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Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament
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TITLE IV  : RELATIONS WITH OTHER BODIES
CHAPTER 5  : RESOLUTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Rule 116  : Written declarations

1.    Up to five Members may submit a written declaration of not more than 200 words on a matter falling within the sphere of activities of the European Union. Written declarations shall be printed in the official languages and distributed. They shall be included with the names of the signatories in a register. This register shall be public and shall be maintained outside the entrance to the Chamber during part-sessions and between part-sessions in an appropriate location to be determined by the College of Quaestors.

The contents of a written declaration shall not go beyond the form of a declaration and shall not, in particular, contain any decision on matters for the adoption of which specific procedures and competences are laid down in the Rules of Procedure.

2.    Any Member may add his signature to a declaration included in the register.

3.    Where a declaration is signed by the majority of Parliament's component Members, the President shall notify Parliament accordingly and publish the names of the signatories in the minutes.

4.    Such a declaration shall, at the end of the part-session, be forwarded to the institutions named therein together with the names of the signatories. It shall be included in the minutes of the sitting at which it is announced. Publication in the minutes shall close the procedure.

5.    A written declaration that has stood in the register for over three months and has not been signed by at least one half of the component Members of Parliament shall lapse.

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