Traduction de «élection à la proportionnelle » (Français → Anglais) :

In addition, once this margin is exceeded, in order to modulate the financial impact in proportion to the delay incurred in payment, provision should be made for the Commission to to proportionally reduce the Union payments according to the length of delay in payment recorded.

When considering the policy on variable remuneration a distinction should be made between fixed remuneration, which includes payments, proportionate regular pension contributions, or benefits (where such benefits are without consideration of any performance criteria), and variable remuneration, which includes additional payments, or benefits depending on performance or, in exceptional circumstances, other contractual elements but not those which form part of routine employment packages (such as healthcare, child care facilities or proportionate regular pension contributions).

European elections are regulated by the 1976 Act[1] on the election of the members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage, as amended by Council Decision 2002/772/EC, Euratom[2], which lays down some common principles for all Member States, such as the obligation to use proportional representation and to ensure that polling day falls within the same period starting on a Thursday and ending on the following Sunday.

However, it will certainly help, judging from international experience, where countries using variations on proportional representation have slightly higher voter turnouts than those using Canadian style, first past the post systems (1350) Opponents of proportional representation argue that it encourages the creation of small parties and makes it very hard to elect a majority government.

The House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Nystrom (Regina Qu'Appelle), seconded by Mr. Stoffer (Sackville Musquodoboit Valley Eastern Shore), That, in the opinion of this House, the government should work towards incorporating a measure of proportional representation in the federal electoral system, making use of a framework which includes: (a) a report on proportional representation prepared by an all-party committee after extensive public hearings; (b) a referendum to be held on this issue where the question shall be whether electors favour replacing the present system with a system proposed by the committee as concurred in ...[+++] by the House; and (c) the referendum may be held either before or at the same time as the next general election; (Private Members' Business M-155) And of the amendment of Ms. Dalphond-Guiral (Laval Centre), seconded by Mr. Crête (Kamouraska Rivière-du-Loup- -Témiscouata Les Basques), That the motion be amended by adding after the word ``representation'' everywhere it appears in the motion, the following:

Democracy Watch has a slightly different model in the sense that we think that the ability to spend in an election should be linked to the popular support that an organization has.