CELEX: 52014DP0034
Language: en
Date: 2014-10-22 00:00:00
Title: European Parliament decision of 22 October 2014 electing the Commission (2014/2164(INS))

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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 274/47
            
         P8_TA(2014)0034
   Election of the Commission
   European Parliament decision of 22 October 2014 electing the Commission (2014/2164(INS))
   (2016/C 274/10)
   
      The European Parliament,
   
   
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               having regard to the second and third subparagraphs of Article 17(7) of the EU Treaty,
            
         
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               having regard to Article 106a of the Euratom Treaty,
            
         
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               having regard to European Council Decision 2014/414/EU of 27 June 2014 (1), proposing Jean-Claude Juncker as candidate for President of the Commission,
            
         
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               having regard to the statement and the presentation of his political guidelines made in plenary sitting by Jean-Claude Juncker on 15 July 2014,
            
         
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               having regard to its decision of 15 July 2014 (2) electing Jean-Claude Juncker as President of the Commission,
            
         
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               having regard to European Council Decision 2014/639/EU (3), taken with the agreement of the President-elect of the Commission, of 30 August 2014 appointing the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,
            
         
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               having regard to Council Decision 2014/716/EU, Euratom, taken by common accord with the President-elect of the Commission, of 15 October 2014 adopting the list of the other persons whom the Council proposes for appointment as Members of the Commission, repealing and replacing Decision 2014/648/EU, Euratom (4),
            
         
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               having regard to the hearings of the Commissioners-designate held from 29 September to 20 October 2014 before the parliamentary committees and in a meeting of the Conference of Presidents open to all Members, and to the evaluations of the Commissioners-designate after the hearings,
            
         
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               having regard to the examination conducted at the meeting of the Conference of Committee Chairs of 21 October 2014 and at the meeting of the Conference of Presidents of 21 October 2014,
            
         
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               having regard to the statement made in plenary sitting by the President-elect of the Commission on 22 October 2014,
            
         
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               having regard to Rule 118 of, and Annex XVI to, its Rules of Procedure,
            
         
            
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               Gives its consent to the appointment of the President, the Vice-President for External Relations (High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy) and the other Members of the Commission, as a body, for the term of office running to 31 October 2019;
            
         
            
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               Instructs its President to forward this decision to the European Council, the Council of Ministers and the President-elect of the Commission.
            
         
      (1)  OJ L 192, 1.7.2014, p. 52.
   
      (2)  Texts adopted, P8_TA(2014)0002.
   
      (3)  OJ L 262, 2.9.2014, p. 6.
   
      (4)  OJ L 299, 17.10.2014, p. 29.