The Classical Model of Legislation

Abstract

The formulation of legislation is comprised of two discrete yet interconnected activities. Firstly, the establishment of internal legislation dictates the content of the norm, and once this has been largely finalised, the external legislative process can commence. This is conventionally a written task, involving the preparation of the legislation text, a process referred to as legislative drafting. However, in practice, these two processes often occur in parallel. This is followed by the procedure leading to the adoption of the legislation. These two elements are constant in the external lawmaking process, as the text of the draft legislation must undergo continuous amendment following each consultation and decision–making meeting, with legislative drafting tools being utilised for this purpose. The objective of this study is to furnish a comprehensive overview of the external legislative process, with a particular emphasis on the pivotal stages through which a draft law evolves into a regulation or statute. It is important to note that the description of the legislative process discussed here, in accordance with current legal regulations, does not include the achievements of digitisation. Consequently, with the exception of the bill drafting stage, the processes examined could have functioned in a similar way even decades ago. The digitised system of legislation has been presented in my previous studies.