European Union: preparatory documents: Preparatory documents

‘Preparatory documents' means all documents corresponding to the various stages of the legislative or budgetary process. They include

• Commission legislative proposals
• Council common positions
• legislative and budgetary resolutions
• initiatives of the European Parliament
• opinions of the European Economic and Social Committee and of the Committee of the Regions, etc.

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1. European Parliament.