
Article 1 

1. The proposed citizens' initiative entitled ‘EU Citizenship for Europeans: United in Diversity in Spite of jus soli and jus sanguinis’ is hereby registered.
2. Statements of support for this proposed citizens' initiative may be collected, based on the understanding that it aims at a proposal for a legal act of the Union that would ensure that, following the withdrawal of a Member State in accordance with Article 50 TEU, the citizens of that country can continue to benefit from similar rights to those which they enjoyed whilst that country was a Member State.
Article 2 
This Decision shall enter into force on 27 March 2017.
Article 3 
This Decision is addressed to the organisers (members of the citizens' committee) of the proposed citizens' initiative entitled ‘EU Citizenship for Europeans: United in Diversity in Spite of jus soli and jus sanguinis’, represented by [Personal data deleted following the consultation of the organisers] acting as contact persons.
Done at Brussels, 22 March 2017.
For the Commission
Frans TIMMERMANS
Vice-President