Pierpaolo Settembri
The impact of enlargement on Council decision-making
The dataset contains information on all acts adopted by the Council (alone or with another institution, usually the EP) during four presidencies: the two held in 2003 by Greece and Italy, the one held in the second semester of 2005 by the United Kingdom and the one held in the first half of 2006 by Austria (to determine whether one act “belongs” to one of the four presidencies, the dataset takes into account the date of formal adoption by the Council, or that of the signature by EP and Council for acts under codecision). The dataset includes acts adopted on a proposal from the Commission or from a member state (in particular decisions adopted in the framework of the II and III pillars) as well as acts having as a legal basis a treaty article or a piece of secondary legislation. It contains detailed information on almost 1000 acts, gathered through combined reliance on two databases: Commission’s Prelex and Council’s monthly summaries of acts adopted (both its annexes I and III). Information provided includes the number of discussions held at the Council on each item, the duration of each legislative procedure, the length of each piece of legislation adopted and the voting behaviour of member states.
The dataset has been conceived by Pierpaolo Settembri and used, for the first time, for the article The surgery succeeded. Has the patient died? The impact of enlargement on the European Union, Jean Monnet Working Paper 04/07, New York, N.Y. 2007: NYU School of Law (accessible at: http://www.jeanmonnetprogram.org/papers/07/070401.html).
It has also been used for the following book chapters by Edward Best and Pierpaolo Settembri: 'Surviving Enlargement: How has the Council Managed?' and 'EU Legislative Output after Enlargement: Similar Number, Shifting Nature' in Edward Best, Thomas Christiansen and Pierpaolo Settembri (eds.) The Institutions of the Enlarged European Union: Continuity and Change. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2008).
The support of the Jean Monnet Center at the New York University and the European Institute of Public Administration (Maastricht) as well as the assistance of Sarada Das are kindly acknowledged
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