2 Amendments of Bas BELDER related to 2012/0237(COD)
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) As a recognition of the mission attributed to European political parties in the Treaty and in order to facilitate their work, a specific European legal status should be established for European political parties and their affiliated European political foundations, providing them with full legal capacity and recognition in all the Member States. However the conditions for recognition and funding should not be so onerous as to restrict the funding to those European political parties and affiliated European political foundations which are already established.
Amendment 249 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1
Article 12 – paragraph 1
1. A European political party registered in accordance with the conditions and procedures laid down in this Regulation, which is represented in the European Parliament by at least one of its members, and having member parties within the meaning of Article 2(1) established in one quarter of the Member States which is not in one of the situations of exclusion referred to in Article [93] of the Financial Regulation may apply for funding from the general budget of the European Union, in accordance with the terms and conditions published by the European Parliament in a call for [contributions].