Luxembourg Compromise (Hansard, 25 February 1999)

HC Deb 25 February 1999 vol 326 c439W 439W

§ Mr. Maclean
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what estimate he has made of the number of occasions on which member states of the European Union have made use of their non-Treaty veto, established by the Luxembourg Compromise. [72287]

§ Ms Quin
No formal records are kept by the Government or the Council Secretariat of the occasions when Member States have invoked the Luxembourg Compromise.
The United Kingdom has invoked the Luxembourg Compromise twice, in July 1978 and May 1982.