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PURPOSE: to make amendments to the Act\nconcerning the election of the Members of the European Parliament\nby direct universal suffrage (electoral act).
\nPROPOSED ACT: Council Decision.
\nROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: Council may\nadopt the act only if Parliament has given its consent to the\nact.
\nCONTENT: the Council proposes to amend the 1976\nElectoral Act which lays down a number of common rules\nconcerning elections to the European Parliament (EP).
\nThe main change concerns the introduction of an\nobligatory minimum threshold of between 2% and 5% for\nconstituencies with more than 35 seats in the EP elections.\nThis rule would also apply to single-constituency member\nstates.
\nMember States shall:
\nMember States shall also be required to take\nmeasures necessary to ensure that double voting in elections to the\nEuropean Parliament is subject to effective, proportionate and\ndissuasive penalties. They shall designate a contact authority responsible for\nexchanging data on voters and candidates with its counterparts in\nthe other Member States.
\nThe Committee on\nConstitutional Affairs adopted the report by Danuta Maria\nHÜBNER (EPP, PL) and Jo LEINEN (S&D, DE) on the draft\nCouncil decision amending the Act concerning the election of the\nmembers of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage,\nannexed to Council Decision 76/787/ECSC, EEC, Euratom of 20\nSeptember 1976.
\nThe committee\nrecommended that the European Parliament give its consent to the\ndraft Council decision.
\nIn the\nexplanatory memorandum accompanying the draft legislative\nresolution, Members recalled that in November 2015, Parliament\nadopted a\nproposal for the reform of EU electoral law that aimed to\nencourage citizens participation, to reinforce the European\ndimension of elections, to make Parliaments own functioning\nmore efficient, and to improve the conduct of elections.
\nThe draft Council\ndecision - which represents the maximum that could be achieved in\nthe current political context and in view of the constraints of the\nprocedure - contains several positive elements that will\nsignificantly improve the character and conduct of the European\nelections in the future:
\nThe European Parliament adopted by 397 votes to 202,\nwith 62 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the draft Council\ndecision amending the Act concerning the election of the members of\nthe European Parliament by direct universal suffrage annexed to\nDecision 76/787/ECSC, EEC, Euratom of 20 September 1976.
\nThe European Parliament has given its consent\nto the draft Council decision.
\nPURPOSE: to make amendments to the Act\nconcerning the election of the Members of the European Parliament\nby direct universal suffrage (electoral act).
\nPROPOSED ACT: Council Decision.
\nROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: Council may\nadopt the act only if Parliament has given its consent to the\nact.
\nCONTENT: the Council proposes to amend the 1976\nElectoral Act which lays down a number of common rules\nconcerning elections to the European Parliament (EP).
\nThe main change concerns the introduction of an\nobligatory minimum threshold of between 2% and 5% for\nconstituencies with more than 35 seats in the EP elections.\nThis rule would also apply to single-constituency member\nstates.
\nMember States shall:
\nMember States shall also be required to take\nmeasures necessary to ensure that double voting in elections to the\nEuropean Parliament is subject to effective, proportionate and\ndissuasive penalties. They shall designate a contact authority responsible for\nexchanging data on voters and candidates with its counterparts in\nthe other Member States.
\nThe Committee on\nConstitutional Affairs adopted the report by Danuta Maria\nHÜBNER (EPP, PL) and Jo LEINEN (S&D, DE) on the draft\nCouncil decision amending the Act concerning the election of the\nmembers of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage,\nannexed to Council Decision 76/787/ECSC, EEC, Euratom of 20\nSeptember 1976.
\nThe committee\nrecommended that the European Parliament give its consent to the\ndraft Council decision.
\nIn the\nexplanatory memorandum accompanying the draft legislative\nresolution, Members recalled that in November 2015, Parliament\nadopted a\nproposal for the reform of EU electoral law that aimed to\nencourage citizens participation, to reinforce the European\ndimension of elections, to make Parliaments own functioning\nmore efficient, and to improve the conduct of elections.
\nThe draft Council\ndecision - which represents the maximum that could be achieved in\nthe current political context and in view of the constraints of the\nprocedure - contains several positive elements that will\nsignificantly improve the character and conduct of the European\nelections in the future:
\nThe European Parliament adopted by 397 votes to 202,\nwith 62 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the draft Council\ndecision amending the Act concerning the election of the members of\nthe European Parliament by direct universal suffrage annexed to\nDecision 76/787/ECSC, EEC, Euratom of 20 September 1976.
\nThe European Parliament has given its consent\nto the draft Council decision.
\n