The Hungarian Parliament's general scrutiny system, which includes the subsidiarity check procedure, is selective and concentrates on some 20-30 EU legislative proposals per year taken from the EC Legislative and Work Programme. Primarily, the Committee on European Affairs (CEA) is in charge of carrying out subsidiarity checks.The 'filtering procedure' is carried out by the CEA and has no formal link to regional or local authorities' interests or priorities.[1]

The Standing Orders of the Országgyűlés do not formally include any regional authorities within the Early Warning System (EWS). Given that regional stakeholders do not participate in the EWS, the National Assembly neither submits EU draft legislative acts to them, nor does it inform them systematically of decisions taken concerning subsidiarity issues.[2]

[1]Report on 'Subsidiarity in the multilevel framework of the Lisbon Treaty', Committee of the Regions, drafted by EIPA, 2011. Not published.

[2]Ibid