Activities of Søren Bo SØNDERGAARD related to 2009/0813(NLE)
Plenary speeches (1)
Revision of the Treaties – Transitional measures concerning the composition of the European Parliament - Decision not to convene a Convention for the revision of the Treaties with regard to transitional measures concerning the composition of the European Parliament (debate)
Amendments (2)
Amendment 6 #
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas Article 14(3) of the Treaty on European Union lays down that the members of the European Parliament shall be elected by direct universal suffrage in a free and secret ballot,
Amendment 16 #
Article 2
2. Regrets that the Council did not adopt the necessary measures in time to enable the additional MEPs to take up their seats as soon as the Lisbon Treaty entered into force, and considers it unacceptable that one of the solutions envisaged in the context of the amendment sought is not in keeping with Article 14(3) of the Treaty on European Union and the spirit of the 1976 Act, which was designed to ensure that MEPs are elected directly, rather than indirectly through an election within a national parliament;