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Changes from plenary report to adopted text
A-9-2022-0083 → TA-9-2022-0129
- From
- A-9-2022-0083 Plenary report of 4 Apr 2022
- To
- TA-9-2022-0129 Adopted text of 3 May 2022
- Changes
- 120 changes to the text
- Paragraphs
- +12 added · −10 removed · 124 changed
More facts (2)
- Title (from)
- on the proposal for a Council Regulation on the election of the members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage, repealing Council Decision (76/787/ECSC, EEC, Euratom) and the Act concerning the election of the members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage annexed to that decision
- Title (to)
- Election of the Members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage
Every difference
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Part 5 of 7: Paragraphs 226–285
10. The order of candidates resident in any of the Member States in each of the three groups of Member States included in Annex I shall vary in each list section of three slots up to the list slot corresponding to the number resulting from dividing the total number of seats by two, where necessary rounding up to the next whole number.
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Changed11. The total population of the Member States shall be calculated by the Commission (Eurostat) on the basis of the most recent data provided by the Member States, in accordance with a method established by means of Regulation (EU) No 1260/2013 of the European Parliament and of the CouncilCouncil.
12. The apportionment of seats to the Union-wide lists based on the aggregated results in the Union-wide constituency shall be carried out in accordance with the D’Hondt system, as follows:
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Changed(a) Thethe numbers of votes obtained by the candidates are ordered from highest to lowest, in a column;
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Changed(b) Thethe number of votes obtained by each candidacy is divided by 1,2,3, etc., up to a number equal to the number of seats corresponding to the constituency, forming a table similar to the one that appears in Annex III. The seats are attributed to the candidates that obtain the highest ratios in the table, attending to a decreasing order;
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Changed(c) Whenwhen two seats corresponding to different candidacies coincide in the list of quotients, the seat will beis allocated to the list with the highest total number of votes obtained. If there are two candidates with the same number of votes, the first tie will beis resolved by lottery and the successive ones alternatively.
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13. European and national public broadcasters shall provide broadcasting time in proportion to the results of the preceding election to the Union-wide constituency, ensuring minimum broadcasting time for every Union-wide list.
Article 16
Financing of electoral campaigns of European electoral entities
The provisions of Chapters IV and V of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1141/2014 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the financing of the electoral campaigns of European electoral entities.
Article 17
Common provisions related to electoral campaigns
1. Electoral campaigning shall not start until eight weeks before the Election day.
2. Electoral campaigning consists of asking voters for their votes in an election to the European Parliament by means of print or digital material and other formats of public communication, media advertising, and public events. Electoral campaign materials shall include the logo and a reference to the manifesto or programme of the European electoral entity to which the national party is affiliated.
3. Electoral campaign materials shall be accessible to persons with disabilities.
4. In the national constituencies, the ballot papers used in elections to the European Parliament shall be uniform, give equal visibility to the names, acronyms, symbols and logos, if any, of national political parties and/or national associations of voters, and to those of the European electoral entities when affiliated to any of them, and shall feature the list of names of the candidates and, where appropriate of the substitutes, in the order in which they appear on the relevant electoral lists.
5. The rules concerning the posting of electoral materials to voters in elections to the European Parliament shall be the same as those applied for national, regional and local elections in the Member State concerned.
6. Member States shall ensure that European electoral entities are given equal treatment and opportunities as national political parties and national associations of voters regarding the electoral campaign related to the Union-wide constituency.
7. Member States shall implement a European electoral reserve period of 48 hours before the Election day, during which it shall not be permitted to ask electors about their voting intentions.
Article 18
Contact authorities
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Changed1. Each Member State shall designate a contact authority responsible for exchanging, with its counterparts in the other Member States and with the European Electoral Authority established in accordance with Article 28 ,28, data on voters necessary for establishing the European electoral roll in accordance with Article 9(2), and on candidates.
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2. The contact authority referred to in paragraph 1 shall, in accordance with the applicable Union law concerning the protection of personal data, begin transmitting to those counterparts and to the European Electoral Authority, no later than six weeks before the Election day the data indicated in Articles 9 and 10 of Council Directive 93/109/EC concerning citizens of the Union who have been entered on the national electoral rolls and European electoral roll or are standing as candidates, in a Member State of which they are not nationals.
Article 19
Election day
1. Elections to the European Parliament shall be held on 9 May of the last year of a parliamentary term, as referred to in Article 20 (the “Election day”).
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Changed2. During the opening hours of the polling stations and from half an hour before polling stations open, any political activities at the polling stations or in their proximity isshall be prohibited, without prejudice to any activity organised to celebrate Europe Day in the Member States.
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Changed3. The elections shall end in all Member States by 21:00 local time on thatElection day. To take into account the time difference, elections to the European Parliament may be held on 8 May of the last year of a parliamentary term in the Union’s overseas countries and territories.
4. Member States shall not make public the results of their count officially or on a provisional basis until after the close of polling, in accordance with paragraph 3, in the Member State whose electors are the last to vote.
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Changed5. Member States may declare the Election day a national holiday.
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Article 20
Determination and publication of the election results
1. The election results in the Union-wide constituency and in the national constituencies shall be proclaimed, in that order, by the European Electoral Authority, on the basis of the information provided by the contact authorities.
2. The official election results shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 21
Parliamentary term and mandate
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Changed1. The five-year term for which membersMembers of the European Parliament are elected shall begin at the opening of the first session following each election (the “parliamentary term”).
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Changed2. The term of office of each memberMember of the European Parliament shall begin and end in accordance with the parliamentary term (the “mandate”).
Article 22
Convening of Parliament
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ChangedIn addition to the obligation set out in Article 229 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the European Parliament shall meet, without requiring to be convened, on the first Tuesday after expiry of an interval of one month from the Election day.
Article 23
Verification of credentials
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ChangedThe European Parliament shall verify the credentials of membersMembers of the European Parliament.
For this purpose, it shall take note of the results declared officially by the Member States and proclaimed by the European Electoral Authority.
Article 24
Incompatibilities
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Changed1. The office of memberMember of the European Parliament shall be incompatible with the following offices:
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– member of the government of a Member State,
– member of a national or regional parliament or assembly vested with legislative powers,
– member of the European Commission,
– Judge, Advocate-General or Registrar of the Court of Justice of the European Union,
– member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank,
– member of the Court of Auditors,
– European Ombudsman,
– member of the Economic and Social Committee,
– member of the Committee of the Regions,
– member of committees or other bodies set up pursuant to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union or the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community for the purposes of managing the Union's funds or carrying out a permanent direct administrative task,
– member of the Board of Directors, Management Committee or staff of the European Investment Bank,
– active official or servant of the institutions of the European Union or of the specialised bodies attached to them or of the European Central Bank.
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BibTeX
@misc{epw-text-2022-05-03,
author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{Changes between A-9-2022-0083 and TA-9-2022-0129}},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-05-03},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/A-9-2022-0083/compare/TA-9-2022-0129?all=1&part=5}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/A-9-2022-0083/compare/TA-9-2022-0129?all=1&part=5},
urldate = {2026-09-28},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Text. from A-9-2022-0083, to TA-9-2022-0129. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
}