Cyprus

Cyprus is a unitary republic with a presidential system. The House of Representatives is the main legislative body. In Cyprus, the leading role to the implementation process takes the House of Representatives, that is the link between the work of Law Office of the Republic of Cyprus to draft the appropriate legislation (in respect of directives) and the President of the Republic, who give his approval to the draft legislation.

The affected authorities (especially Ministry, Government Department, independent public authority) of the Republic enforce the policy and are fully responsible to monitor the policy (by imposing administrative or penal penalties).

House of Representatives
The House of Representatives is the main legislative authority in Cyprus. Representatives are elected every 5 years.

=== Council of Ministers ===

The Relationship between actors
The House of Representatives, who has the power to designate an authority responsible for the implementation and monitoring of the relevant regulation. The Parliament, with specified laws, could and have to give this authority the appropriate power and jurisdiction to impose penalties (especially penal) for the monitoring and proper implementation of an EU regulation.

In the aspect of an EU directive, the Legal Office of the Republic has the obligation to work for drafting the legislative framework for the proper implementation of directive. After, the Council of Ministers, must give its approval, if there is a national regulation, implementing the relevant directive, or the President of the Republic must give their approval to the legislation, after the Parliament votes this legislation.

In all cases, the Parliament must approve the national regulation that incorporated the directive (which has been issued from the Council of Ministers) or has to vote the appropriate legislation (which has been checked by the Legal Office of the Republic) and then the President of the Republic has to approve this legislation.

Moreover, the Legal Office of the Republic comes first, either to check the national regulation, promoting the implementation of directive, or to draft the appropriate legislation to pass the directive.