Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-11-06-Speech-4-070"
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"en.20031106.6.4-070"2
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"It is very good to want to abolish discrimination in election candidacies, as proposed by the Dybkjær report, but it is still better not to add to the discrimination. The French law of 11 April 2003, which regionalises the method of balloting for the European elections, clearly puts the small to medium-sized parties at a disadvantage.
In these conditions, it may be maintained that this law infringes the decision of the Council of European Ministers of 25 June 2002 according to which, when – as is the case in France – a European ballot taking place in a single national constituency is regionalised, the reform must take place ‘without affecting the essentially proportional nature of the voting system’.
Strangest of all, the European decision of 2002 has, in accordance with Article 190(4) of the Treaty, been adopted by France by means of a law enacted only on 16 October 2003. In other words, the proper procedure is now apparently to adapt the French law of April 2003 to the European decision approved in October.
Unfortunately, it has also to be said that no provision has been made for removing such a contradiction between national and Community law."@en1
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