I still owe a constitutional text to the previous article dealing with the subject of the federal plebiscite, so it is here.
Federal plebiscite
Article 55 – Direct exercise of the
state power
1. The citizens of the European Union
exercise the direct state power by means of the federal plebiscite.
The decision is made in the form of the law or the international
treaty.
2. The laws and international
treaties adopted in the federal plebiscite are inscribed in the
Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 56 – Obligatory plebiscite
The federal plebiscite is obligatory
about
a) modification of the constitution
of the European Union,
b) laws expanding the constitution of
the European Union,
c) accession of the European Union to
an international organization or a military alliance,
d) adoption of an international
treaty or withdrawal of it,
e) adoption of a new member of the
Union,
f) a law about the status of the
federal territory.
Article 57 – Restriction of the
subject of voting
Restriction or abolition of
democratic public order and restriction or abolition of the rights in
the Chapter two of the Constitution of the Union, in particular
prohibition of death penalty, torture, slavery or other cruel
treatment may not be the subject of the federal plebiscite.
Article 58 – Organization of voting
1. The federal plebiscite is declared
if at least 0,78% of the citizens of the Union authorized to vote to
the House of People of the Assembly of the Union from at least eight
member states request it.
2. The Council of Chancellors
declares the date of the federal plebiscite being no more than 200
days after the day when the required number of the citizens
request it.
3. The request of the citizens of the
Union is not necessary to hold the federal plebiscite about the
matters enumerated in the article 56.
4. The Council of Chancellors may submit any
proposed law passed by the Assembly of the Union and submitted to
itself for the federal plebiscite.
5. The law stipulates details about
organization of the federal plebiscite.
Article 59 – Repeated voting
The matter rejected in the federal
plebiscite may not be submitted again to the people earlier than
after three years.
Subsection 1 – Federal plebiscite
about a proposed law
Article 60 – Subject of voting and
adoption of a law
1. Any legal arrangement of a matter
that comes under competence of the Union can be the subject of the
federal plebiscite about a proposed law. In one voting, more
different proposals of the same thing can be submitted.
2. Modification of the constitution
of the Union or a law expanding the constitution is adopted if at
least two thirds of involved voters and at the same time two thirds
of the member states vote in favour of it. Result of voting in the
member state counts as the vote of the state.
3. A law except of a law expanding
the constitution is adopted if the majority of involved voters and at
the same time the majority of the member states vote in favour of it.
Result of voting in the member state counts as the vote of the state.
Article 61 – Limits in adoption of
a law
1. The Assembly of the Union may not
repeal or modify a law adopted in the federal plebiscite.
2. A bill containing a matter
rejected in the federal plebiscite must not be introduced in the
Assembly of the Union for a period of
three years.
3. The law adopted in the federal
plebiscite must comply with conditions of paragraphs 10, 11, 12 of
the article 33.
Subsection 2 – Federal plebiscite
about an international treaty
Article 62 – Adoption of an
international treaty
1. After an international treaty is
submitted to the people a term of 200 day runs during which at least
50000 citizens of the Union authorized to vote to the House of the
People of the Assembly of the Union can submit proposals of the
change of the submitted international treaty. If such proposals are
submitted there is voting about more proposals of the international
treaty at the same time.
2. The international treaty is
adopted if a majority of involved voters and at the same time a
majority of the member states vote in favour of it. Result of voting
in the member state counts as the vote of the state.
3. An international treaty that
endangers democratic public order in the European Union or is
inconsistent with rights, freedoms and principles provided in the
chapter two of this constitution cannot be adopted.
4. Accession of the European Union to
an international organization or a military alliance must have the
form of an international treaty that contains all obligations and
right of the Union within the respective organization or alliance.
