The committees of the House of Representatives will receive a number of petitions on Tuesday, September 9, as they do in every meeting week. Citizens and organizations wishing to voice their opinions 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 eight 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, September 9

  • 1:15 PM: petition Remove development cooperation from the lock from Oxfam Novib and several organizations to the committee for Foreign Trade and Development Aid;
  • 1:15 PM: petition for the survival and preservation of short-nosed dog breeds with FCI pedigree in the Netherlands by the Foundation Short-nosed Dogs to the committee for Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security, and Nature;
  • 1:15 PM: petition Give this family fleeing from Pakistan a residence status to the committee for Asylum and Migration;
  • 1:30 PM: petition Every person has the right to a healthy indoor climate! by the Foundation Healthy Indoor and Indoor Climate Netherlands to the committee for Housing and Spatial Planning;
  • 1:30 PM: petition Provide 2 weeks of statutory bereavement leave after early loss in pregnancy to the committee for Social Affairs and Employment;
  • 1:45 PM: petition about better utilization of existing buildings for housing by the National Renovation Platform (NRP) to the committee for Housing and Spatial Planning;
  • 1:45 PM: petition about a more structural approach to basic skills for adults by the Foundation Reading and Writing and Foundation ABC to the committee for Education, Culture, and Science;
  • 1:45 PM: petition Mandatory fair labels on ultra-processed food on behalf of Team Food from Collective Futures minor to the committee for Public 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, for example, be about government plans that the submitters disagree with, or about a topic that they believe receives too little attention in the House.

Read more

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