4. Composition of Parliament

The Italian authorities had given notice of the election of Giovanni Toti to the Presidency of the Regional Council of Liguria.

Since, pursuant to Article 7(3) of the Act of 20 September 1976 concerning the election of the members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage, this office was incompatible with that of Member of the European Parliament, Parliament established under Rule 4(4) of its Rules of Procedure that the vacancy would take effect from 10 July 2015.

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The Austrian authorities had given notice of the election of Karoline Graswander-Hainz to replace Jörg Leichtfried as Member of Parliament with effect from 9 July 2015.

The Italian authorities had given notice of the election of Stefano Maullu to replace Giovanni Toti as Member of Parliament with effect from 13 July 2015.

The Greek authorities had given notice of the election of Nikolaos Chountis to replace Emmanouil Glezos as Member of Parliament with effect from 20 July 2015.

The Swedish authorities had given notice of the election of Jasenko Selimovic to replace Marit Paulsen as Member of Parliament with effect from 30 September 2015.

The Dutch authorities had given notice of the election of Auke Zijlstra to replace Hans Jansen as Member of Parliament with effect from 1 September 2015.

Under Rule 3(2), until such time as their credentials had been verified or a ruling had been given on any dispute, and provided that they had previously made a written declaration stating that they did not hold any office incompatible with that of Member of the European Parliament, Karoline Graswander-Hainz, Stefano Maullu, Nikolaos Chountis, Jasenko Selimovic and Auke Zijlstra would take their seats in Parliament and on its bodies and would enjoy all the rights attaching thereto.