24As is stated in recital 1 of Regulation No 211/2011, by which the European Parliament and the Council adopted, in accordance with the first subparagraph of Article 24 TFEU, the provisions relating to the procedures and conditions required for the presentation of an ECI for the purposes of Article 11 TEU, the EU Treaty reinforces citizenship of the Union and enhances further the democratic functioning of the Union by providing, inter alia, that every citizen is to have the right to participate in the democratic life of the Union by way of an ECI (judgments of 30 September 2015, Anagnostakis v Commission, T‑450/12, currently under appeal, EU:T:2015:739, paragraph 26, and of 19 April 2016, Costantini and Others v Commission, T‑44/14, EU:T:2016:223, paragraphs 53 and 73). According to that recital, that mechanism allows citizens, following the example of the Parliament under Article 225 TFEU and of the Council under Article 241 TFEU, to directly approach the Commission asking it to submit a proposal for a legal act of the Union for the purpose of implementing the Treaties.
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