(1) The members of the European Parliament shall in Austria be elected in accordance with the principles of proportional representation on the basis of equal, direct, personal, free and secret suffrage be men and women who have completed their sixteenth year of life on the day of election and on the day appointed for elecation are either endowed with Austrian nationality and not excluded from suffrage under the provisos of European Union law or endowed with the nationality of another member state of the European Union and qualified to vote under the provisos of European Union Law.

Federal territory constitutes for elections to the European Parliament a single electoral body.

(3) Eligible for election are all those in Austria entitled to vote for the European Parlament having completed their eighteenth year of life on the day of election.

(4) .Art. 26 para 5 to 8 is to be applied accordingly.

(5) (Note: Repealed by F.L.G. I No. 27/2007)

(6) (Note: Repealed by F.L.G. I No. 27/2007)