Proposed Ec Committee Of The Regions

EDM number 91 in 1992-93, proposed by Mike Hall on 19/05/1992.

That this House welcomes the original wording and intention of the proposed Article 198A of the Treaty signed in Maastricht which establishes a new Committee of the Regions of representatives of regional and local authorities to act as an advisory but formal consultation mechanism between local government in Europe and the Commission and the Council of Ministers; and therefore calls upon the Government to respect the original intentions of Article 198A by ensuring that the Committee is composed of service members of United Kingdom local authorities and is representative of the political balance in local government in the United Kingdom in order to establish a further channel of democratic input in the affairs of the European Community.

This motion has been signed by a total of 56 MPs.