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Council Decision (EU) 2018/994, amending the 1976 European Electoral act is not yet in force. According to Article 223 TFEU, Ϸվ has the exclusive right to propose amendments to the electoral rules, while the Council adopts them unanimously after Ϸվ's consent. Moreover, Member States must approve those adopted rules in accordance with their constitutional requirements. However, not all Member States have ratified the Council's 2018 decision.

The right to petition the European Ϸվ was formally set out in the Maastricht Treaty as one of the rights of European Union citizenship. Ϸվ's predecessors, from the beginnings of the Communities in the 1950s, had already recognised the importance of receiving petitions from citizens, and this has become a major expression of Ϸվ's role as the direct representative of EU citizens. Ϸվ's practice is based on those of national parliaments, but is often more ...