Parliamentary Involvement
The powers accrued by the EP over the years have made the EP more influential in EU decision-making, largely through the increased use of the co-decision procedure, in which the EP makes legislation together with the Council of Ministers and recognition of the importance of brain research and the allocation of appropriate funding lies in the hands of the member states and their parliamentarians. Therefore the EBC has been collaborating with the European to impress on policy makers the importance of brain research in tackling the major health and societal issues posed by brain disease.