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455138

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date	25/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	EU Countries: Nationality
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the judgment of the European Court of Justice in <i>Rottmann v Freistaat Bayern </i>(Case C-135/08) that a decision by an EU member state to deprive a person of national citizenship cannot result automatically from the fact that the person in question acquired that status by deception, in particular in the light of Section A of the Decision of the Heads of State or Government, meeting within the European Council, concerning issues raised by Denmark regarding the Treaty on European Union (<i>Official Journal</i> C348/1, 31/12/92).
tabling member printed	Lord Hamilton of Epsom
uin	HL6443
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2016 answer text <p>The European Court of Justice confirmed in the case of Rottmann that it was required to take into account the Edinburgh Decision of 1992 when interpreting the EU Treaties. On the facts of the case, the Court found that the decision to deprive the applicant of German nationality had to comply with the EU principle of proportionality. The Court considered that this conclusion was consistent with the Edinburgh Decision.</p><p>In its application of this judgment, the UK Court of Appeal confirmed in the case of G1 that Member States retain competence over the acquisition and loss of citizenship and the principle in Rottmann only applies if EU law is engaged on the particular facts of each case.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 10/03/2016 15:30:27 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	100 label Biography information for Lord Hamilton of Epsom

455139

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date	25/02/2016
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	UK Membership of EU
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Decision of the Heads of State or Government, meeting within the European Council, concerning a new settlement for the UK within the EU returns to the UK Parliament any competences that are presently conferred on the EU by Title 1 of Part One of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
tabling member printed	Lord Hamilton of Epsom
uin	HL6444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2016 answer text <p>The deal agreed at the February European Council delivers a binding commitment that the Treaties will be changed in the future so that the UK is carved out of ‘ever closer union’. It ensures that the UK will not be liable for eurozone bailouts or discriminated against in the Single Market, and that the Treaties will be changed to reflect that. It establishes a new mechanism for the European Council to review EU legislation every year to see what can be done better at the national level and what can be dropped altogether. It ensures that Parliament will be able, acting with others in Europe, to block unwanted new EU laws. The deal also secures new powers to tackle the abuse of free movement and reduce the unnatural draw of our benefits system, to meet our aim of reducing immigration, by creating fairer rules, while protecting our open economy.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 14/03/2016 12:28:13 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	100 label Biography information for Lord Hamilton of Epsom

455140

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	UK Membership of EU
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether a decision under Article 9 of Protocol (No 15) to the EU Treaties would require approval (1) by an Act of Parliament, and (2) by a referendum.
tabling member printed	Lord Hamilton of Epsom
uin	HL6445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2016 answer text <p>Under the EU Act 2011, a decision by the UK under Protocol (No 15) leading to a decision by the Council under article 140 (3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union would require an Act of Parliament and a referendum result in favour before a Minister of the Crown could support it.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 10/03/2016 15:37:30 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	100 label Biography information for Lord Hamilton of Epsom