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European Citizens Initiative - Consultation Green Paper published.
Commission has opened a broad public consultation to seek the views of all interested parties on how the citizens' initiative should work in practice.
The Lisbon Treaty introduces a new form of public participation in
European Union policy shaping, the European citizens’ initiative, which
enables one million citizens who are nationals of a significant number
of Member States to call directly on the European Commission to bring
forward an initiative of interest to them in an area of EU competence.
Before citizens can start exercising this new right, a few ground rules
and procedures have to be laid down in an EU regulation.
Given the importance of this new tool for citizens, civil society and
stakeholders across the EU, the Commission has opened a broad
public consultation in order to seek the views of all
interested parties on how the citizens' initiative should work in
practice.
The Green Paper, which launches this consultation,
gives an overview of the legal, administrative and practical issues
that will need to be addressed by the Regulation and asks a number of
questions to which interested parties are invited to respond by
31st January 2010.
See http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/secretariat_general/citizens_initiative/index_en.htm
ePart10 - eParticipation Conference, 29Aug10, Lausanne
