1 Amendments of Enrique BARÓN CRESPO related to 2007/2124(REG)
Amendment 88 #
Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 10 a (new) (*)
Rule 10 a (new) (*)
Article 10 a (*) Further to the relevant European Council Declaration of December 2008, once the Treaty of Lisbon enters into force, the 18 additional Members resulting from the difference between arrangements specified for the 2009 European elections and those specified in the Declarations annexed to the Final Act of the 2007 Intergovernmental Conference shall enter the European Parliament with observer status. These observer MEPs shall enjoy all prerogatives accorded to Members of the European Parliament once primary European Union law has been amended as indicated in the European Council Declaration of December 2008. The appointment of observer MEPs shall be the responsibility of each Member State concerned in accordance with its electoral law and shall be adopted within 30 calendar days of the publication of the Treaty of Lisbon in the Official Journal of the European Union.