European Union Subsidiarity Assessment: Electoral Law of the European Union

Baroness Kennedy of Shaws Excerpts

Thursday 4th February 2016 Lords Chamber

Moved by

[Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws]

To resolve that this House considers that the European Parliament Proposal for a Council decision adopting the provisions amending the Act concerning the election of the members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage does not comply with the principle of subsidiarity, for the reasons set out in the 7th Report from the European Union Committee (HL Paper 87); and, in accordance with article 6 of the Protocol on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, instructs the Clerk of the Parliaments to forward this reasoned opinion to the Presidents of the European institutions.

[Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws (Lab)]

My Lords, I beg to move the second Motion in my name.

[The Deputy Chairman of Committees (Lord Colwyn) (Con)]

The question is that the second Motion on the Order Paper in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy of The Shaws, be agreed to. As many as are of that opinion will say content.