This is the Andean Integration System’s Community deliberative body that represents the inhabitants of the Andean Community. Its representatives are chosen by the National Congresses and in the near future will be elected through direct, universal vote, as stipulated in the Additional Protocol to the Constitutive Treaty, signed in April 1997. The representatives of Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru are now being elected directly by the people of those countries.

Its functions are to participate in the legislative process of putting forward to the bodies of the System draft provisions of common interest. It also promotes the harmonization of Member Country legislation and the growth of cooperative and coordinated relations with the Parliaments of the Andean countries and of third countries.

The Parliament was created on October 25, 1979. The adoption in April 1997 of the Protocol Modifying its Charter and of the Additional Protocol on Direct and Universal Elections of the representatives will make its consolidation as a deliberative organ possible.