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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2009-937/annex/annex-IV",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2009/937",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 1 December 2009 adopting the Council's Rules of Procedure (2009/937/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2009-937",
  "path": "annex/annex/IV",
  "kind": "appendix",
  "number": "ANNEX IV",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Referred to in Article 16\n1.\nIn application of the following provisions of these Rules of Procedure and for decisions in respect of which, under the Treaties, one or several members of the Council or of Coreper may not participate in the vote, account is not to be taken of votes by such member(s):\n(a) Article 1(3), second subparagraph (holding of a meeting in a place other than Brussels or Luxembourg);\n(b) Article 3(7) (inclusion on the agenda of an item other than those appearing on the provisional agenda);\n(c) Article 3(8) (maintaining as a B item on the agenda an A item which would otherwise have had to be withdrawn from the agenda);\n(d) Article 5(2), as regards the presence of the European Central Bank only (deliberation without the presence of the European Central Bank);\n(e) Article 9(2), first subparagraph, point (b), and second and third subparagraphs (making public the results of votes, explanations of votes, statements in the Council minutes and items in those minutes relating to cases other than those referred to in paragraph 1);\n(f) Article 11(1), second subparagraph (opening of a voting procedure);\n(g) Article 12(1) (use of the written procedure);\n(h) Article 14(1) (decision to deliberate and take decisions exceptionally on the basis of documents and drafts not drawn up in all the languages);\n(i) Article 17(2)(a) (non-publication in the Official Journal of an initiative presented by a Member State pursuant to Article 76 of the TFEU);\n(j) Article 17(2)(b) (non-publication in the Official Journal of certain directives, decisions, recommendations and opinions);\n(k) Article 17(5) (whether to publish in the Official Journal decisions taken by a body set up under an international agreement).\n2.\nA member of the Council or of Coreper may not make use of the following provisions of these Rules of Procedure in connection with decisions on which, under the Treaties, that member may not participate in the vote:\n(a) Article 3(8) (possibility of a member of the Council requesting withdrawal of an A item from the agenda);\n(b) Article 11(1), second subparagraph (possibility of a member of the Council requesting the opening of a voting procedure);\n(c) Article 11(3) (possibility of a member of the Council acting on behalf of another in a vote);\n(d) Article 14(2) (possibility for any member of the Council to oppose discussion if the texts of any proposed amendments are not drawn up in the language he or she has specified).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See statement (n) set out below: (n) Re Annex IV, paragraph 1(h): The Council confirms that present practice whereby the texts serving as a basis for its deliberations are drawn up in all the languages will continue to apply."
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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