Competences (legislative and non-legislative), legal bases and policy areas where the regional parliament is active  

Legislative: The Regional Council, like those of the other Italian regions, exercises its legislative competences in accordance with the provisions of Article 117 of the Italian Constitution. More specifically, Article 117(2) specifies legislative matters that are exclusive to the state, such as immigration, defense, citizenship and social security; Article 117(3) lays down legislative matters that are concurrent between the state and the regions, such as scientific research, health protection, land-use planning and communications; whilst Article 117(4) specifies legislative matters that are, on a residual basis, exclusive to the regions and therefore concern all those matters not covered by the first two paragraphs of Article 117. Moreover, the Regional Council is responsible for approving the regional budget. For further information, please refer to the Italian Constitution (available here (EN)) and the Statute of the Region of Puglia, available here (IT).

Non-legislative: The Regional Council is inter alia responsible for controlling the Regional Government. For further information, see the Statute of the Region of Puglia (link above).

List of committees/sub-committees or working groups in the regional parliament
The Regional Council includes seven Standing Committees:

• First Committee: inter alia responsible for budget, finance and tax;
• Second Committee: inter alia responsible for general affairs, regional authorities and sport;
• Third Committee: inter alia responsible for healthcare and social services;
• Fourth Committee: inter alia responsible for industry, tourism, agriculture and fishing.
• Fifth Committee: inter alia responsible for ecology, environment, transport and housing;
• Sixth Committee: inter alia responsible for employment, education, culture and cooperation;
• Seventh Committee: inter alia responsible for the Statute, regulations, institutional reform and institutional relations.

For further information, see here (IT).

Committees in charge of scrutinising subsidiarity   
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Staff in charge of subsidiarity scrutiny  
N/A.

Subsidiarity check  
Nature (selective/systematic): N/A..
Procedure: N/A.
Cooperation/coordination at the regional level  
N/A.
Cooperation/coordination at the central level 
The mechanism for forwarding EU legislative proposals is laid down at federal level and has two separate channels for regional executives and assemblies.
Twice a week, the Regional Council receives EU laws, EU draft legislative acts and preparatory acts from the Prime Minister's office via the europ@ database system, through the Conference of Presidents of the Legislative Assemblies of the Regions and the Autonomous Provinces. This forwarding mechanism was established by an agreement signed on 20 July 2009 between the Central Government and the Conference of Presidents of the Legislative Assemblies of the Regions and the Autonomous Provinces, implementing the provisions of Law No. 11 of 4 February 2005. The europ@ system is part of the Department for Community Policies portal, which can be accessed by institutions in order to make comments and assessments on all EU acts and documents, including those not forwarded via the lists.
As for the relations between national and regional parliaments, there is no regulated procedure for cooperation yet. Nevertheless, a system has recently been introduced by the Senate's 14th Committee for forwarding lists of EU proposals requiring a subsidiarity check via the Conference of the Presidents of the Legislative Assemblies of the Regions and the Autonomous Provinces with a detailed schedule of the work of the parliamentary committees involved in the procedure.
The comments made by regional parliaments are sent to the committees in the Italian Parliament that are responsible for the subject-matter concerned by the European draft legislation and for European Affairs. These committees draft an opinion, which may refer to the position adopted by the regions.