Last year, Ukraine acquired the status of a candidate for accession to the European Union. Thus, our state faces the ambitious task of adopting a series of legislative acts to bring the national legal system closer to the EU acquis. Verkhovna Rada Resolution 2483-IX “On Some Measures to Fulfill Ukraine’s Obligations in the Field of European Integration” (dated July 29, 2022) introduced certain procedural specifics of consideration of European integration draft laws.
However, in order to build an effective and sustainable procedure for consideration of such draft laws based on a broad political consensus, it is necessary to study the legislation and experience of other states – candidates and potential candidates for EU membership.
In connection with the above, this paper contains a description of the experience of European states – those that are candidates (potential candidates) for EU membership as well as those that are already EU members (in the historical context, while they were on the way to accession to the Union; and/or analysis of the current legislation regulating consideration in parliament of initiatives related to acquis communautaire issues). In particular, the experience of the following states was analyzed: