Webinar 'Essential Skills for European Citizens' Initiative Organisers - The Basics'

This webinar builds on the ECI Forum's online course 'Essential Skills for European Citizens' Initiative Organisers'.

This webinar covered the following topics:

   - Understanding the areas of Commission competences and managing the registration process

   - Practical aspects of the ECI and what the ECI Forum is.

   - Campaigning for a European Citizens' Initiative - what has worked well, what needs to be improved.

   - Support Networks, Fundraising and Advocacy – how to reach 1 million signatures.

In this webinar, you will find answers to the following questions:

1. Is an ECI targeting a change of Article 128 of TFEU something which falls within the framework of the Commission’s power?

2. If the text of ECI consists of more than one demand and one of them does not fall under the framework of the Commission’s power, can the Commission reject the whole ECI or reject only this certain demand and accept the rest of the demands?

3. Is it possible in the course of the signature collection period to adjust the petition e.g.: - by changing wording or by adding new demands?

4. What happens if a voter signs more than once an ECI? This can happen if e.g. she/he forgets what he did months ago. Are all the signatures of this person invalid, or is at least only one vote counted? One vote counts

5. How is it ensured that person A cannot vote for Person B?

6. It is very difficult to gather 1 million signatures, so every vote is very precious. And we know that in every ECI more than 5% or even 10% are declared invalid? Why does this happen, and what can an ECI organiser do to reduce the number of invalid signatures?

7. How many initiatives have become laws at the end of the collection of signatures?

Language: EN 

If you missed the webinar, check the video recording (available in English)