The European Parliament fully supports the proposition that the Oireachtas and national Parliaments throughout the Union should be involved in reviewing the Commission's annual legislative programme. This would serve as an early warning system. If one third of all Parliaments in the Union claims a Commission proposal offends subsidiarity and proportionality, that is, the issues of who does what and whether a certain decision is correct, then the Commission must pause. This warning system never existed before and it is a way of extending ownership, parliamentary engagement and accountability. We support it because now it amounts to not a competition of Parliaments, but a necessary expression of democratic accountability at each appropriate level.