English-Dutch translations for legislative

• legislatief
  De hoogte van de sancties moet op nationaal, niet op legislatief EU-niveau worden bepaald. The level of penalties should be determined at national level and not at European legislative level.
  Want door de richtlijn uit 1991 zag hij zich ertoe genoodzaakt om een zaak op legislatief niveau te behandelen, hoewel deze eigenlijk in principe van financiële en economische aard is. Because of the 1991 directive he was forced to take a legislative approach to a subject that is after all basically financial and economic.
  Daarom verzoeken wij de Commissie gebruik te maken van haar legislatief initiatiefrecht en voor te stellen de overeenkomst tussen de Europese Unie en Rusland op te schorten. We therefore call on the Commission to use its legislative powers to propose suspension of the agreement between the European Union and Russia.

Definition of legislative

• Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking
• That branch of government which is responsible for making, or having the power to make, a law or laws

Examples

• a legislative act
• Although enormously influential in shaping the laws of the land, The House of Lords are not actually a legislative body
• The legislative framework provides much opportunity for correction and amendment of poorly thought out bills.

Related words

• antilegislative
• legislative power
• Legislative Counselor
• legislative motion
• legislative branch
• legislative body
• legislative process
• legislative period
• legislative authority