Recently, the urgent attention of representatives of legal doctrine and legal practice has been drawn to the processes of improving lawmaking in the state. This, in turn, necessitates focusing on optimizing the activities of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, which produces a proposal to consider this process not only interrelated with the effectiveness of national legislation, but also using European experience. It should be noted that issues related to the optimization of parliamentary activities are not new in the context of discussions in professional scientific circles. At the same time, the dynamics of the activities of these discussions from time to time increases in relation to the consequences of periodic coverage of the effectiveness of the legislative work of the parliament of the relevant convocation. During the years of Independence in Ukraine, the need to increase the institutional capacity of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has been repeatedly emphasized.

 The aim of the article is to analyze doctrinal research related to the “unloading” of parliament and “filtering” non-functioning bills in the context of the latest constitutional modernization of the country: in particular, increasing the role of Verkhovna Rada committees in ensuring legislative efficiency.

Special attention is paid to the standardization of the legislative process (classical and modern approaches); procedures related to “second reading” (regular format and special format); procedures for registering bills in European parliaments (formal and informal); elaboration of alternative bills (European practice).

A separate vector of consideration in the article is devoted to the recommendations of international organizations.

The author concludes that the optimization of legislative activity of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine today is associated with increasing the role of committees of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in the context of ensuring the effectiveness of the legislative process, increasing the efficiency of the institutional capacity of parliamentary structures.

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1. Pravovi zasady zabezpechennia efektyvnykh komunikatyvnykh praktyk v suchasnomu informatsiinomu suspilstvi: realii ta perspektyvy: naukovo-analitychna dopovid (Shemshuchenko Yu, Skrypniuk O, Onishchenko N, Parkhomenko N, Bohinich O, Suniehin S, Instytut derzhavy i prava imeni V. M. Koretskoho NAN Ukrainy 2021) (in Ukrainian).