Commentary on Sections Part 2: Implementation of Transitional Protocol on MEPs Section 15: Protocol on MEPs: approval, and addition to list of treaties
113.This section provides for parliamentary approval of the Transitional Protocol on MEPs (‘MEPs Protocol’) for the purposes of section 5 of the 2008 Act. Subsection (2) provides that the MEPs Protocol is to be included in the definition of ‘the Treaties’ contained in section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.