Examples of using To qualified majority voting in English and their translations into Finnish
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It could then be decided to move to qualified majority voting.
While a move to qualified majority voting at least for certain tax issues is indispensable, the legal basis will, for the present, remain unanimity.
The Council cannot itself alter the Treaty' s regulations from simple to qualified majority voting.
Some people feel that changing over to qualified majority voting comes up against problems with the transfer of sovereignty.
This point is very important because we have put in place an arrangement that, over time,will permit the transition to qualified majority voting.
I am worried that the changeover to qualified majority voting is not directly linked to codecision with the European Parliament.
We are told we should have gone further in the difficult debate on the number of questions that are to be subject to qualified majority voting.
As noted above,it remains the Commission's view that a move to qualified majority voting at least for certain tax issues is indispensable.
The reference to qualified majority voting to joint actions under the CFSP goes beyond the position of the Socialist Group and the new British Labour Government.
A time will come, however, when, just as the transition has been made from unanimity to qualified majority voting, a new procedure will be required in this regard.
We need to move over to qualified majority voting to have an efficient working basis under Article 151 of the Treaties.
I should like to remind you of a central innovation that has been little talked about:the content of our article on the transition from unanimity to qualified majority voting.
No- we decided in Amsterdam to move to qualified majority voting, we reinforced that in Nice and we did it with the Constitution.
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.
You will all know very well that the move to qualified majority voting for Article 151, that Parliament and the Commission had requested, has not been included in the Treaty of Nice.
There is only one solution to this situation given that there are so many of us round the table- there will soon be 25 of us and, one day,30- and that is a shift to qualified majority voting for the majority of subjects.
Finland has proposed switching to qualified majority voting for decisions on police cooperation and cooperation on crime, a change that is already possible under the existing Treaties.
The second folly is that of my country in particular, which is perhaps the mostaffected by these proposals, having subjected itself to qualified majority voting in the Council on these matters to the point where we are now probably going to be impotent to resist them.
It remains the Commission's view that a move to qualified majority voting at least for certain tax issues is indispensable, and in particular when there are serious distortions of the Internal Market, but the legal basis will, for the present, remain unanimity.
That is why I welcome the fact that, in spite of everything, the European Council sent an unequivocal message that more effective decision-making on justice andhome affairs is important, along with the principles set out in the Constitutional Treaty, and that means switching to qualified majority voting.
The legal base of the proposed Council Regulation is Article 105a subject to qualified majority voting and the cooperation procedure with the European Parliament.
Mr President, I should like to return to the issue ofthe Hague Programme and to ask the Council a number of questions relating to this Programme, which undoubtedly represents a major innovation in its introduction of a move to qualified majority voting for Title IV.
While it remains the Commission's view that a move to qualified majority voting at least for certain tax issues is indispensable, the legal basis will, for the present, remain unanimity.
In a new context, the institutional progress envisaged in the field of justice and home affairs at the Intergovernmental Conference, andin particular the transition to qualified majority voting in the enlarged Union, will make it possible to increase the rate of completion of work.
For legal bases of this kind, provision could be made for a move to qualified majority voting on a specific date e.g. Articles III-170(family law), III-176 police cooperation.
Therefore, even though we may not call them leftovers, the issues which were not adequately resolved in Nice will inevitably arise again.I refer to the changeover in qualitatively essential areas to qualified majority voting and to the very procedures for taking majority decisions.
Future changes to policies within existing competences, extensions to qualified majority voting and use of co-decision can be agreed without needing to call a new IGC, while preserving the need for unanimous agreement.
They are determined to give the fullest effect appropriate t o the Protocol as regards the composition of the Commission and the weighting of votes andconsider thar a significant extension of recourse to qualified majority voting forms part of the relevant factors which should be taken into account.
The heart of the matter is, of course, that,in 59 areas, there is a shift from unanimity to qualified majority voting, that is to say from unanimity, in which each country's voters have the last word, to qualified majority voting among officials, ministers and lobbyists behind closed doors in Brussels.
I do of course recognize how sensitive these areas are. But, at the same time,I would say to those who are hesitant about moving to qualified majority voting that it is precisely because this area is so sensitive and crucial that the European Union must be able to take the necessary steps.