73Regulation No 211/2011 sets out the procedures and conditions required for the submission of such an ECI. It states, in recital 8 thereof, that a minimum organised structure is needed and, to that end, it provides for the creation of a citizens’ committee, composed of natural persons (organisers) coming from at least seven different Member States, which is responsible for preparing the ECI and submitting it to the Commission. Regulation No 211/2011 provides, in Article 4 thereof, that the ECI proposal must be registered with the Commission and that that registration is completed once the Commission finds that a certain number of conditions, listed in the abovementioned provision, are fulfilled. It is only following that registration that the collection of statements of support for a proposed ECI involving at least one million signatories, coming from at least one quarter of all Member States, may be initiated. That collection must be made in accordance with the procedures and conditions defined in detail in Articles 5 to 8 of Regulation No 211/2011. Article 9 of Regulation No 211/2011 provides for the possibility for the organisers, provided that all the procedures and conditions set out in that regulation have been complied with, to submit the ECI to the Commission.
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