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In dieser Community möchten wir die Reichweite wichtiger Petitionen und Bürgerinitiativen erhöhen.

Bei jeder geteilten Petition nenne im Titel:

die Plattform,
den Titel und
das Enddatum (falls bekannt).

Unser Fokus liegt auf offiziellen Petitionen, Volksbegehren und Volksentscheiden, die tatsächlich eingereicht oder umgesetzt werden können.

In this community, we want to increase the reach of important petitions and citizens' initiatives.

For each petition you share, please include the following in the title:

the platform,
the title, and
the end date (if known).

Our focus is on official petitions, referendums, and initiatives that can actually be submitted or implemented.

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Submitting an EU petition (infosec.pub)

submitted 3 months ago by MrFloppy@feddit.org to c/petition@feddit.org

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Some time ago, I looked into EU petitions and discovered that it is very easy to submit one.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/petitions/en/home

In this post, I describe how my first EU petition went. There is a numbered comment for each step. This is the translated post in English, as this is more practical in terms of language tagging.

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[–] MrFloppy@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago

#Chapter 1

There are currently two ways to submit an EU petition:

By letter: As someone who prefers to register as little as possible, I think this is a great option. The only slight disadvantage is that you cannot check the status.

Online: You do have to register for this, but it's really very straightforward. No ID verification or anything else. It's as easy as registering with Lemmy, and I can only urge everyone in this community to register there.

I opted for the online version so that I could be notified of the progress by email.

After registering, you have to confirm the process with a registration email and then you're ready to go.

You can change the homepage to your local language. I only noticed this after step 2 was complete, which would have saved me a lot of translation time.

Step 1 First, you are shown an overview of what you can and cannot submit a petition for.

Step 2 To submit a petition, you must answer eight questions with yes or no. Only if the correct selection has been made can you continue. (This hurdle does not apply when submitting by letter.)

Here are the eight questions and the corresponding answers:

Yes - Does the subject of your concern fall clearly within the field of activity of the European Union…?
Yes - Are you a citizen or resident of the European Union, acting personally or on behalf … in an EU Member State?
No - Are you petitioning the European Parliament because you disagree with a decision…?
No - Do you wish to create or lend your support to a European Citizens’ Initiative…?
No - Does the issue you wish to raise concern a possible case of maladministration … which affects you personally?
No - Does the issue of concern deal with cross-border problems caused by a potential breach of EU law…?
No - Are you seeking information about the European Parliament or do you wish to communicate…?
Yes - Does the issue of concern relate to the way in which EU legislation is possibly being wrongly implemented…?

Step 3 After answering these questions, you can submit your petition and upload attachments. Since all formatting is removed from the text, I uploaded the formatted text again as a PDF attachment.

Once the petition has been submitted, you will receive an email notification. When you log in to the site, the petition will appear, but no number will have been assigned yet. You will now have to wait a few days for this number to be assigned.