assent procedure

With the best will in the world this cannot be described as an assent procedure.

I would just like to thank my colleagues and to recommend a positive vote in the assent procedure.

The Commission should have chosen the assent procedure instead.

It would be illogical if assent procedure were not applied in this case.

A question which is all the more relevant in that the assent procedure does not apply to the results of the negotiations.

Parliament cannot amend an international treaty, and that is why we have the assent procedure.

The assent procedure was introduced by the Single European Act.

A consultation procedure is certainly necessary; an assent procedure would be the better solution.

However, it is important to remember that the assent procedure very much ties us in to what happened in Amsterdam.

The areas included under the assent procedure were:

But we are disappointed that the Council has preferred the consultation procedure to the assent procedure.

The assent procedure remains in place.

The European Parliament must now follow once again the exceptional assent procedure of Article 300(3).

The European Commission had selected the assent procedure as the legal basis for this Regulation.

Due to these considerable financial repercussions on the EU-budget, as we have just heard, the assent procedure comes into play.

What is required is for the assent procedure to be applied to all major international agreements once and for all.

No, the usual order has been followed for these reports: first readings, second readings, assent procedures and consultation procedures.

Mr President, as the rapporteur on Bulgaria, I would be very much against any delay in the assent procedure.

We hope that in future we too in the European Parliament will be able to take advantage of this enlarged assent procedure.

The consent procedure (formerly assent procedure) is one of the special legislative procedures of the European Union.

The assent procedure for Cariforum States and Côte d'Ivoire is crucial to realising the potential of these reforms.

We must, according to the assent procedure, give an opinion on the agreement linking our Union with the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia in the transportation field.

In conclusion I should like to say this: Parliament must be consulted according to the assent procedure whenever agreements concerning the World Trade Organization are involved.

Its role in the adoption of this package composed of over 50 proposals will be essential, as it will have to be adopted by the codecision or assent procedures.

The Council understood in its proposal that this agreement has important budgetary implications for the Union. It therefore decided to consult Parliament by means of the assent procedure.