70In addition, it follows from those provisions that, by ‘tak[ing] note’ of the election results declared officially by the Member States, the European Parliament necessarily recognises that the persons who have been officially declared elected have, as a result of this, become Members of that institution, which is why it must exercise its competence as regards those Members by verifying their credentials.
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