d'Hondt method [ d'Hondt formula | largest average formula | d'Hondt rule | highest-average rule ]

d'Hondt method | d'Hondt system

allocation of seats [ D'Hondt method | distribution of seats | Hagenbach-Bischoff method | Imperiali method ]

Definition: Symptoms are presented by the patient as if they were due to a physical disorder of a system or organ that is largely or completely under autonomic innervation and control, i.e. the cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, respiratory and urogenital systems. The symptoms are usually of two types, neither of which indicates a physical disorder of the organ or system concerned. First, there are complaints based upon objective signs of autonomic arousal, such as palpitations, sweating, flushing, tremor, and expression of fear and distress about the possibility of a physical disorder. Second, there are subjective complaints of a nonspec ...[+++]ific or changing nature such as fleeting aches and pains, sensations of burning, heaviness, tightness, and feelings of being bloated or distended, which are referred by the patient to a specific organ or system. | Cardiac neurosis Da Costa's syndrome Gastric neurosis Neurocirculatory asthenia Psychogenic forms of:aerophagy | cough | diarrhoea | dyspepsia | dysuria | flatulence | hiccough | hyperventilation | increased frequency of micturition | irritable bowel syndrome | pylorospasm

payment system [ clearing and settlement system | EFTS | electronic funds transfer system | FTS | funds transfer system | IFTS | interbank funds transfer system | payment and settlement system | securities settlement system | electronic funds transfer(UNBIS) ]

European accounting system [ ESA | European system of accounts | European system of integrated economic accounts | European system of national and regional accounts | European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union ]

expert system shell | skeletal knowledge engineering language | skeletal system

ABS brakes | ABS system | antilock brake system | Anti-Lock Brake System | Anti-lock braking system | Brakes - Antilock | ABS [Abbr.]

International System of Units [ SI | International System | SI system | metric system ]

multi-user operating system [ multiuser operating system | multi-user system | multiuser system | multi-access system ]

The amendment, according to which each Member State would have six seats as from 2014 and that the rest of the seats in Parliament should be allocated in accordance with the d'Hondt system, will completely destroy the current system of degressive proportionality, which is the best way of guaranteeing objective decision-making in the Union.

We could simply have one major seat, cut the travelling circus, introduce vivid debates, vote on major issues and change the D’Hondt system into a fairer system to avoid discrimination against smaller delegations in the big groups, against the smaller groups and against the independents.

I see this as an important concept, and so I would like to start with the situation of the Unattached Members, the 33 truly second-class Members who do not have access to the d’Hondt system which is used to distribute everything in this House, who are not entitled to table documents or amendments and who are forced to admit even to their electorate that they are unable to play a full part in the Parliament’s work.

The d'Hondt method is an example of the method of divisors (it is based on the series of divisors 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., until the seats to be filled have all been distributed. It was in 1882 that Victor d'Hondt, a professor of law at the University of Ghent, presented a system for allocating seats to different political groups in Belgium, thus permitting proportional representation. The method had a great future ahead of it, because many Member States of the European Union now use it, in both national and European elections, to distribute seats among the diff ...[+++]erent lists/candidates standing.