Sentences with phrase «non-legislative regulatory acts»

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Consequently, where Article III - 365 (4) of the Constitutional Treaty mentioned a possibility for natural and legal persons to institute proceedings against a «regulatory act», this clearly applied only to non-legislative acts.

This is also confirmed by the preparatory documents of the European Convention on Article III ‑ 270 (4) of the Draft Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, (23) the provision which subsequently reappeared in the Constitutional Treaty as Article III - 365 (4); according to those documents, the wording «acts of general application» was debated in the Convention, but ultimately rejected and replaced by the more restrictive expression «regulatory act», which was intended to express the distinction between legislative and non-legislative acts.