EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP

It is a tool that allows direct citizen participation in the European legislation elaboration.

The European Citizens’ Initiative is an invitation to the European Commission to suggest a legislative text in any of the EU fields of competence. The citizen initiatives must be supported by at least a million citizens from seven of the twenty-seven EU member states, where a minimum number of signers must be reached.

The regulations and proceedings by which the European Citizens’ Initiative is regulated are established in the Regulation (EU) No 211/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 on the citizens’ initiative, as well as in its recent incorporation to the Treaty of Lisbon in section 11.4.