The Member States 25 March 1957, Consolidated version of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union#PART SIX - INSTITUTIONAL AND FINANCIAL PROVISIONS#TITLE I - INSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS#CHAPTER 1 - THE INSTITUTIONS#SECTION 1 - THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT#Article 229 (ex Article 196 TEC)

7.6.2016 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 202/151 Article 229 (ex Article 196 TEC) The European Parliament shall hold an annual session. It shall meet, without requiring to be convened, on the second Tuesday in March. The European Parliament may meet in extraordinary part-session at the request of a majority of its component Members or at the request of the Council or of the Commission.