Traduction de «Bulletin de vote de vérification au deuxième niveau » (Français → Anglais) :

Political parties at national level should boost transparency about the European parties they are affiliated to, for example by using their logos in campaign and ballot material.

The second part of the meeting dealt with administrative topics, and all the issues concerning annual reports, first experiences of programme management, data exchange and audit reports were discussed by the managing authorities for Objective 1 and 2 with the responsible bodies at national level.

There were a number of credible allegations of vote buying..’. whereas there were reports of serious tensions at some district elections commissions, where armed members of a volunteer battalion were present around and inside; whereas the Ukrainian ‘Civil Network OPORA’ and the ‘Committee of Voters of Ukraine’ frequently reported several violations at polling stations, including ‘attempts to give ballots without passport verification, presence of unauthorised persons at polling stations, atte ...[+++]mpts of illegitimate voting, attempts to remove a ballot from a polling station, violation of voting secrecy, photographing a ballot paper as well as attempts of ballot box stuffing’; whereas the OSCE nevertheless concluded that that the ‘26 October early parliamentary elections marked an important step in Ukraine’s aspirations to consolidate democratic elections in line with its international commitments’;

changing the voting rules at the last stage of the comitology procedure (the Appeal Committee), so that only votes in favour or against an act are taken into account; this will reduce the use of abstentions and the number of situations where the Committee is unable to take a position and the Commission is obliged to act without a clear mandate from the Member States; involving national Ministers by allowing the Commission to make a second referral to the Appeal Committee at Ministerial level if national experts do not take a position; this will ensure that sensitive decisions are discussed at the appropriate political level; increasi ...[+++]ng voting transparency at the Appeal Committee level by making public the votes of Member State representatives; ensuring political input by enabling the Commission to refer the matter to the Council of Ministers for an Opinion if the Appeal Committee is unable to take a position.