The committees of the House of Representatives will receive a number of petitions on Tuesday, July 1, as they do every meeting week. Citizens and organizations wishing to express their views will come to the building of the House of Representatives to do so in the form of a petition presentation. This time, the Members of Parliament will receive six petitions.

The petition presentation will take place between 1:15 PM and 2:00 PM in the central hall of the House of Representatives, the Statenpassage. Citizens and organizations will present the petitions to various committees. Members of Parliament from those committees will come to the Statenpassage to receive the petitions.

Petitions on Tuesday, July 1

• 1:15 PM: petition regarding research into LED lighting and the societal impact of the accelerated switch to 100% LED on behalf of a consortium of Fedet (Federation of Electrical Engineering), NLA, FME, Technology Netherlands, and the NVDE to the committee for Climate and Green Growth;
• 1:15 PM: petition for adjusting and improving the policy for migraines and other headache disorders on behalf of the Headache Alliance to the committee for Health, Welfare, and Sport;
• 1:30 PM: petition Consequences of Education Cuts Worse Than Expected on behalf of FNV Education and Research to the committee for Education, Culture, and Science;
• 1:30 PM: petition Improve Road Safety on the N50 on behalf of the municipality of Kampen to the committee for Infrastructure and Water Management;
• 1:30 PM: petition Generation Research Outdoor Play 2025 on behalf of Jantje Beton to the committee for Health, Welfare, and Sport;
• 1:45 PM: petition regarding the recognition of obesity as a chronic disease and the necessity of accessible treatment on behalf of the NVOO to the committee for Health, Welfare, and Sport.

What is a petition?

A petition is a way for citizens and organizations to make their voices heard. The petition can be about government plans that the submitters disagree with, or about a topic that they believe is receiving too little attention in the House.

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Besides voting in elections, there are other ways for citizens to influence politics; the petition is one of them. Read more at How the House Works.