Examples of using Majority voting and codecision in English and their translations into Danish
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They advocated that with such a new wording, qualified majority voting and codecision should be applied.
But we need qualified majority voting and codecision in asylum, immigration and judicial cooperation as provided for in Article 251 of the Treaty.
For this reason,I agree wholeheartedly with the Council about using qualified majority voting and codecision.
The Group recommends a move to qualified majority voting and codecision for Union legislation in these areas 1.
Mr Barón Crespo asked several questions which primarily concern the link between qualified majority voting and codecision.
The Group recalls the recommendation made by WG XI to move to qualified majority voting and codecision for Union legislation in the areas dealt with in Article 63 TEC.
Was it agreed in the area of the third pillar that the emergency brake clause would suppress qualified majority voting and codecision?
If there was qualified majority voting and codecision with this Parliament, neither clause- I am sure- would be in this text since a more progressive majority would have prevailed.
The central point of this report, and the one we are emphasising, is the extension of qualified majority voting and codecision to Title IV of the Treaty establishing the European Community.
Finally, the Group notes that, by virtue of the Treaty of Nice, all measures concerning judicialcooperation in civil matters, with the exception of aspects touching on family law, will be covered by the procedure of qualified majority voting and codecision.
We obviously welcome the moves towards qualified majority voting and codecision, and assume that this will also bring the European Court of Justice into play, although this is something not yet made explicit.
Incidentally, the French will probably be interested to learn that the Commission is asking for Article 67 of the Amsterdam Treaty to be amended in order to establish majority voting and codecision with the European Parliament.
The Treaty of Nice stipulates that qualified majority voting and codecision will apply in this area only after the Council has previously adopted, by unanimity, legislation defining the common rules and basic principles governing these issues.
In other words, we must find a way to explain the things we are doing and in doing so we must defend the progress, the legal personality,the extension of qualified majority voting and codecision, the advances in foreign policy.
But the lack of extension of qualified majority voting and codecision strengthens competition between the Member States, between the Fifteen and a fortiori between the Twenty-seven,and undermines the future of the European social model.
This is going to give some constitutional experts a real headache. That is why we are advising in no uncertain terms, Mr President-in-Office,that the earliest possible use be made of the opportunities for introducing majority voting and codecision to this Parliament.
We welcome the extra time given to the Convention to complete its work on Part III,though for the Council to describe the remaining discussions on majority voting and codecision as'purely technical work' is a masterpiece of understatement worthy of the British Government's description of the whole process as just a'tidying-up exercise.
This is why I would again stress that for our policy on legal immigration and integration, as set by the mandate of the Intergovernmental Conference,we need to apply the principles of qualified majority voting and codecision with the European Parliament.
Whilst we recognize the changes that Amsterdam brought to the treaty by extending in some areas qualified majority voting and codecision and by introducing other minor institutional changes, we, who are so deeply involved, also recognize that not enough was done to create a decision-making structure for twenty-plus Member States.
Many, including Mr Eurlings and Mr Bourlanges and Mrs Rühle, have rightly and very importantly referred to the question of principle that is the desired transition to qualified majority voting and codecision in this whole field of asylum and migration.
The extension of qualified majority voting and codecision to real issues, the preservation of Article 250 in its current form, the place and role of the Commission in closer cooperation, in respect of more than just the first pillar: these are some of the factors that will allow us see straight away whether we are talking of success or failure.
This is why, for all crucial issues connected with the international movement of persons,my group hopes that we stay with this method and reject the possibility of switching over to majority voting and codecision with the European Parliament, as provided for by the Amsterdam Treaty.
The Convention takes the approach of enhanced supranationality, in other words false democracy,by widely applying qualified majority voting and codecision, without any safety net for the national democracies as such, by establishing a European Constitution superior to the national Constitutions, and by transferring to the Union competences in the area of fundamental rights through the incorporation of the Charter.
Against this backdrop,the Group submits the following three recommendations:- That qualified majority voting and codecision be made applicable in the Treaty for legislation on asylum, refugees and displaced persons;- That Article 63§ 1 and§ 2 TEC be redrafted in order to create a general legal base enabling the adoption of the measures needed to put in place a common asylum system and a common policy on refugees and displaced persons as set out in Tampere.
The other point from Nice on which Parliament will judge Nice is the extension of qualified majority voting and Parliament' s codecision.
We expect the Council to respect the budgetary powers of Parliament and extend democracy in our Union through qualified majority voting and greater codecision.
I welcome the Presidency's proposal to make the transition, on 1 April 2005, to qualified majority voting and to codecision for the whole of the chapter on asylum, immigration and borders, and I call for those Member States which are not convinced to allow, as quickly as possible, this transition to codecision in all areas in accordance with Article 67 of the Treaty.
Finally, I hope that the Member States respect the mandate of the Intergovernmental Conference to put the matter of legal immigration to qualified majority voting and to codecision. .
This applies, for example, to extending the scope of qualified majority voting and of the codecision procedure, and to the method of appointing the President of the Commission.
I would have liked to see theHeads of State and Government already moving in favour of qualified majority voting and the codecision procedure, instead of giving themselves time to think about it.