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The Constitutional Affairs Committee adopted by 17
votes to 5, with 3 abstentions, a report drawn up by
Alain LAMASSOURE (EPP-ED, FR) and Adrian SEVERIN (PES, RO) on
the composition of the European Parliament.
The report proposes to divide the seats of the next
Parliament on the basis of 750 members. The number of
representatives in the European Parliament elected in each Member
State will be allocated as follows, with effect from the 2009-2014
legislature :
- Germany: 96
- France : 74
- United Kingdom :
73
- Italy : 72
- Spain: 54
- Poland : 51
- Romania : 33
- Netherlands : 26
- Greece : 22
- Portugal : 22
- Belgium : 22
- Czech Republic : 22
- Hungary : 22
- Sweden : 20
- Austria : 19
- Bulgaria : 18
- Denmark : 13
- Slovakia : 13
- Finland : 13
- Ireland : 12
- Lithuania : 12
- Latvia : 9
- Slovenia : 8
- Estonia : 6
- Cyprus : 6
- Luxembourg : 6
- Malta : 6
This division conforms to the rules established by the
European Council of June 2007 which had invited the European
Parliament to submit a draft initiative by October 2007. The
Council had specified that there would be an overall limit of 750
seats, with a maximum of 96 and a minimum of 6 per Member State,
and the composition must be based on the principle of
'degressive proportionality',
The Committee considered that the principle of
degressive proportionality meant that "the ratio between the
population and the number of seats of each Member State must vary
in relation to their respective populations in such a way that each
Member from a more populous Member State represents more citizens
than each Member from a less populous Member State and
conversely, but also that no less populous Member State has more
seats than a more populous Member State".
Members drew attention to the political link between
the new composition of Parliament on the basis of the principle of
degressive proportionality', and the global reforms affecting the
European institutions, particularly the principle of double
majority in the Council and the composition of the European
Commission and underlined the importance of ensuring that the
reforms were coherent.
The Committee asked that the division of seats be
revised sufficiently before the legislature of 2014-2019 so as to
allow the re-allocation of seats between Member States in good time
and in an objective manner, based on the principle of degressive
proportionality, and taking account of the future increase of its
number as well as demographic changes.
Parliament considered it best at this point, not to
consider the impact of any future accessions which could lead to an
increase in the 750 limit, as took place at the time of the
accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the EU.
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The European Parliament adopted a resolution drafted
by Alain LAMASSOURE (EPP-ED, FR) and Adrian SEVERIN
(PES, RO) on the composition of the European Parliament. The report
adopted by 378 votes in favour to 154 against, with 109
abstentions.
Parliament recalled that at its meeting of 21 and 22
June 2007, the European Council had asked the European Parliament
to submit a draft initiative for a decision on the future
composition of the European Parliament. This decision had to
respect the criteria laid down in TEU i.e a total number of
representatives of the citizens of the Union which did not exceed
seven hundred and fifty members, this representation being achieved
in a degressively proportional manner, with a minimum threshold of
six members per Member State, while no Member State may be
allocated more than ninety-six seats.
The report proposes to divide the seats of the next
Parliament on the basis of 750 members. The number of
representatives in the European Parliament elected in each Member
State will be allocated as follows, with effect from the 2009-2014
legislature :
- Germany: 96
- France : 74
- United Kingdom :
73
- Italy : 72
- Spain: 54
- Poland : 51
- Romania : 33
- Netherlands : 26
- Greece : 22
- Portugal : 22
- Belgium : 22
- Czech Republic : 22
- Hungary : 22
- Sweden : 20
- Austria : 19
- Bulgaria : 18
- Denmark : 13
- Slovakia : 13
- Finland : 13
- Ireland : 12
- Lithuania : 12
- Latvia : 9
- Slovenia : 8
- Estonia : 6
- Cyprus : 6
- Luxembourg : 6
- Malta : 6
The principle of degressive proportionality provided
for in the Treaty on European Union will be applied as
follows:
- the minimum and maximum numbers set by the Treaty
must be fully utilised to ensure that the allocation of seats in
the European Parliament reflects as closely as possible the range
of populations of the Member States;
- the larger the population of a Member State, the
greater its entitlement to a large number of seats;
- the larger the population of a Member State, the
more inhabitants are represented by each of its Members of the
European Parliament.
This decision must be revised sufficiently long in
advance of the beginning of the 2014-2019 parliamentary term with
the aim of establishing a system which in future will make it
possible, before each fresh election to the European Parliament, to
reallocate the seats between the Member States in an objective
manner, based on the principle of degressive proportionality,
taking account of any increase in their number and in demographic
trends in their population as duly ascertained. Parliament felt
that it was desirable not to take account at this stage of the
impact of possible future enlargements, which, in the corresponding
acts of accession, might result in the ceiling of 750 being
temporarily exceeded. This was the procedure adopted at the time of
the accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union.
Members also called for an examination of the technical and
political feasibility of taking account, not the number of
inhabitants as ascertained annually by Eurostat, but of the number
of European citizens. Following the adoption of a compromise
amendment, Parliament called on its representatives at the
Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) to forward to the Conference a
draft Declaration concerning Article 2 of draft Protocol No 10 on
transitional provisions, and called on the IGC to annex that
Declaration to its Final Act. That Declaration states that
the Conference invites the Parliament to make a proposal for
the election of its members by direct universal suffrage, which
more precisely defines the term 'citizens' as provided for in
Article 9a(2) of the Treaty on European Union. That proposal should
be drawn up in good time before the next elections in
2014.
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