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Seanad Éireann debate -
Thursday, 26 Jul 1973

Vol. 75 No. 8

Private Business. - Joint Committee on the Secondary Legislation of the European Communities: Motion.

I move:

(1) That a Select Committee consisting of those members of Seanad Éireann who are for the time being delegates to the Assembly of the European Communities and six other members who shall be nominated by the Committee of Selection be appointed to be joined with a Select Committee appointed by Dáil Éireann to form the Joint Committee on the Secondary Legislation of the European Communities.

(2) That the Joint Committee shall examine—

(i) such drafts, prepared by the Commission of the European Communities and submitted to the Council of those Communities, of regulations, directives, decisions, recommendations, and opinions, of the Council,

(ii) such acts of the institutions of those Communities,

(iii) such regulations under the European Communities Act, 1972 (No. 27 of 1972), and

(iv) such other instruments made under statute and necessitated by the obligations of membership of those Communities,

as it may select and shall report thereon to both Houses of the Oireachtas.

(3) That five members of the Joint Committee shall form a quorum of whom at least one shall be a member of Dáil Éireann and at least one shall be a member of Seanad Éireann.

Question put and agreed to.
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