La pubblicità dei lavori delle commissioni parlamentari

di Massimo Rubechi

SOMMARIO: 1. Le ragioni di un interrogativo. - 2. La pubblicità dei lavori nella Costituzione e nei regolamenti parlamentari: caratteristiche e strumenti. - 3. Una rassegna delle proposte di modifica. - 4. Conflitto vs consenso: le possibili ipotesi di bilanciamento.

The article focuses on public awareness of the legislative activity of parliamentary committees. The recent requests aiming to increase the transparency of parliamentary assemblies, in fact, tries to extend higher standards of transparency to all the internal procedures. But the specificity of permanent commissions’ role on legislative processes imposes carrying out some more reflections on the possible impact of this innovation. An analysis on the constitutional principle related to transparency is presented in this essay, and the way in which the internal rules of the chambers translates them into committments related to parliamentary committees is specified. In this framework the recent reform proposals are discussed and inspected. The article tries to balance the request of increased transparency with the efficacy and quality of legislative procedure, in order to satisfy the requests while avoiding the risk of undermining the permanent committees’ ability to build parliamentary consensus.