DECISION-MAKING IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

Contents
	Decision-making
	Consultation
	Assent
	Codecision

Under the consultation procedure, the Council consults Parliament as well as the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) and the Committee of the Regions (CoR).

Parliament can:

• approve the Commission proposal,
• reject it,
• or ask for amendments.

If Parliament asks for amendments, the Commission will consider all the changes Parliament suggests. If it accepts any of these suggestions it will send the Council an amended proposal.

The Council examines the amended proposal and either adopts it or amends it further. In this procedure, as in all others, if the Council amends a Commission proposal it must do so unanimously.