It was suggesting a unanimous vote on certain financial-services issues, rather than the qualified majority vote.
In theory, lots of EU financial regulations could be decided by qualified majority vote.
Another prerequisite to expansion is the extension of qualified majority voting (QMV) in the European Council.
It would expand the policy areas subject to qualified majority voting (QMV), rather than unanimity.
EU-wide taxes should be decided by qualified majority voting among the Union's countries.
Friday's vote is the first time a commission proposal on GM crops has been defeated through qualified majority voting among ministers.
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Voting in the 27-nation Council is usually by qualified majority - that is, votes are weighted according to a country's size.
All of this is to be voted on next week but it would require a qualified majority against to derail the proposal.
Under the treaty, applicants will be chosen next spring at a summit, by qualified majority vote of all existing members of the Union.
The draft amending budget can be adopted if a qualified majority of member states support it - meaning that the UK can be outvoted.
The EU Treaty would also expand the policy areas subject to "qualified majority voting" - rather than allowing all 27 member states a veto - and establish an EU high representative for foreign affairs.
Unlike the Fund's existing Supplementary Reserve Facility and new Contingency Credit Line, access to the contagion facility would require an explicit finding by a qualified majority of creditor countries that the crisis was systemic.
The long-term budget for 2014-20 requires unanimity among the 27 member states, giving the UK a veto - but the budget for the single year 2013 is decided by qualified majority voting, meaning Britain could be over-ruled.
The argument about City regulations was about the danger of a newly united eurozone being able to outvote the UK - using qualified majority voting or QMV - under new rules which are still due to come in 2014.
But having failed to get anywhere with its proposal for voting weights based on the square root of a country's population, Poland is now talking about ways of making it more difficult for large countries to block a qualified majority vote.
But Britain will be absent from the Council of Ministers, so that a qualified majority will require 44 votes out of 66, rather than 54 out of 76 (the big countries have ten votes each in the Council of Ministers, smaller ones have fewer votes).
Yes, in theory, the commission could then re-submit the original proposals unamended, but in practice they would be unlikely to do so, not least because, if a third of national parliaments are against a proposal, so will be their governments, and the commission would be close to losing the qualified majority needed to pass laws.
The Council of Ministers uses a system of weighted qualified-majority voting in which small countries are heavily over-represented.
Qualified-majority voting means, at present, that a proposal must get at least 62 out of 87 possible votes (ie, a 71% majority) to pass.
The fiercest arguments will probably come over qualified-majority voting.
Breyer noted separately he would give Morse qualified immunity from the lawsuit, but did not sign onto the majority's broader free speech limits on students.
But the vast majority of the service jobs that are now going offshore do not require highly qualified engineers.
The California State University System declined to take the vast majority of transfer students this spring and has turned away about 20, 000 students who qualified for admission during each of the past three years, a spokesman said.
Yet according to the eye-opening 2010 Single in America study by renowned biological anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher (someone ACTUALLY qualified to be an expert) for Match.com, that is not at all what the majority of young males feel.
Finding qualified women in a country where only 9% of board seats were held by women in 2003 and the vast majority of senior corporate jobs are filled by men proved challenging.
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