53Nevertheless, the objective of democratic participation of Union citizens underlying the ECI mechanism cannot frustrate the principle of conferred powers and authorise the European Union to legislate in a field for which no power has been accorded to it, so that the conditions set out in Article 352 EC must also be complied with in the context of a proposed ECI. Thus, the Commission has the task of establishing whether, in relation to a proposed ECI, it is manifest that it will be unable to make a proposal for a legal act founded on that provision. That is without prejudice, however, to the institutions’ assessment of the necessity of such a legal act inasmuch as that assessment may be carried out after the proposed ECI has been registered and be set out, as the case may be, in the communication provided for in Article 10(1)(c) of Regulation No 211/2011.
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