OBJECTIVE: to adapt the Annex to Directive 94/80/EC laying down detailed arrangements for the
exercise of the right to vote and to stand as a candidate in municipal elections by citizens of the
Union residing in a Member State of which they are not nationals, by adding the names of the local
administrative areas in the three new Member States, bearing in mind in particular that Finland and
Austria were due to hold municipal elections in the autumn of 1996.
SUBSTANCE: It was proposed that the following paragraphs be inserted in the Annex to
Directive 94/80/EC:
- In Austria: Gemeinden, Bezirke in der Stadt Wien;
- In Finland: kunta, kommun, kommun på Åland;
- In Sweden: Kommuner, Landsting.�