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

Legislative: Legislative competences include the delimitation of municipal territory; woodland and forestry resources and services, livestock tracks and pastures; agriculture and livestock farming. Legal bases: Articles 10 and 11 of the Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country (see link above).

Non-legislative: The Parliament controls the action of the Basque Government. Article 25 of the Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country provides the legal basis.

List of committees/sub-committees or working groups in the regional parliament
Parliamentary Committees include inter alia the following:

• Committee on European Affairs and External Action;
• Committee on EITB (Basque Radio and Television) Supervision;
• Committee on Culture and Youth;
• Committee on Human Rights and Citizens' Requests;
• Committee on Education;
• Committee on Industry, Innovation, Trade and Tourism;
• Committee on Culture and Industry Departments Research;
• Committee on Health Research;
• Committee on Environment, Territorial Planning, Agriculture and Fisheries;
• Committee on Social Policies, Work and Equality;
• Committee on Health and Consumer Affairs;
• Committee on Housing, Public Works and Transport.

For further information, see here (ES).

Committees in charge of scrutinising subsidiarity   
There is no committee specifically in charge of scrutinising subsidiarity.

Staff in charge of subsidiarity scrutiny  
There is no staff specifically in charge of scrutinising subsidiarity.

Subsidiarity check  
Nature (selective/systematic): Systematic.
Procedure: A subsidiarity check is carried out on all European legislative proposals sent by the national parliament within four weeks. There is no single body responsible for the check. EU draft legislation is forwarded to the appropriate committee depending on the subject-matter of the proposal.
Cooperation/coordination at the regional level  
There are no cooperation agreements at this level, but cooperation takes place on a de facto basis. The government carries out a subsidiarity check for each proposal received by 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.