SIXTH SUBSIDIARITY CONFERENCE
18 December 2013
Berlin
Germany
"Subsidiarity monitoring after Lisbon: experiences and perspectives"
The Subsidiarity Conference is the Committee of the Regions' key event on subsidiarity. Organised biennially, it seeks to strengthen the inter-institutional dynamic of subsidiarity scrutiny and allows genuine dialogue to take place between all parties involved in the subsidiarity monitoring process. The Subsidiarity Conference has become a key feature of the EU and national institutional agenda, just as the subsidiarity principle has become a key feature of the democratic framework of the EU.
Content:
1. Welcome addresses
2. Keynote speeches - The principle of subsidiarity as a joint challenge and opportunity for the European institutions
3. Keynote speeches
a) The judicial review of the principle of subsidiarity and the relevance of the Subsidiarity Early Warning System for the Court of Justice of the European Union
b) Subsidiarity monitoring in the context of the Early Warning System – expectations and reality
4. 1st Round Table - National parliaments' experiences of subsidiarity monitoring
5. 2nd Round Table - The involvement of regional assemblies in monitoring the principle of subsidiarity
6. Closing session - Perspectives of subsidiarity monitoring in a multi-level governance system in Europe
The 6th edition of the Subsidiarity Conference was held in the premises of the German Bundesrat in Berlin on 18 December 2013. It was an opportunity to assess the status and impact of the principle of subsidiarity on EU law-making in the post-Lisbon era. By bringing together prominent representatives from the European, national, regional and local levels, it provided a unique forum to evaluate subsidiarity monitoring from different perspectives
