Article 39 - Right to vote and to stand as a candidate at elections to the European Parliament
78. the definition of the persons entitled to vote and to stand as a candidate in elections to the European Parliament falls within the competence of each Member State in compliance with Community law.” The EC Treaty provisions did not “preclude the Member States from granting that right to vote and to stand as a candidate to certain persons who have close links to them, other than their own nationals or citizens of the Union resident in their territory.