment;
- Culture, Tourism and Institutional Relations;
- Education;
- Health;
- Social Policies;
- Rural Development, the Environment and Local Administration;
- Development.
Moreover, there is a Group in charge of European Affairs. For further information, see here (ES).
Committees in charge of scrutinising subsidiarity
The Group on European Affairs.
Staff in charge of subsidiarity scrutiny
There is no staff specifically in charge of subsidiarity scrutiny.
Subsidiarity check
Nature (selective/systematic): Systematic.
Procedure: the Group on European Affairs carries out the subsidiarity check within a four-week period.
Cooperation/coordination at the regional level
A selection of EU draft legislation is transmitted by the Regional Government to the Parliament.
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 are informal contacts, on an ad-hoc basis. Moreover, the Regional Parliament participates in CALRE (Conference of European Regional Legislative Assemblies).
