Amendments to Parliament’s Rules of Procedure concerning the declaration of input (Article 8 of Annex I to the Rules of Procedure)

The European Parliament decided, by 653 votes to 0, with 15 abstentions, to make the following amendment to its Rules of Procedure:

Annex I - Article 8 Declaration of input

“Without prejudice to the requirement to publish meetings pursuant to Article 7, rapporteurs shall list, in an annex to their report or opinion, the interest representatives falling within the scope of the Interinstitutional Agreement on a mandatory transparency register, and the representatives of public authorities of third countries, including their diplomatic missions and embassies, from whom they received input on matters pertaining to the subject of the file that the rapporteurs included in their report or opinion.

Article 7(4) shall apply mutatis mutandis.”