Number of definitive legislative acts adopted by the Council, or by the Council and the European Parliament, from 1996 to 2005.

Discussion paper on legislative procedures, including de budgetary procedure, forwarded to the Members of the Convention by the Praesidium on 24 July 2002. The document was intended to serve as a basis for the debate in the plenary session of the Convention on 12 and 13 September 2002.

Diagram illustrating the consultation procedure before the Lisbon Treaty.

Diagram illustrating the conciliation procedure before the Lisbon Treaty (Joint Declaration by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission, of 4 March 1975).

Diagram illustrating the assent procedure before the Lisbon Treaty.

Diagram illustrating the cooperation procedure before the Lisbon Treaty (Article 252 of the EC Treaty).

Diagram illustrating the codecision procedure before the Lisbon Treaty (Article 251 of the EC Treaty).

Classification of legislative procedures with regard to the voting system at the Council and the European Parliament's involvement.

Joint Declaration of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission of 4 May 1999 on practical arrangements for the new co-decision procedure (Article 251 of the Treaty establishing the European Community).

Example of an agreement concluded between the Council and the European Parliament in the Conciliation Committee.

The Commission gives its opinion on the effectiveness of the codecision procedure.

Joint European Parliament-Council-Commission press release, following the seminar, organised by the three institutions in Brussels on 6 and 7 November 2000, evaluating the operation of the codecision procedure since the entry into force of the Treaty of Amsterdam.

Adopted by the Council on 4 December 2000 and forwarded to the Nice European Council, this report evaluates the new codecision procedure eighteen months after the entry into force of the Amsterdam Treaty and makes recommendations for its improvement.

Published in the second edition of the Council of the European Union Guide of September 2000, the Codecision Guide explains how this decision-making process works following the changes introduced by the Treaty of Amsterdam. The Council Guide is produced by the Council General Secretariat as an internal document, having no legal effect, aimed at helping the Presidency and Member State delegations.

Diagram illustrating the codecision procedure, including its various stages and deadlines, as set out in 2000 in the Codecision Guide of the Council of the European Union.

This table, published in 2000 in the Co-decision Guide of the Council of the European Union, shows, for the entire length of the co-decision procedure, the allocation of tasks within the General Secretariat of the Council, between the various Directorates-General (departments responsible) and the Co-decision Backbone.