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The subject of the article is the analysis of the legal regulations of the governmental legislative councils in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic and the comparison of these institutions with the Legislative Council of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland. Three governmental legislative councils – for the federal government and the governments of both constituent parts of the federation – were established in Czechoslovakia in 1969 during moderate reforms of the political system which were carried out on the eve of the so-called normalization and which gave the state a federal character. Currently, existing governmental legislative councils in the Czech Republic and in the Slovak Republic were a continuation of those advisory bodies. A characteristic feature of these bodies is that their chairman is a member of the government. According to the author of the article, the mechanisms of strengthening the position of governmental legislative councils in the Czech and Slovak regulations, as well as the organization of the auxiliary apparatus of these councils should be considered particularly interesting.