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Council and then the Parliament adopts it. Thus, it is evident that all
three institutions play an important role in the EU decision-making
process.
Apart from the Ordinary Legislative Procedure, the EU may adopt
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decisions through the Special Legislative Procedure. Such a procedure
is applied when the Council is entitled to approve a European
Commission initiative alone and only a consultative role is attributed
to the Parliament, meaning that the Parliament is unable to change
the decision of the Council. The Special Legislative Procedure is used
only in a few cases, inter alia, when the Union decides to accept new
member states.
To sum up, three EU institutions - the European Commission, the
European Parliament and the Council of the EU are directly involved in
adopting EU decisions. Other EU institutions, despite their important
role in the functioning of the Union, are not a direct part of EU decision-
making. EU decisions are expressed through legal documents such as
“regulations,” “directives” and “decisions.”

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