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

Legislative: These competences are spelled out in Articles 110 to 173 of the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia and include inter alia the following: agriculture, livestock farming and forestry; water and hydraulic works; associations and foundations; hunting, fishing, maritime activities and organisation of the fishing sector. The Statute of Autonomy is available here (EN).

Non-legislative: These competences are similarly spelled out in the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia (see link above).

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

• Committee on Institutional Affairs;
• Committee on Economic Affairs, Finance and Budget;
• Committee on Enterprise and Employment;
• Committee on Home Affairs;
• Committee on Justice;
• Committee on Agriculture, Fisheries, Food and the Environment;
• Committee on Education and Universities;
• Committee on Territory and Sustainability;
• Committee on Welfare, Families and Immigration;
• Committee on Culture and Language;
• Committee on Health;
• Committee on Petitions;
• Committee on Secret and Restricted Matters;
• Committee on the Sindic de Greuges [Catalan Ombudsman];
• Committee on the Sindicatura de Cuentas [Catalan audit office];
• Committee on Control of the Activities of the Catalan Audiovisual Media Corporation;
• Committee on Equality;
• Committee on Youth Policies;
• Committee on External Action and the European Union;
• Committee on Cooperation and Solidarity;
• Committee on Childhood.

For further information on these committees, see here (EN).

Committees in charge of scrutinising subsidiarity   
There is no specific committee in charge of subsidiarity. The Parliament assigns responsibility to the committee that is competent in the area concerned by the EU draft legislation.

Staff in charge of subsidiarity scrutiny  
At staff level, responsibility for subsidiarity monitoring rests with the Office of Comparative Law and Inter-Parliamentary Relations (without prejudice to the early warning system procedures described below). The office is composed of a director, two officials and a secretary. .

Subsidiarity check  
Nature (selective/systematic): The Catalan Regional Parliament has not carried out any systematic or selective checks so far.
Procedure: In Spain, the Parliament (Cortes Generales), via the Joint Committee for European Affairs, sends all EU legislative proposals to the autonomous regional parliaments by e-mail. The procedure employed by the Regional Parliament is as follows: the Parliament's Bureau, or the President, communicates the legislative proposal to the committee competent in the relevant field, forwards it to the parliamentary groups and to the Regional Government, and orders its publication in the Parliament's Official Bulletin. If the parliamentary groups submit any observations regarding (non)-compliance with the subsidiarity principle, the committee will meet and may, following a debate, adopt a resolution. Within four weeks, the resolution will subsequently be sent to the Joint Committee of the Cortes Generales, to be forwarded (where relevant) to the European Commission. To date, the Executive has not forwarded any draft legislation to the Parliament for analysis on the grounds that it might violate the principle of subsidiarity.
Cooperation/coordination at the regional level  
EU draft legislation is forwarded by the Parliament's Bureau or the President to the Regional Executive. In addition, in the context of the Committee of the Regions' Subsidiarity Monitoring Network - of which the Regional Parliament is a member -, the procedure regarding specific consultations is as follows: when a rapporteur issues a questionnaire, it is forwarded to the Executive who will consult its experts in each of the areas relevant to the consultation. When the Executive's experts have answered the questionnaire, it is sent to the Catalan Regional Parliament, which in turn sends it on to the Committee of the Regions via the presidency.
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.