The “Cosmopolitan” Legislative Regions of Europe Some comparative lessons from the participation of the REGLEG in Portugal

Abstract

The present paper is the result of the participation in the Conference on Multilevel Legislative Drafting and Legislative Impact Assessment, held in Lisbon on the 15th of June 2022. The participation of the legislative regions (REGLEG) in the multilevel legislative drafting of the EU was questioned in Portugal over the transposition of Directives by the Autonomous Region of the Azores, in a procedure that was adjudicated by the Portuguese Constitutional Courts. This was the pretext for this presentation, aimed at discussing the legislative role of the REGLEG in the EU, which necessarily happens within the broader context of an increasingly cosmopolitan global legal order in multilevel networks of government.