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  European Union (Amendment) Bill
  
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  <p>Those voting Content failed to carry an <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/glossary/?gl=114">amendment</a> to <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/glossary/?gl=98">clause</a> 6 of the <a href="http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2007-08/europeanunionamendment.html">European Union (Amendment) Bill</a> that would ensure that under the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_lisbon">Treaty of Lisbon</a>:</p>
  
  <blockquote>"A Minister of the Crown may not commit the United Kingdom to new obligations, or alter the obligations of the United Kingdom... unless Parliamentary approval has been given...</blockquote>
  
  <p pid="a.398.2/2" pwmotiontext="divided">Their Lordships divided: Contents, 196; Not-Contents, 227.</p>
  
  
  
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