The European Parliament functions include approving EU legislation together with the Council, exercising democratic control over other EU institutions like the Commission, and discussing and adopting the EU budget along with the Council. It is composed of Members of the European Parliament from each EU country, with the number of MEPs generally proportional to the country's population. The Parliament exercises influence by approving the Commission and can force it to resign, supervises its work through reports and commissioner questions, and establishes inquiry committees on citizen requests. Its headquarters are located in Brussels, Luxembourg, and Strasbourg.

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EUROPEAN PARLAMENT
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MANUEL
• Functions
• Approve EU
legislation
• Democratic
control
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• Budget
monitoring
• Composition
• Headquarters

2. FUNTIONS
•Discuss and approve, together with the Council, the
EU legislation.
•Submit to control other EU institutions, especially the
Commission, to ensure democratic functioning.
•Discuss and adopt, along with the Council on the EU
budget.

3. APPROVE EU LEGISLATION
• Protection of consumers and the environment, the
Parliament and the Council work together to decide the
content of EU legislation and officially adopt it.
• Parliamentary approval for certain major decisions, such
as allowing new countries to join the EU is required.

4. DEMOCRATIC CONTROL
• Parliament exercises its influence on other European institutions in various ways.
• When a new Commission, its 28 members, one from each EU country, is named may not take up
office until Parliament has given its approval. If MEPs disagree with the appointment of one of the
members (commissioners) may reject the full Commission.
• Parliament can force the Commission to resign during his term. This is what is called a "motion of
censure".
• The Parliament supervises the work of the Commission by examining reports that this produces and
questions the commissioners. His commissions play an important role here.
• Members of the European Parliament discussed the requests of citizens and may create committees
of inquiry.

5. BUDGET´S SUPERVISION
• Parliament adopts the annual budget of the EU with the
Council of the European Union.
• The Parliament has a commission that examines how the
budget has been spent and, each year, approve of the
previous year's budget by the Commission.

6. COMPOSITION
• The number of MEPs are there in each country is, in general,
proportional to their population.
• The Lisbon Treaty states that no country may have less than 6
or more than 96 deputies.
• However, the current Parliament still retains prior to entry into
force of the composition, so that the number of MEPs will be
modified in the next legislature.