European Citizens’ Initiative

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European citizens’ initiative

Eurovoc reference

c_c4c48e5c European citizens’ initiative

Related concepts

• Participatory democracy
• Petition

Alternative Concepts

• ECI
• Citizens’ initiative (EU)

Definition

Allows 1 million EU citizens to participate directly in EU policymaking on a specific issue, by calling on the European Commission to make a legislative proposal. Source: European Commission. Available at: <a href=

Other Languages

• Spanish: Iniciativa Ciudadana Europea
• French: Initiative citoyenne européenne
• German: Europäische Bürgerinitiative
• Italian: Iniziativa dei cittadini europei
• Portuguese: Iniciativa de Cidadania Europeia
• Polish: Europejska inicjatywa obywatelska

Properties and Values of European citizens’ initiative

• URI https://en.legalthesaurus.org/european-citizens-initiative/
• skos:Concept: https://en.legalthesaurus.org/european-citizens-initiative/

Preferred lexical labels

• skos:prefLabel: European citizens’ initiative (en) (USE)
• Term in other languages: see above

Generic concepts

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• skos:hasTopConcept: See above (Areas)

Specific concepts

• skos:narrower: See the specific concepts above (ST)

Related concepts

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Alternative lexical labels

• skos:altLabel: see the alternative concepts above (UF)
• skos:altLabel: synonym (S)
• skos:altLabel: look up European citizens’ initiative abbreviations and acronyms (A)

Documentation notes

• skos:scopeNote: this concept on European citizens’ initiative defines the activities of European citizens’ initiative (en)
• skos:editorialNote: Editorial Note on European citizens’ initiative (EN)
• skos:notation: Notation on European citizens’ initiative: see reference Eurovoc (N)
• skos:definition: European citizens’ initiative definition:
• skos:example: example of European citizens’ initiative usage:

Thematic indexing

• dct:subject: https://lawin.org/european-citizens-initiative/
• Definitions: See the meaning(s) of European citizens’ initiative
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Other general information

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