CELEX: 52012XP0277
Language: en
Date: 2012-07-03 00:00:00
Title: Electronic signature of amendments (interpretation of Rule 156(1) of Parliament's Rules of Procedure) Decision of the European Parliament of 3 July 2012 concerning a pilot project allowing amendments tabled in committee to be signed electronically (interpretation of the second subparagraph of Rule 156(1) of Parliament's Rules of Procedure)

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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               CE 349/101
            
         Tuesday 3 July 2012Electronic signature of amendments (interpretation of Rule 156(1) of Parliament's Rules of Procedure)
   P7_TA(2012)0277
   Decision of the European Parliament of 3 July 2012 concerning a pilot project allowing amendments tabled in committee to be signed electronically (interpretation of the second subparagraph of Rule 156(1) of Parliament's Rules of Procedure)
   2013/C 349 E/17
   
      The European Parliament,
   
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               having regard to the letter of 19 June 2012 from the Chair of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs,
            
         
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               having regard to Rule 211 of its Rules of Procedure,
            
         
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               Decides to append the following interpretation to the second subparagraph of Rule 156(1):
               "Amendments may be signed electronically as part of a pilot project involving a limited number of parliamentary committees, on condition, first, that the committees participating in the project have given their agreement and, second, that appropriate measures have been put in place to ensure the authenticity of the signatures."
            
         
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               Instructs its President to forward this decision to the Council and the Commission, for information.