Translation of "déclaration de désistement " (French → English) :

478.67 A leadership contestant who withdraws from the leadership contest shall file with the Chief Electoral Officer a statement in writing to that effect signed by the contestant and indicating the date of the withdrawal.

4. This is precisely the case with Mr Achille Occhetto. His withdrawal statement is the outcome of a will influenced by an earlier agreement with the other component of the Società civile DI PIETRO-OCCHETTO list and must therefore be deemed incompatible with the spirit and the letter of the 1976 Act and hence null and void.

It shall become devoid of purpose if the case is removed from the register of the Board of Appeal as a result of a party's discontinuance or withdrawal from the proceedings or of an amicable agreement between the parties, or where the notice of appeal is declared inadmissible.

The grounds for this decision (which took no account of Mr Achille Occhetto's statement of withdrawal) were that, 'unlike what occurred in the case of the first constituency (Italy North-West), Mr Achille Occhetto's 7 July 2004 decision to withdraw as a candidate for election to the European Parliament has had no effect and must therefore be regarded as revocable, since it was taken before the start of the procedure to replace Mr Antonio Di Pietro with the candidate who comes immediately after him on the same list and in the fourth constituency (Italy South)'.

With regard to Mr Lamoureux’s statements, he says what the Treaty states, and, of course, the decision to set up a nuclear power plant or not or to opt out is up to the Member States; it is not up to the Commission and neither is it a Community decision.