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National parliaments have a specific role to play in European integration and participation in the EU decision-making processes. In addition to control powers towards the executive power, the last changes of the primary law (Lisbon Treaty) have provided them with new competencies in the form of more sophisticated procedures of democratic control, including the implementation of the subsidiarity test under the so-called yellow and orange card mechanism. National legislators have thus a specific type of powers to some extent beyond national constitutional law, in which they exercise individual and collective control over decision-making processes at the EU level.