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  Orders of the Day - Clause 4 - Increase of powers of European Parliament
  
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  <p>The Aye-voters successfully carried the motion that <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/glossary/?gl=98">clause</a> 4 of the <a href="http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2007-08/europeanunionamendment.html">European Union (Amendment) Bill</a> stand as part of the <a href=" http://www.theyworkforyou.com/glossary/?gl=249">Bill</a>.</p>
  
  <p>This was a particularly important clause as it legitimised the increase powers of the European Parliament under the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_lisbon">Treaty of Lisbon</a> by referencing the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliamentary_Elections_Act_2002">European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002</a> which required that:
  
  <blockquote>"No treaty which provides for any increase in the powers of the European Parliament is to be ratified by the United Kingdom unless it has been approved by an Act of Parliament."</blockquote>
  
  <p>The No-voters by and large conceded this point but argued that the Government had not spelled out what increased powers the European Parliament would get under the Lisbon Treaty and that there was no chance to debate them because of "the way in which the Government have rigged the debate on the treaty, time and again." In the event, this was a moot point because there was no time left for the debate and</p> 
  
  <p pid="c.1557.1/2"><i> The Committee divided:</i> Ayes 324, Noes 152.</p>
  
  
  
  
  
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