Activites

• 2002/10/21 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Decision 2002/772
  • OJ L 283 21.10.2002, p. 0001
  • Corrigendum to final act 32002D0772R(01)
  • OJ L 126 21.05.2009, p. 0023
• #2439
• 2002/06/25 Council Meeting
• 2002/06/25 End of procedure in Parliament
• 2002/06/25 Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
• 2002/06/12 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T5-0301/2002 summary

    By adopting the report by Mr José Maria GIL-ROBLES GIL-DELGADO (EPP-ED, E), with a majority of 399 votes for and 111 against, the Parliament approved the draft Council decision amending the act concerning the election of Members of the European Parliament. The changes proposed in the Council draft decision take up Parliament's own main demands, such as the principle of proportional representation, with Member States authorised to use a preferential list system; the right for Member States to establish regional constituencies (provided this does not affect the essentially proportional nature of the system), the incompatibility of being a Member of the European Parliament and a member of a national parliament (with the exemptions for the UK and Ireland until the 2009 elections); the right for each State to set a ceiling for the expenses of candidates for election campaigns.�

• 2002/06/11 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• 2002/05/29 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2002/05/28 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A5-0212/2002
• #2427
• 2002/05/23 Council Meeting
• 2002/05/21 Legislative proposal published
  • 08964/2002 summary

    PURPOSE : to present a draft Council Decision amending the Act concerning the election of the representatives of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage, annexed to Council Decision 76/787/ECSC, EEC, Euratom of 20 September 1976. CONTENT : the objective of the proposed amendments is to enable members to be elected by direct universal suffrage in accordance with principles common to all Member States while leaving Member States free to apply their national provisions in respect of aspects not governed by this decision. In order to improve the readability of the Act, as amended by this Decision, its provisions should be renumbered, thus producing a clearer consolidated text. The Council has laid down this draft decision which it recommends to the Member States for adoption in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements. The following statements should be inserted in the Council minutes, at the time of the final adoption: - the Council considers that the provisions of the present Act should be subject to a re-examination before the second elections at the European Parliament, which will take place after the entry into force of the amendments to the 1976 Act which are the subject of the present decision. - the Council and the Commission take note of the statement from the United Kingdom according to which, with a view to honouring the obligation which renders it responsible for the application of the judgement made by the European Court of Human Rights in the Matthews case against the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom shall make sure that the necessary amendments are made so that voters in Gibraltar are able to participate in the European Parliament elections in the framework of the existing voting constituency of the United Kingdom and under the same conditions as the other voters in this constituency, in accordance with European Union law.�

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: 08964/2002
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A5-0212/2002
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0301/2002
• : Decision 2002/772
• : OJ L 283 21.10.2002, p. 0001
• : Corrigendum to final act 32002D0772R(01)
• : OJ L 126 21.05.2009, p. 0023

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)