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Activities of Alain LAMASSOURE related to 2017/2054(INL)

Plenary speeches (1)

Composition of the European Parliament (debate) FR
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2017/2054(INL)

Amendments (6)

Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Recognises the legal uncertainty created by the triggering of Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union by the United Kingdom, the unknown date for finalisation of the Brexit negotiations and the impossibility of adjusting, without a change in the Treaty, the Council’s qualified majority voting system, which should be defined in connection with the allocation of seats in Parliament in order to better ensure the inter-institutional balance;deleted
2017/10/20
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines that, whilst the mathematical formulas display great potential for providing a permanent system for the distribution of seats in the future, the political and legal uncertainty as a result of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU ultimately make it politically unviable for Parliament to suggest a permanent system at this stage;
2017/10/20
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that until the United Kingdom withdraws from the Union, the most viable solution providing legal certainty to Member States would be to maintain the same distribution of seats in Parliament as the one applied in respect of the 2014 - 2019 parliamentary term;deleted
2017/10/20
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Proposes that a new distribution of seats in Parliament should immediately apply once there is legal certainty and the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the Union becomes legally effective; insists that the MEPs that will occupy the seats resulting from this new distribution shall all take up their seats in Parliament at the same time;deleted
2017/10/20
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex – Article 3 – paragraph 2
2. If the date on which the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the Union becomes legally effective falls after the European Parliament elections in 2019, each Member State concerned shall designate the persons who will fill the additional seats resulting from the difference between the number of seats allocated to that Member State in Article 3 of Decision 2013/312/EU and the number of seats allocated to it in the second subparagraph of paragraph 1 of this Article. Member States shall designate the persons who will fill those additional seats in accordance with their legislation, provided that the persons in question have been elected by direct universal suffrage and by reference to the results of the European Parliament elections in 2019.deleted
2017/10/20
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex – Article 3 – paragraph 3
3. The representatives in the European Parliament who fill the additional seats referred to in paragraph 2 shall take up their seats in Parliament at the same time.deleted
2017/10/20
Committee: AFCO