In our institutional system, the Commission has the right of legislative initiative.

We do not share the view that the Commission should have the sole right of legislative initiative.

The parliament actually has no right of legislative initiative.

However, this should not lead us to confuse them with the holders of the right of legislative initiative in Europe.

The first step of the passing of a bill is the "right of legislative initiative".

One last consideration: the Commission has the right of legislative initiative in the European Union.

Member states also have the right of legislative initiative concerning the Common Foreign and Security Policy.

Majilis deputies and the government both have the right of legislative initiative, though the government proposes most legislation considered by the Parliament.

One of the problems is that we do not have the right of legislative initiative, since the founding fathers and their successors denied it to us.

First allow me to point out, Commissioner Byrne, that the European Parliament has no right of legislative initiative.

This review may result in the Commission making a legislative proposal in line with its right of legislative initiative in the treaties.

Both houses possessed the right of legislative initiative, save in respect to the constitution itself; amendments to the constitution could only be proposed by the monarch.

Soyuz, through a vote, was able to increase the powers of the Cabinet of Ministers, and gave the institution the right of legislative initiative.

Acts of the presidium, ukases and resolutions, possess the right of legislative initiative in the Verkhovna Rada.

Giving the right of legislative initiative to a Member State or to some Member States will always cause problems and confusion in implementing common codecision rules.

The right of legislative initiative belongs to the Members of Parliament, to the Speaker (excepting proposals to revise the Constitution) and to the Government.

At the present time, MEPs, uniquely elected by universal suffrage, have no true right of legislative initiative, a monopoly that is jealously guarded by the Commission.

The parallel process of appointing the future commissioners has certainly facilitated the introduction of a right of legislative initiative, which the European Parliament will enjoy from now on.

I want to keep the tried and tested Community method - with the Commission as guardian and judge of common European interests - from which the exclusive right of legislative initiative stems.

Indeed, we feel that the transfer of the majority of legislative aspects to the codecision process will only be coherent if we retain the framework of the Commission's right of legislative initiative.

Unfortunately, the same paragraph also contains the rather curious statement that it is important to safeguard the Commission's role as 'the only body with the right of legislative initiative', an idea to which I am strongly opposed.

However, under the Treaty of Maastricht enhanced by the Lisbon Treaty, the European Parliament has an indirect right of legislative initiative that allows it to ask the Commission to submit a proposal.

We will therefore ask you, in accordance with both the Treaty of Amsterdam and the interinstitutional agreement, to present us with a draft directive by virtue of the right of legislative initiative vested in this Parliament.

The European Parliament is already suffering from having no right of legislative initiative, even in areas where the Commission is failing to act - which is, in my opinion, an institutional anomaly that should be corrected in order to reduce the democratic deficit.

Reforms put to the meeting, proposing co-decision by the parliament, the right of legislative initiative, and the parliamentary election of the President of the Commission, were particularly strongly supported by West Germany but were opposed by France or Ireland [see also p. 37133].