1 Amendments of Sylvia-Yvonne KAUFMANN related to 2008/2234(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
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1. Welcomes the fact that the Treaty of Lisbon makes it possible for one million EU citizens from different Member States collectively to invite the Commission to submit legislative proposals, and believes that such a legal right will significantly raise awareness of EU citizenship among Europeans; calls on the Commission to prepare transparent and easily understandable procedures implementing the ‘citizenship initiative’, so that EU citizens are be able to effectively initiate legislation immediately after the Treaty of Lisbon enters into force; while it hopes that it will not be necessary, stresses that the CommissUnion should incorporate this right of initiative into its policirocedures regardless of the final status of the Treaty;