compulsory voting

land diversion program [ paid land diversion program | crop diversion program ]

special negotiable instrument for optional use in international transactions

OPCAT Special Fund | Special Fund of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture

Facultative parasite

snap vote [ surprise vote ]

majority voting

counting of votes [ counting of ballots | count of the votes | counting of the votes | counting the votes | counting of the ballots | counting | count | reporting of votes | summing up of votes ]

19. Regrets that more than 20 years after the adoption of the Vienna Declaration on the universality and indivisibility as well as the interdependence and interrelated nature of all human rights, that the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) is not treated by the EU and its Member States on the same footing and with the same emphasis as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights as demonstrated by EU voting behaviour in the UNHRC; recognises the UNHRC’s efforts to put all human rights on an equal footing and with the same emphasis, through the establishment of Special Procedure mandate ho ...[+++]lders related to economic, social and cultural rights; insists that particular efforts should be made, including by the EU Member States, to secure wide ratification of the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR establishing complaint and inquiry mechanisms;

I wish to remind the committee that electronic voting would be optional and that it would not replace our existing system.

On 8 June 2011, the European Parliament backed an optional European contract law in a plenary vote on an own-initiative report by MEP Diana Wallis (MEMO/11/236).

– (EL) The Greek Communist Party did not vote for the report on the conclusion, by the EU, of the UN Convention and Protocol on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, because it considers that the EU is not entitled to sign and ratify such agreements with the UN on behalf of the 27 Member States.