Every year the Dutch House of Representatives, through the EU Affairs Committee chooses a number of proposals which are then subjected to the subsidiarity and proportionality check.[1]

The Subsidiarity Check Committee will then be in charge of conducting a subsidiarity check and drafting a letter with the support of the relevant House of Representatives committee. This is then submitted to a plenary meeting of the Dutch House of Representatives. The House of Representatives will forward its opinion to the European Commission.[2] [3]

The Senate – the committee involved in the subsidiarity check – will have a meeting on the proposal, on which comments may be submitted. The Senate can decide to submit a letter to the European Commission.[4] .

If the two chambers agree, a joint letter to the European Commission may be sent.[5]

The VNG and the IPO are involved in an early stage regarding European decision-making involving a subsidiarity check with their presence in the Working Group for the Assessment of New Commission Proposals (BNC). They are consulted on the financial and administrative consequences of new European legislation. As such, they are a member of the various European governmental discussion forums which assess new commission proposals and European policies.[6] Furthermore, they are informally consulted by the House of Representatives regarding subsidiarity issues. The IPO is a member of the CoR's Subsidiarity Monitoring Network.

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