OBJECTIVE: to amend Directive 94/80/EC laying down detailed arrangements for exercising the right to vote and to stand as a candidate in local elections by citizens of the Union residing in a Member State of which they are not nationals, in order to take account of the accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden.
COMMUNITY MEASURE: Council Directive 96/30/EC amending Directive 94/80/EC.
CONTENT: the Annex to Directive 94/80/EC has been amended so as to specify the basic local government units of the three new Member States:
- in Austria: Gemeinden, Bezirke in der Stadt Wien;
- in Finland: kunta, kommun, kommun pa Aland;
- in Sweden: Kommuner, Lansting.
ENTRY INTO FORCE: 22 May 1996.
�