1 Amendments of Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ related to 2014/2218(INI)
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas the criteria established for the admissibility of petitions, pursuant to the Treaty and Parliament’s own Rules of Procedure, state that petitions shall satisfy the formal conditions governing admissibility (Rule 215 of the Rules of Procedure), namely that a petition must concern a matter which comes within the European Union’s fields of activity and directly affect the petitioner, who must be a citizen of the European Union or have a residence there; whereas as a result of this a proportion of petitions received are declared inadmissible because they do not comply with these official criteria (list 3); whereas the members of the Committee introduced a new procedure in December 2014 to meet these formal requirements;