• stipulated that Parliament as a whole had to be consulted on the choice of President .
This last provision effectively became a de facto binding vote once Jacques Santer , in 1994 , undertook to withdraw if the vote in Parliament on his nomination as Commission President went against him . Together , all these changes formalised tighter bonds of accountability between the two institutions .
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The character of this accountability was broadened again when Parliament set out in its Rules of Procedure that , before voting on the Commission , it would require each prospective Commissioner to appear in a public hearing before the appropriate parliamentary
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