Translation of "d'entrée du siège " (French → English) :

A formal sitting has taken place today at the seat of the Court of Justice on the occasion of the taking of the oath and the entry into office of the new Judges.

1. For the period of the 2009-2014 parliamentary term remaining at the date of entry into force of this Article, and by way of derogation from Articles 189, second paragraph, and 190(2) of the Treaty establishing the European Community and Articles 107, second paragraph, and 108(2) of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, which were in force at the time of the European Parliament elections in June 2009, and by way of derogation from the number of seats provided for in the first subparagraph of Article 14(2) of the Treaty on European Union, the following 18 seats shall be added to the existing 736 seats, thus provi ...[+++]sionally bringing the total number of members of the European Parliament to 754 until the end of the 2009-2014 parliamentary term:

1. For the period of the 2009-2014 parliamentary term remaining at the date of entry into force of this Article, and by way of derogation from Articles 189, second paragraph, and 190(2) of the Treaty establishing the European Community and Articles 107, second paragraph, and 108(2) of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, which were in force at the time of the European Parliament elections in June 2009, and by way of derogation from the number of seats provided for in the first subparagraph of Article 14(2) of the Treaty on European Union, the following 18 seats shall be added to the existing 736 seats, thus provi ...[+++]sionally bringing the total number of members of the European Parliament to 754 until the end of the 2009-2014 parliamentary term:

Other changes include the six Senate seats assigned to Newfoundland and Labrador upon its entry into our federation in 1949, along with the addition of two seats to the Northwest Territories and Yukon in 1975, and one seat for the newly created territory of Nunavut in 1999.

The European Union, which has actively contributed to the drafting, development and entry into force of the Rome Statute, reaffirms its commitment to support the early operation of the International Criminal Court in its seat at The Hague.

Should the assigned number of seats for a given province derived either through rule 1 or by the application of section 51A of the Constitution Act, 1867 (also known as the “senatorial clause”) be lower than the number of seats assigned to that province on the date of the coming into force of the Constitution Act, 1985 (Representation), a corresponding number of members will be added to bridge the difference produced by a readjustment.