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Parliament voted today on a report requesting the Commission to submit a proposal for a regulation on the citizens’ initiative as soon as the Treaty of Lisbon is ratified. The citizens’ initiative will mean that one million citizens coming from a significant number of Member States will be able to take the initiative to request the Commission to submit a legislative proposal. This will give citizens the same right as the Council to request the Commission to initiate legislative proposals.
We have chosen to vote in favour of this report because the European Parliament needs to prepare itself to be able to implement the changes that will occur in connection with its work if the Treaty of Lisbon enters into force. However, our votes should not in any way be seen as us pre-empting the individual Member States’ ratification processes. We fully respect each Member State’s right to decide for itself whether to ratify the Treaty of Lisbon."@en1
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