5 Amendments of Andrew DUFF related to 2012/2309(INI)
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Undertakes to submit sufficiently far in advance of the beginning of the 2019-2024 parliamentary term a new durable and transparent proposal for a decision of the European Council, based on an arithmetical formula, with the aim of establishing a system which in future, before each election to the European Parliament, will allow, whenever necessary, a reallocation of the seats amongst the Member States in an objective manner, based on the principle of degressive proportionality as set forth in Article 1 of the decision, taking account of any increase in their number and demographic trends in their population as duly ascertained, and without excluding the possibility of reserving a number of seats to members elected on transnational lists;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Believes that the question of seat apportionment in the European Parliament should only be resolved in conjunction with a review of the voting system in the Council on the understanding that the governance of the European Union is a hybrid compromise between the international law principle of the equality of states and the democratic principle of 'one man one vote'; determines to make proposals to this end at the next Convention to be summoned on the basis of Article 48(3) of the Treaty on European Union;
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a Decision establishing the composition of the European Parliament
Article 1 – first indent
Article 1 – first indent
Amendment 53 #
Proposal for a Decision establishing the composition of the European Parliament
Article 3
Article 3
Pursuant to Article 1, the number of representatives in the European Parliament elected in each Member State is hereby set as follows, with effect from the beginning of the 2014-2019 parliamentary term: Belgium 21 Bulgaria 17 Czech Republic 21 Denmark 13 Germany 96 Estonia 6 Ireland 11 Greece 21 Spain 54 France 74 Croatia 11 Italy 73 Cyprus 6 Latvia 8 Lithuania 11 Luxembourg 6 Hungary 21 Malta 6 Netherlands 26 Austria 198 Poland 51 Portugal 21 Romania 32 Slovenia 8 Slovakia 13 Finland 13 Sweden 1920 United Kingdom 73
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a Decision establishing the composition of the European Parliament
Article 4
Article 4
This Decision shall be revised sufficiently far in advance of the beginning of the 2019- 2024 parliamentary term with the aim of establishing a system which in future will make it possible, before each fresh election to the European Parliament, to reallocate the seats between the Member States in an objectiv fair, durable mannerd transparent way, based on the principle of degressive proportionality set forth in Article 1, taking account of any increase in their number and demographic trends in their population as duly ascertained.