CELEX: 52019DP0002
Language: en
Date: 2019-07-16 00:00:00
Title: European Parliament decision of 16 July 2019 on the election of the President of the Commission (2019/2041(INS))

4.5.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 165/22
            
         
      P9_TA(2019)0002
      Election of the President of the Commission
      European Parliament decision of 16 July 2019 on the election of the President of the Commission (2019/2041(INS))
      (2021/C 165/06)
      
         The European Parliament,
      
      
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                  having regard to the first subparagraph of Article 17(7) of the Treaty on European Union,
               
            
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                  having regard to Article 106a of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community,
               
            
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                  having regard to Declaration No 11 annexed to the Final Act of the Intergovernmental Conference which adopted the Treaty of Lisbon,
               
            
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                  having regard to European Council Decision (EU) 2019/1136 of 2 July 2019 (1), proposing Ursula von der Leyen as candidate for President of the Commission,
               
            
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                  having regard to Ursula von der Leyen’s statement and the presentation of her political guidelines made in plenary sitting on 16 July 2019,
               
            
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                  having regard to Rule 124 of its Rules of Procedure,
               
            
               
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                  Elects Ursula von der Leyen as the President of the Commission for the term of office running from 1 November 2019 until 31 October 2024;
               
            
               
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                  Instructs its President to ask the Council and Ursula von der Leyen to propose by common accord the nominees for appointment as members of the Commission;
               
            
               
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                  Instructs its President to forward this decision to the European Council and the Council and to the President-elect of the Commission.
               
            
         (1)  OJ L 179 I, 3.7.2019, p. 2.