CELEX: 52019DP0164
Language: en
Date: 2019-03-13 00:00:00
Title: European Parliament decision of 13 March 2019 concerning the failure in committee to secure a majority on a proposal for a legally binding act (interpretation of Rule 171(1), first subparagraph, point (b), of the Rules of Procedure) (2019/2011(REG))

21.1.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 23/170
            
         
      P8_TA(2019)0164
      Failure in committee to secure a majority on a proposal for a legally binding act (interpretation of Rule 171(1), first subparagraph, point (b), of the Rules of Procedure)
      European Parliament decision of 13 March 2019 concerning the failure in committee to secure a majority on a proposal for a legally binding act (interpretation of Rule 171(1), first subparagraph, point (b), of the Rules of Procedure) (2019/2011(REG))
      (2021/C 23/29)
      
         The European Parliament,
      
      
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                  having regard to the letter of 7 March 2019 from the Chair of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs,
               
            
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                  having regard to Rule 226 of its Rules of Procedure,
               
            
               
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                  Decides to append the following interpretation to Rule 171(1), first subparagraph, point (b), of the Rules of Procedure:
               
            ‘If the proposal for a legally binding act, as amended or otherwise, does not secure a majority of the votes cast in committee, then the committee shall propose to Parliament that the act be rejected.’
      
               
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                  Instructs its President to forward this decision to the Council and the Commission, for information.