5. Notes that when the Lisbon Treaty established the European Council as an institution its tasks were defined in Article 15 TEU as ‘to provide the Union with the necessary impetus for its development and to define the general political directions and priorities’, explicitly excluding the exercise of legislative functions; points out that the European Council has intervened in the legislative procedure by deciding to remove specific elements from texts already agreed by Parliament and the Council; recalls in this connection the de facto deletion of Articles 6 to 8 of the agreed text on the proposal for a regulation on a European patent ...[+++] with unitary effect and considers such interventions by the European Council to be illegitimate;

These are the elements of the vehicle unit according to Annex IB. Their inclusion in the text of the Regulation improves the clarity and comprehension of the text of the Regulation.

– (DE) Mr President, I propose that we should adopt Amendment 29, but also incorporate an element from the original text, so that it would end up – as an addition to the Socialist amendment – reading: ‘which make up the European identity’ as a combination of both drafts.

We have voted for the report, keeping in mind that some elements of the text were not appropriate to be considered in this report, including some elements of EU citizenship, the positive stance on the constitution of the EU, election of some MEPs on the basis of transnational lists, the proposal on the European tax, etc.

The Canadian Constitution is made up of three elements: the constitutional texts, the courts' interpretation of these texts and finally, the conventions of the Constitution.

Quite frankly, there's no way we could support a piece of legislation that had anything other than that, and it would also be indefensible to the Canadian public.