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During the Atelier, AER has also launched its 4th edition of the AER Communicating Europea Award which is dedicated amongst others to the new European Citizens' Initiative. Please check here to find out more.

Please find here further information on the AER Communicating Europe Award and the winning entries for the 2009 edition. 

 
Information on the AER European Citizens' Forum is available here.

Article 11 of the Lisbon Treaty

1. The institutions shall, by appropriate means, give citizens and representative associations the opportunity to make known and publicly exchange their views in all areas of Union action.

4. Not less than one million citizens who are nationals of a significant number of Member States may take the initiative of inviting the European Commission, within the framework of its powers, to submit any appropriate proposal on matters where citizens consider that a legal act of the Union is required for the purpose of implementing the Treaties. The procedures and conditions required for such a citizens' initiative shall be determined in accordance with the first paragraph of Article 24 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. 

The Commission launched a public consultation with its Green Paper on the European Citizens' Initiative, which gives an overview of the legal, administrative and practical issues that will need to be addressed by the Regulation and therefore asks a number of questions to which interested parties are invited to respond by 31st January 2010.