The European Parliament is composed of representatives of the Union’s citizens,

the number of which cannot exceed 750 r, plus the President. Representation of
citizens is degressively proportional, with a minimum threshold of six members
per Member State. No Member State shall be allocated more than ninety-six seats.

The European Council shall adopt by unanimity, on the initiative of the European
Parliament and with its consent, a decision establishing the composition of the
European Parliament,

The Parliament’s term is five years, like that of the Commission. Citizens of the
EU resident in any Member State gained the right to vote and to stand as
candidates in European Parliament elections.

MEPs sit according to political grouping, rather than nationality.

The Parliament elects its own President, together with fourteen Vice-Presidents,
for two-and-a-half-year terms, and collectively they form the Bureau of
Parliament.1

The Parliament has standing committees on matters including foreign affairs;

human rights; security and defence; development; international trade; budgets;
budgetary control; economic and monetary affairs; employment and social affairs;
environment, public health and food safety; industry, research and energy; internal
market and consumer protection; transport and tourism; regional development;
agriculture and rural development; fisheries; culture and education; legal affairs;
civil liberties, justice and home affairs; constitutional affairs; women’s rights and
gender equality; and petitions. Sub-committees and temporary committees or
committees of inquiry can also be established

The members of the European Parliament shall be elected for a term of five years
by direct universal suffrage in a free and secret ballot.

4. The European Parliament shall elect its President and its officers from among
its members.

Legislative Power
jointly with the Council, exercise legislative and budgetary functions. There are in
addition certain areas where the assent of the EP is required for legislation. The EP
now has a veto power over delegated acts

(ii) Dismissal and Appointment Power

The EP has always had the power to censure the Commission and require its
resignation
(iii) Supervisory Power
The EP monitors the activities of the other institutions, principally the
Commission, through questions and committees of inquiry.

(iv)p. 88 Budgetary Power

The EP also has important powers in relation to the budget. It used its power over
the budget to pressure for more general changes in the inter-institutional allocation
of power, and conflicts not infrequently ended up in the Court.1

227 TFEU
Any citizen of the Union, and any natural or legal person residing or having its
registered office in a Member State, shall have the right to address, individually or
in association with other citizens or persons, a petition to the European Parliament
on a matter which comes within the Union's fields of activity and which affects
him, her or it directly.

Article 255

A panel shall be set up in order to give an opinion on candidates' suitability to

perform the duties of Judge and Advocate-General of the Court of Justice and the
General Court before the governments of the Member States make the
appointments referred to in Articles 253 and 254.

The panel shall comprise seven persons chosen from among former members of
the Court of Justice and the General Court, members of national supreme courts
and lawyers of recognised competence, one of whom shall be proposed by the
European Parliament. The Council shall adopt a decision establishing the panel's
operating rules and a decision appointing its members. It shall act on the initiative
of the President of the Court of Justice.

Article 234
If a motion of censure on the activities of the Commission is tabled before it, the
European Parliament shall not vote thereon until at least three days after the
motion has been tabled and only by open vote.

If the motion of censure is carried by a two-thirds majority of the votes cast,

representing a majority of the component Members of the European Parliament,
the members of the Commission shall resign as a body and the High
Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy shall resign
from duties that he or she carries out in the Commission. They shall remain in
office and continue to deal with current business until they are replaced in
accordance with Article 17 of the Treaty on European Union. In this case, the term
of office of the members of the Commission appointed to replace them shall expire
on the date on which the term of office of the members of the Commission obliged
to resign as a body would have expired.