Adoption of EU Induced Legislation by National Parliaments: Comparison of the Czech Chamber of Deputies with Slovak National Council

Several scholar have recently explored the impact of EU legislation on national legal orders [eg Brouard, Costa and König (eds) 2012]. Unfortunately all studies covered only the "old" Member States, data on countries acceding in 2004 are missing. My research is based on a dataset that processes extensive information on all law proposals submitted to Czech and Slovak parliaments between 1998-2012. Therefore, the mentioned gap could be hopefully closed and examples of states in transformation with more fluid legal systems added. However, the main objective of the presented paper is to analyse differences between the purely domestic laws and those based on EU impulses. Have the legislatures adapted their formal procedures in order to easily adopt the "obligatory" implementing acts? Are there any differences in practice between both groups (eg duration of negotiations, level of support, lenght of proposals)? Are the same subjects involved within the parliaments and what is the impact on relations with other actors outside parliaments, namely the executive? The paper will use both qualitative and quantitative (descriptive statistics) methods. The selection of case studies was not incidental, due to their shared history, the Czech and Slovak legal orders have the same roots and similar are also parliamentary traditions. In light of this, the method of difference could be applied and potential variances better explained.