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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Legislative Sessions

Styliani (Stella) Christoforidou

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 04 November 2024

Subject(s):
Executive power — Legislative independence — Legislative power — Parliamentary systems — Presidential systems

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1 The legislative session is the period of time during which the Parliament conducts its legislative work (legislative bodies). The Parliament meets in sessions yearly at least once, each session lasting a few months. Parliamentary sessions are regular but can also be extraordinary. The legislative process, which is subject to procedural judicial review, takes place during a legislative session. The most significant issues about the legislative session are its opening and ending. Both the opening and ending of a legislative session could either belong to the...
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