Recitals
- Recital (1)A number of amendments are to be made to Council Directive 93/109/EC. In the interests of clarity, that Directive should be recast.
- Recital (2)Article 20(2), first subparagraph, point (b), and Article 22(2) of the of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) confer…
- Recital (3)The detailed arrangements governing the exercise of the right to vote and to stand as a candidate in elections to the European Parliament…
- Recital (4)In the EU Citizenship Report 2020, the Commission stressed the need to update, clarify and strengthen the rules on the exercise of the…
- Recital (5)Article 22(2) TFEU is without prejudice to Article 223(1) TFEU, which provides for the establishment of a uniform procedure in all Member…
- Recital (6)In order to ensure that Union citizens who reside in a Member State of which they are not nationals (non-national Union citizens) are able…
- Recital (7)The freedom of Union citizens to choose the Member State in which to take part in elections to the European Parliament must be respected,…
- Recital (8)In line with international and European standards, including the requirements of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights…
- Recital (9)In order to facilitate the exercise by Union citizens of their right to vote and to stand as a candidate in their country of residence,…
- Recital (10)While Member States are competent to determine the right to vote or to stand as a candidate in elections to the European Parliament as…
- Recital (11)In order to ensure the equal treatment of non-national Union citizens seeking to exercise the right to stand as a candidate for election in…
- Recital (12)In order to facilitate the accurate identification of voters and candidates registered both in their home Member State and in their Member…
- Recital (13)Union citizens who have been deprived of their right to vote or to stand as a candidate, on the basis of an individual civil law or…
- Recital (14)It should be possible for the Member State of residence to check that Union citizens who have expressed a desire to exercise their right to…
- Recital (15)Given that the admissibility procedure in a Member State necessarily entails administrative steps for a national of another Member State in…
- Recital (16)In order to prevent multiple voting or instances where the same person would stand as a candidate more than once in the same elections,…
- Recital (17)The information exchange between Member States to prevent multiple voting or instances where the same person would stand as a candidate…
- Recital (18)For defining responsibilities, obligations and technical standards for the operation of the framework, in accordance with Chapter IV of…
- Recital (19)The accessibility of information on electoral rights and procedures is a key component in ensuring the effective exercise of the right…
- Recital (20)The lack of adequate information, in the context of electoral procedures, affects citizens in the exercise of their electoral rights as…
- Recital (21)In order to improve the accessibility of electoral information, such information should be made available, for example on a generally…
- Recital (22)Any derogation from the general rules of this Directive has to be warranted, pursuant to Article 22(2) TFEU, by problems specific to a…
- Recital (23)Specific problems could arise in a Member State in which the proportion of Union citizens of voting age who reside in it but are not…
- Recital (24)Member States in which the proportion of non-national Union citizens of voting age exceeds 20 % of the total number of Union citizens of…
- Recital (25)Account has to be taken of the fact that, in certain Member States, residents who are nationals of other Member States have the right to…
- Recital (26)Statistical data regarding the exercise of electoral rights and the application of this Directive can be useful in the identification of…
- Recital (27)In order to improve the collection of data for elections to the European Parliament, it is necessary to introduce regular monitoring and…
- Recital (28)The collection and processing of personal data for the purpose of producing statistical data on the participation of non-national Union…
- Recital (29)It is necessary that the Commission conduct its own evaluation of the application of this Directive within a reasonable timeframe after at…
- Recital (30)Member States should be able to require non-national Union citizens to submit specific additional data as part of the formal declarations…
- Recital (31)The Member States, by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and the Union, by concluding that…
- Recital (32)Regulations (EU) 2016/679 and (EU) 2018/1725 apply to personal data processed when implementing this Directive.
- Recital (33)The European Data Protection Supervisor was consulted in accordance with Article 42(1) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 and delivered formal…
- Recital (34)This Directive respects fundamental rights and the principles recognised in particular by the Charter, in particular Articles 21 and 39…
- Recital (35)The obligation to transpose this Directive into national law should be confined to those provisions, that represent a substantive amendment…
- Recital (36)This Directive should be without prejudice to the obligations of the Member States relating to the time limits for the transposition into…
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