Guidelines and others
European Court of Human Rights - Case of Zielinski and Pradal and Gonzalez v. France (October 1999) (excerpts)
Statue of the Council of Europe (1949) (excerpts)
EU Interinstitutional Agreement on better law-making (2003)
EU Interinstitutional Agreement on common guidelines for the quality of drafting of Community legislation (1999)
EU Joint Practical Guide on drafting legislation within the Community institutions (2003)
Venice Comission Report on the Role of the Opposition in a democratic Parliament (2010)
CFI (Court of First Instance) Judgement on Martinez and De Gaulle v. European Parliament (October 2001) (excerpts)
CFI (Court of First Instance) Judgement on Le Pen v. European Parliament, (April 2003) (excerpts)
Sigma 43: Organising the Central State Administration: Policies & Instruments (2007)
PACE, Procedural guidelines on the rights and responsibilities of the opposition in a democratic parliament (2008)
Suplementary Human Dimension Meeting on Democratic Lawmaking, Final Report (2008)
OECD Draft Report on Regulatory Performance: Ex post evaluation of regulatory tools and institution (2004)
Sigma 14: Civil Service Legislation: Checklist on Secondary Legislation (and other regulatory instruments) (1997)
Evaluation of legislation - Analysis and prognosis of draft legislation as an instrument to improve the acceptance of norms (2001)
Evaluation of legislation - Obligation to evaluate the effects of legislation on the exercise of fundamental rights (2001)
Evaluation of legislation - Estimating the cost of legislation (2001)
Evaluation of legislation - Contribution to the quality of legislation (2001)
Joint Practical Guide of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission for persons involved in the drafting of legislation within the Community institutions (2000)
Mandelkern Report on Better Regulation (2001)
Interinstitutional Agreement of 28 November 2001 on a more structured use of the recasting technique for legal acts
Interinstitutional Agreement of 22 December 1998 on common guidelines for the quality of drafting of Community legislation
Interinstitutional Agreement on better law-making (2003)
Interinstitutional Agreement of 20 December 1994 Accelerated working method for official codification of legislative texts
A Guide to Parliamentary Practice (UNESCO and IPU) (2003)
Parliament and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century. A Guide to good practice (IPU) (2006)
Vienna Concluding Document (1989) (excerpts)
Document of the Moscow Meeting CSCE (1991) (excerpts)
Document of the Copenhagen Meeting of the CSCE (1990) (excerpts)
Sigma 39: The role of Ministers in the Policy System: Policy development, monitoring and evaluation (2007)
Sigma 42: Regulatory management capacities of member states of the European Union that joined the Union on 1 May 2004 (2004)
Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) Inventory - Note by the Secretariat (2004)
Regulatory Alternatives: Annex II to Regulatory Policies in OECD Countries: From Interventionism to Regulatory Governance (2002)
OECD Guiding Principles for Regulatory Quality and Performance (2005)
Background Document on Regulatory reform in OECD Countries (2006)