Comparative legal analysis of law-making procedures in the EU and the EAEU

The article examines the problems of lawmaking within the framework of international integration associations using the example of the European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union. The specifics of lawmaking procedures in the EU and the EAEU are analyzed. The purpose of the study is a comparative legal analysis of the lawmaking process in the EU and the EAEU, identifying specific features of the relevant procedures, as well as formulating an approach to their classification. As a result of the study, it is stated that it is possible to distinguish two types of lawmaking procedures in the EU and the EAEU: institutional and contractual, depending on the legal nature of the final act adopted within their framework. Specific characteristics of the lawmaking process in the EU are noted, which is characterized by the principle of coordination of the activities of key lawmaking institutions, in contrast to the EAEU, where the system of governing and decision-making bodies is built on a hierarchical principle. Based on the results of the analysis, proposals were formulated to improve the law of the EAEU in terms of law-making procedures, and the entire set of rules governing the adoption of regulatory legal acts within the framework of the integration associations under consideration was proposed to be allocated to a separate inter-branch institute in the law of the EU and the EAEU.