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Report Stage Proceedings: 29 November 2013              

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European Union (Referendum) Bill, continued

 
 

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The Speaker’s Committee shall consist of the Speaker of the House of

 

Commons, who shall be the chair of the Committee, and the following other

 

members, namely—

 

(a)    

the Member of the House of Commons who is for the time being the

 

Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee of the House of

 

Commons;

 

(b)    

the Lord President of the Council;

 

(c)    

a Member of the House of Commons who is a Minister of the Crown

 

with responsibilities in relation to foreign affairs; and

 

(d)    

five Members of the House of Commons who are not Ministers of the

 

Crown.

 

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The member of the Committee specified in subsection (2)(c) shall be appointed

 

to membership of the Committee by the Prime Minister.

 

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The members of the Committee specified in subsection (2)(d) shall be

 

appointed to membership of the Committee by the Speaker of the House of

 

Commons.

 

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The Speaker’s Committee shall make a report to the House of Commons on the

 

exercise by the Committee of their functions.’.

 

 

Mr William Bain

 

Mr Peter Hain

 

Not called  NS2

 

To move the following Schedule:—

 

“Organisations to be consulted before a referendum on the United

 

Kingdom’s membership of the European Union

 

         

The following organisations shall be consulted before a referendum on the

 

United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union is held—

 

(a)    

the Confederation for British Industry,

 

(b)    

the National Farmers Union,

 

(c)    

the Trades Union Congress,

 

(d)    

the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux,

 

(e)    

the Association of Chief Police Officers,

 

(f)    

Universities UK,

 

(g)    

the National Council of Voluntary Organisations,

 

(h)    

Friends of the Earth,

 

(i)    

the Local Government Association, and

 

(j)    

other organisations as the Secretary of State shall see fit.’.

 

 
 

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European Union (Referendum) Bill, continued

 
 

Mr William Bain

 

Not selected  NS3

 

To move the following Schedule:—

 

‘Transfer of powers

 

1          

Subject to section 1(a), a “transfer of power” involves one or more of the

 

following—

 

(a)    

the extension of the objectives of the EU as set out in Article 3 of the

 

Treaty on European Union;

 

(b)    

the conferring on the EU of a new exclusive competence;

 

(c)    

the extension of an exclusive competence of the EU;

 

(d)    

the conferring on the EU of a new competence shared with the member

 

states;

 

(e)    

the extension of any competence of the EU that is shared with the

 

member states;

 

(f)    

the extension of the competence of the EU in relation to—

 

(i)    

the co-ordination of economic and employment policies, or

 

(ii)    

common foreign and security policy;

 

(g)    

the conferring on the EU of a new competence to carry out actions to

 

support, co-ordinate or supplement the actions of member states;

 

(h)    

the extension of a supporting, co-ordinating or supplementing

 

competence of the EU;

 

(i)    

the conferring on an EU institution or body of power to impose a

 

requirement or obligation on the United Kingdom, or the removal of

 

any limitation on any such power of an EU institution or body;

 

(j)    

the conferring on an EU institution or body of new or extended power

 

to impose sanctions on the United Kingdom;

 

(k)    

any amendment of a provision listed in Schedule 1 that removes a

 

requirement that anything should be done unanimously, by consensus

 

or by common accord;

 

(l)    

any amendment of Article 31(2) of the Treaty on European Union

 

(decisions relating to common foreign and security policy to which

 

qualified majority voting applies) that removes or amends the

 

provisions enabling a member of the Council to oppose the adoption

 

of a decision to be taken by qualified majority voting;

 

(m)    

any amendment of any of the provisions specified in paragraph 3 that

 

removes or amends the provision enabling a member of the Council,

 

in relation to a draft legislative act, to ensure the suspension of the

 

ordinary legislative procedure.

 

2          

A transfer of power also includes a reference to the removal of a limitation on

 

a competence.

 

3          

The provisions referred to in paragraph 1(m) are—

 

(a)    

Article 48 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union

 

(social security),

 

(b)    

Article 82(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union

 

(judicial co-operation in criminal matters), and

 

(c)    

Article 83(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union

 

(particularly serious crime with a cross-border dimension).

 

4          

A treaty or Article 48(6) decision does not fall within this section merely

 

because it involves one or more of the following—

 
 

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European Union (Referendum) Bill, continued

 
 

(a)    

the codification of practice under the Treaty on European Union or the

 

Treaty on the functioning of the European Union in relation to the

 

previous exercise of an existing competence;

 

(b)    

the making of any provision that applies only to member states other

 

than the United Kingdom;

 

(c)    

in the case of a treaty, the accession of a new member state.’.

 

 

James Wharton

 

Andrew Rosindell

 

Agreed to  82

 

Title,  line  1,  after ‘Kingdom’, insert ‘and Gibraltar’.

 

Bill read the third time, and passed.

 

 
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