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Co-decision procedure of the EU

For a legislative instrument, subject to the co-decision procedure, the Commission proposal is sent to the Parliament and the Council.

At the Parliament it is first referred to the appropriate (subject) committee, where it is studied and amendments are proposed where deemed necessary.

Amendments may also be added by the various political groups.

A report with a draft resolution (commending the [usually] amended version of the instrument to the Council and Commission) is then submitted to the plenary for a vote, where a 'common position' the instrument- with or without amendments - is invariably passed.

Meanwhile, the Council is also voting on the instrument, producing its own common position, which usually means there is now divergence between the two drafts.

The instrument goes back to the Parliamentary committee where they 'take note' of the Council position, and also of the Commission comments on the respective 'positions'.

Further amendments are usually tabled, in an attempt to bring the positions together and the instrument then goes to a second reading in the plenary.

If there are still then divergences between the amended Parliamentary common position and the Council position, the instrument then goes to a conciliation committee, chaired by the Commission, where the final joint common position is hammered out.

This then goes for a third reading in the plenary.

If the Parliament votes against this (by rejecting one or more of the amendment), it can be overturned, and thus Parliament is ignored, by a unanimous vote of the Council, otherwise the original proposal falls and must be resubmitted (with or without modifications) by the Commission sometime in the future.

Simple really, it just isn't democracy!

Democracy is not just a matter of a group of people voting, much though many people believe that it is. It is a matter of a group representative of those being represented [a Demos] being those who vote. A collection of MEP's or the like forming that Demos is demonstrably NOT a democratic representation.

Democracy is a completely unobtainable goal within a structure such as the EU as the needs, requirements, customs, laws, structures, climates, traditions and aspirations of the peoples FORCED together does not and can not EVER form a Demos - though it may be possible to form a Demos of their self selected political classes who have much in common - such as greed, hubris, arrogance etc. such that they are distanced by those very traits from the peoples, yet themselves can form together to exploit the peoples, thus  being a Demos of self interest.

That the differences between the peoples of the EU far outweigh the similarities is quite obvious to all who have watched the Machinations of the central dictator committee and its apparatchiks to constantly force square pegs into round holes against the will of the pegs and to the discomfort of the holes! Just imagine the potential for abuse of the peoples by the centralised clique, a Demos divorced from those they pretend [in both senses of the word] to represent, as additional Countries are suckered into the EU.

Those supposedly voting will be so divorced from the peoples it will by definition be an abuse of the peoples, which will grow exponentially as the peoples know less and less of the people pretending to represent them.

The representatives can ONLY become apparatchiks of the new State, which can thus only trample on the peoples as did the USSR, which it so closely resembles a model that no American style federation of states comprising an homogenised similarity of peoples could ever recognise as democratic or free.

It must be remembered that the Constitution of the USSR was arguably the most democratic constitution ever to be granted to a people!! The EU is already trying to impose its will on the people through Human Rights Acts, which in a civilised society are un-needed and are not rights within the EU merely privileges granted by the State on license!! Now, yet more frighteningly, the EU wishes to write and impose a Constitution!

The very foundations of the EU are corrupt and undemocratic and thus any development of such a structure can only be increasingly less democratic, more corrupt, less empowering and more oppressive for any peoples unfortunate enough to be forced under its centralised and undemocratic control.

Greg

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