The procedure's introduction by the Single European Act marked the first step toward real power for the European Parliament.
In order to make this objective possible the SEA reformed the legislative process by introducing the Cooperation procedure and by extending Qualified Majority Voting to new areas.
Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique | Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation | Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf | Economic Cooperation Organization | Patent Cooperation Treaty | Federal Rules of Civil Procedure | Economic Cooperation Administration | Civil Procedure Acts Repeal Act 1879 | Shanghai Cooperation Organisation | Japan International Cooperation Agency | Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe | Criminal procedure | Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation | Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan | remote procedure call | North Atlantic Cooperation Council | Motion (parliamentary procedure) | Montreal procedure | Japan Bank for International Cooperation | Institute of Democracy and Cooperation | Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development | European Political Cooperation | civil procedure | Administrative Procedure Act | The Technical Cooperation Program | The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure | The Battle Hymn of Cooperation | Statute Law Revision and Civil Procedure Act 1883 | Remote procedure call | Procedure word |