Article 1 — Subject matter and scope

1. This Directive lays down the detailed arrangements whereby Union citizens residing in a Member State of which they are not nationals (non-national Union citizens) may exercise the right to vote and to stand as a candidate there in elections to the European Parliament. 2. Nothing in this Directive shall affect each Member State’s provisions concerning the right to vote or to stand as a candidate of its nationals who reside outside its electoral territory.