The Parliament of Castile and León (Cortes de Castilla y León) was established in 1983.
Competences (legislative and non-legislative), legal bases and policy areas where the regional parliament is active
Legislative: Pursuant to Article 70 of the Statute of the Region of Castile and León, the Parliament has exclusive competence to legislate in matters including inter alia finance, railways, airports, social assistance, promotion of equality, agriculture, hunting and culture. Moreover, Article 71 of the Statute mentions domains where the Region implements national legislation. These domains include inter alia consumer protection, social security, mines and radio. Moreover, the Parliament is responsible for adopting the regional budget. For further information, see the Statute of the Region of Castile and León (see link above).
Non-legislative: Pursuant to Article 24 of the Statute, the Parliament is inter alia responsible for controlling the Regional Government and electing the President of the Regional Government.
List of committees/sub-committees or working groups in the regional parliament
The Parliament includes Permanent Standing Committees inter alia on:
- Agriculture and Livestock;
- Culture and Tourism;
- Economy and Employment;
- Education;
- Family and Equal Opportunities;
- Development and Environment;
- Health.
For further information, see
here (ES).
Committees in charge of scrutinising subsidiarity
N/A.
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
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
The Parliament participates in CALRE (Conference of European Regional Legislative Assemblies).