The Court also found that the European Parliament is sufficiently involved in the specific legislative processes and in the general democratic supervision of the activities of the European Community, to constitute part of the legislature of Gibraltar for the purposes of Article 3 of Protocol 1. Thus, through this sentence the Court underlined the obligations of Member states to ensure that citizens of each state are given opportunity to vote in European elections. As a result, in 1999 Gibraltar was included in the South West England constituency for the European Parliament election as of 2004. 21