legislative technique

Likewise, recasting should become, once and for all, the standard legislative technique.

A framework law is a "legislative technique used to address cross-sectoral issues."

The Democrats contend they have enough votes to defeat a cloture motion, the legislative technique to end a filibuster.

There are three prongs to this project: laying down clear rules on consultation, assessing the impact of decisions and improving legislative technique.

What reasons can there be for the sudden re-emergence of a legislative technique that had seemed to be thoroughly discredited?

In the light of these unsystematic legislative techniques there is no point in summarising the various statutes drawn to our attention.

Irrespective of the choice of legislative technique, the Community legislator may not go beyond the aim of the proposal.

Parliament must also give thought, within the context of simplification, to the improvement of its procedures and its internal legislative techniques.

But in carrying out our legislative function under the treaties we must respect the limits that are set for us and the principles of good legislative technique.

Returning to Saint Maron's, he wrote on such diverse topics as teaching, rhetoric, the sacraments, management of Church property, legislative techniques, and liturgy.

The pro-Bork campaign is using all the usual legislative techniques, from swamping legislators with constituent pressure to flattering their egos with personal visits by the nominee.

On the question of legislative technique, the Legalists stressed that the rules enacted by the ruler for punishment of offences should be clear, intelligible to the ordinary people, and properly communicated to them.

But Republicans said they hoped that Democrats would see Mr. Daschle's defeat as a cautionary lesson that would prevent them from trying to use legislative techniques to entangle Republican initiatives.

Firstly, I do not believe the Committee on Legal Affairs' current approach of presenting reports on an issue of legislative initiative with an annex which has not been sufficiently discussed to be the appropriate legislative technique.

Through institutional strengthening, generation of synergies in national registration institutions, and improvement of legislative techniques, PUICA seeks to ensure that the outcomes obtained by the intervention will be sustained over time and thus make progress permanent.

An institution's failure to comply with the interinstitutional agreement would actually make it impractical to use this legislative technique and would deprive the institutions of an important tool for achieving the 'better regulation' objective that has been set as part of the objective of increasing transparency for the benefit of the citizens.

I feel that expressions such as 'improve and simplify legislation', 'give practical substance to the concept of citizenship', 'improving legislative technique' and 'working faster and better' are liable to be meaningless and even to serve as fig leaves covering up the lack of democracy in the European Union's legislative and decision-making process.

Our request is made for reasons of 'legislative technique', a somewhat mysterious term meaning that, in our opinion, postponing the vote for a few weeks could help our institution to negotiate an outcome that is positive, or at least more positive than the situation that would arise if we were to vote on this draft tomorrow.