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  Orders of the Day - Clause 6 - Parliamentary control of decisions
  
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  This amendment was defeated.  It would have amended the <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmbills/048/2008048.pdf">Bill</a> to ratify the <a href="http://www.fco.gov.uk/Files/kfile/TREATY%20FINAL%20TEXT.pdf">Lisbon treaty</a> by inserting the following text at the beginning of section 6 "Parliamentary control of decisions": 
  
  <blockquote>'(A1) The Prime Minister may not attend a meeting of the European Council without having laid before Parliament a statement on their negotiating mandate and receiving Parliamentary approval in accordance with this section.</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(A2) A Minister of the Crown may not attend a meeting of any configuration of the Council (within the meaning of Article 9C of the Treaty on European Union) without having laid before Parliament a statement on their negotiating mandate and receiving Parliamentary approval in accordance with this section.</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(A3) A Minister of the Crown may not vote in favour of or otherwise support any legislative measure under any article of the Treaty on European Union or the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union that relates to the internal market, if it applies to, or could be applied in relation to, any of the following, unless Parliamentary approval has been given in accordance with this section:</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(a) health services provided by any NHS body,</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(b) the statutory system of public education,</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(c) social housing,</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(d) postal services,</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(e) public transport.</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(A4) A Minister of the Crown may not vote either in favour of or against or otherwise support or oppose any legislative measure under Article 153 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, unless Parliamentary approval has been given in accordance with this section.</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(A5) A Minister of the Crown may not authorise any person to represent the United Kingdom at a meeting of the special committee to assist the Commission in negotiating agreements with international organisations or third countries established in Article 188C of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union without having laid before Parliament a statement on their negotiating mandate; and where any person represents the United Kingdom at such a meeting, the Secretary of State shall lay before Parliament a statement on the matters discussed at the meeting, the positions taken by all persons representing the United Kingdom and the outcomes of the meeting, within 30 days of the meeting taking place.'</blockquote>
  
  <p pid="a.1670.3/2"><i> The Committee divided:</i> Ayes 57, Noes 329.</p>
  
  
  
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