1.   Elections for the European parliament are set for late next year.

2.   A proposal to restructure the transport tax system in favour of the environment is under discussion by the European parliament.

3.   The Socialist group in the European parliament has called for the EC to set more ambitious targets for reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

4.   Agreement was reached at the European council at Edinburgh in December nineteen ninety two that the European parliament should be enlarged by allocating additional seats to some member states.

5.   Article eight B two of the treaty related to elections to the European parliament which is the subject of the draft regulations presented here.

6.   The proposal on the European parliament sensibly recommends cons consistency of voting for the one election that we share with other members of the European community.

7.   It was in nineteen seventy seven that the European parliament first passed a resolution on voting rights in European elections.

8.   Article eight B two provides that citizens of the union shall have the right to vote and to stand as candidates in elections to the European parliament.

9.   The proposals demanding a common fair electoral system have been passed by the European parliament.

10.   The European parliament has a wide range of electorate per member and the electoral quota would not be extraordinary were Cornwall to get its own seat.