Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Attorney-General – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 12 February 2013.
Michael Connarty
Labour, Linlithgow and East Falkirk
11:30,
12 February 2013
Whether he has had discussions with the European Commission on the legal status of Scotland’s membership of the EU in the event of a yes vote to independence.
The European Commission is the politically independent institution that represents and upholds the interests of the EU as a whole. It is the driving force within the EU’s institutional system: it proposes legislation, policies and programmes of action and it is responsible for implementing the decisions of Parliament and the Council.
Like the Parliament and Council, the European Commission was set up in the 1950s under the EU’s founding treaties.
