The Sardinia Regional Legislative Assembly (Consiglio regionale della Sardegna) was established in 1948.
Competences (legislative and non-legislative), legal bases and policy areas where the regional parliament is active
Legislative: Sardinia is one of the five Italian regions having special status. As stated in the Regions Special Statute, the Legislative Assembly holds legislative power in areas such as agriculture, hunting, fishing, industry, trade and tourism.
As a result of the 2001 constitutional reform (Constitutional Act no 3/2001), which extended the areas in which the Italian regions hold concurrent legislative competence and which gave the regions greater legislative autonomy in other fields, the State holds (exclusive or concurrent) legislative powers only in expressly defined areas. The regions have legislative powers in all other areas (exclusive-residual power). The reform also applies to the special regions (regioni a statuto speciale), inasmuch as it extends their autonomy until the adjustment of the special statutes (which has not yet taken place).
For further information, see the Regions Special Statute (link above).
Non-legislative: The Legislative Assembly is inter alia responsible for controlling the Regional Government. For further information, see the Special Statute of the Region of Sardinia (see link above).
List of committees/sub-committees or working groups in the regional parliament
The Legislative Assembly includes eight Standing Committees:
- First Committee: inter alia responsible for autonomy and local authorities;
- Second Committee: inter alia responsible for EU affairs and international cooperation;
- Third Committee: inter alia responsible for economic and social planning;
- Fourth Committee: inter alia responsible for space planning, roads and transport;
- Fifth Committee: inter alia responsible for agriculture, hunting and fishing;
- Sixth Committee: inter alia responsible for industry, mines, labour and employment;
- Seventh Committee: inter alia responsible for health and social assistance;
- Eighth Committee: inter alia responsible for education and culture.
For further information, see here (IT).
Committees in charge of scrutinising subsidiarity
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Staff in charge of subsidiarity scrutiny
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Subsidiarity check
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Procedure: N/A.
Cooperation/coordination at the regional level
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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 Legislative Assembly 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 Senates 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.
Cooperation/coordination at the cross-regional level
The Legislative Assembly cooperates with other regional parliaments via the Conference of Presidents of the Legislative Assemblies of the Regions and Autonomous Provinces, a body that promotes the institutional role of the assemblies of the regions and autonomous provinces, and acts as a hub for coordination and exchange of experiences regarding the legislative assemblies' areas of interest. The cooperation exists both on a technical level by participating in the working group on European affairs and on a political level through the participation of one Member of Parliament per regional parliament in the coordinating Committee of Chairs of European Affairs Committees. For further information, see here (IT).
Cooperation/coordination at the EU level
The Legislative Assembly participates in CALRE (Conference of European Regional Legislative Assemblies).