The Parliamentary scrutinising of European matters after accession to the European Union

The main aim of this article is to foreshadow the possible process of scrutinising European matters in the Czech Parliament after accession to the European Union. As the most important part of this process the authors discover the creation of proper internal parliamentary structures needed for effective parliamentary control over governmental action on European level. At the first part of this article, the authors recount the recent steps done in this field, i.e. establishing of the European Integration Committees in both chambers of the Parliament, and the so called European Amendment to the Czech Constitution that seem to be the basic preconditions for future development. The authors anticipate that the competences of the chambers will be to a great extent delegated to the committees. Pursuant to this fact, the authors describe, at the second part of the article, the structure and competences of the European committees in the EU Member States and they focus mainly on bicameral parliamentary systems that seems to be instructive for the Czech Republic. The second followed problem is the possibility of a committee to give an obligatory statement which could fix the action of particular minister in the Council. Finally, the authors analyse the models possible in the Czech political and constitutional reality.