Parliament may request the Commission, pursuant to Article 192, second paragraph, of the EC Treaty, to submit to it any appropriate proposal for the adoption of a new act or the amendment of an existing act, by adopting a resolution on the basis of an own-initiative report from the committee responsible.
Saskaņā ar ES pamatlīgumiem Eiropas Parlaments var prasīt, lai Eiropas Komisija izstrādā likumdošanas priekšlikumu.