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House of Commons

Monday 3rd March 2008

Committee of the whole House

Proceedings

European Union (Amendment) Bill

[Ninth day]

Days 9 and 10

                        Clauses 3 to 7

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory

Mr Peter Bone

Mr William Cash

Mr Richard Shepherd

Negatived on division  39

Clause  3,  page  2,  leave out lines 12 and 13 and insert—

‘(c)
may be made only if a draft of the order has been—

(i)
laid before Parliament; and

(ii)
approved by a resolution of each House’.

Mr William Cash

Mr John Redwood

Mr Iain Duncan Smith

Mr Bernard Jenkin

Mr Richard Shepherd

Sir Nicholas Winterton

Negatived on division  55

Clause  3,  page  2,  line  14,  leave out subsection (6).

Mr William Cash

Mr John Redwood

Mr Iain Duncan Smith

Mr Bernard Jenkin

Mr Richard Shepherd

Sir Nicholas Winterton

Not called  56

Clause  3,  page  2,  line  14,  leave out ‘or instrument made under an Act’.

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European Union (Amendment) Bill, continued

Mr William Cash

Mr John Redwood

Mr Iain Duncan Smith

Mr Bernard Jenkin

Mr Richard Shepherd

Sir Nicholas Winterton

Not called  57

Clause  3,  page  2,  line  15,  leave out ‘or instrument’.

Clause Agreed to on division.

Schedule Agreed to.

Mr William Hague

Mr David Lidington

Mr Mark Francois

Mr David Evennett

Not selected  294

Clause  4,  page  2,  line  21,  after ‘powers)’, insert ‘provided that, one year after the

entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon and, for so long as such reports are laid annually

thereafter, Her Majesty’s Government lays before Parliament a report setting out the cases

in the preceding year where the position of the European Parliament and the Council

differed on a proposal, in a matter made subject to the procedure in Article 294 of the

Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (formerly Article 251 of the Treaty

establishing the European Community) by the Treaty of Lisbon.’.

Mr William Hague

Mr David Lidington

Mr Mark Francois

Mr David Evennett

Not selected  295

Clause  4,  page  2,  line  21,  at end insert ‘from the date upon which the European

Parliament takes a decision to have only one place of meeting in plenary session.’.

Mr William Cash

Mr John Redwood

Mr Iain Duncan Smith

Mr Bernard Jenkin

Mr Richard Shepherd

Sir Nicholas Winterton

Not selected  58

Page  2,  line  19,  leave out Clause 4.

Clause Agreed to on division.

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European Union (Amendment) Bill, continued

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory

Mr Peter Bone

Mr William Cash

Mr Richard Shepherd

Not selected  40

Clause  5,  page  2,  line  24,  after ‘Parliament’, insert ‘and endorsed in a national

referendum’.

Mr William Cash

Mr John Redwood

Mr Iain Duncan Smith

Mr Bernard Jenkin

Mr Richard Shepherd

Sir Nicholas Winterton

Not selected  59

Clause  5,  page  2,  line  37,  at end add—

‘(4)
Condition 3 is that where the treaty proposes to confer further competences on the

European Union requiring amendment of United Kingdom law or governance of

the United Kingdom in any material respect, that treaty shall be submitted to a

referendum as if it were a referendum under this Act.’.

Clause Agreed to.

Progress reported.