In order to promptly provide the necessary flexibility to the Member States and to ensure the continuity of rural development policy in the final years of the 2014-2020 programming period, it was considered to be appropriate to provide for an exception to the eight-week period referred to in Article 4 of Protocol No 1 on the role of national Parliaments in the European Union, annexed to the Treaty on European Union, to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community.
Chun an tsolúbthacht riachtanach a chur ar fáil go pras do na Ballstáit agus chun leanúnachas an bheartais forbartha tuaithe a áirithiú sna blianta deireanacha de chlárthréimhse 2014-2020, measadh gurbh iomchuí foráil a dhéanamh maidir le heisceacht ar an tréimhse 8 seachtaine dá dtagraítear in Airteagal 4 de Phrótacal Uimh. 1 maidir le ról na bparlaimintí náisiúnta san Aontas Eorpach, atá i gceangal leis an gConradh ar an Aontas Eorpach, leis an gConradh ar Fheidhmiú an Aontais Eorpaigh agus leis an gConradh ag bunú an Chomhphobail Eorpaigh do Fhuinneamh Adamhach.