Editing Veto (section)

=== International bodies ===
* {{flag|United Nations}}: The five permanent members of the [[United Nations Security Council]] have an absolute veto over Security Council resolutions, except for procedural matters.<ref name="un-27">{{Cite web
  | title = Charter of the United Nations: Chapter V – The Security Council: Article 27
  | url = https://legal.un.org/repertory/art27.shtml
  | access-date = 2022-06-15
  | work = Repertory of Practice of United Nations Organs
  | publisher = United Nations
}}</ref> Every permanent member has used this power at some point.<ref name="un-voting">{{Cite web
  | url =  https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/content/voting-system
  | access-date = 2022-06-15
  | title = Voting System 
  | publisher =  United Nations Security Council
  | quote = All five permanent members have exercised the right of veto at one time or another. If a permanent member does not fully agree with a proposed resolution but does not wish to cast a veto, it may choose to abstain, thus allowing the resolution to be adopted if it obtains the required number of nine favourable votes.
}}</ref> A permanent member that wants to disagree with a resolution, but not to veto it, can abstain.<ref name="un-voting"/> The first country to use the latter power was the [[USSR]] in 1946, after its amendments to a resolution regarding the withdrawal of British troops from Lebanon and Syria were rejected.<ref>{{Cite web
  | url = https://undocs.org/en/S/PV.23
  | title = Twenty-Third Meeting
  | date = 1946-02-16
  | access-date = 2022-06-15
  | publisher = United Nations
}}</ref>{{further|United Nations Security Council veto power}}
* {{flag|European Union}}:  The members of the [[Council of the European Union|EU Council]] have veto power in certain areas, such as foreign policy and the accession of a new member state, due to the requirement of unanimity in these areas. For example, Bulgaria has used this power to block [[Accession of North Macedonia to the European Union|accession talks for North Macedonia]],<ref>{{Cite web
  | url =  https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/short_news/bulgaria-sets-3-conditions-for-lifting-north-macedonia-veto/
  | access-date = 2022-06-15
  | title = Bulgaria sets 3 conditions for lifting North Macedonia veto
  | work = EURACTIV.com
  | author = Krassen Nikolov
  | date = 2022-06-09
}}</ref> and in the 1980s, the United Kingdom (then a member of the EU's precursor, the [[European Economic Community|EEC]]) secured the [[UK rebate]] by threatening to use its veto power to stall legislation.<ref>{{Cite book
  | title = Veto Power: Institutional Design in the European Union
  | author-first = Jonathan B. 
  | author-last = Slapin
  | year = 2011
  | publisher = University of Michigan Press
  | doi = 10.2307/j.ctt1qv5nfq
  | url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1qv5nfq
  | page =  123
  | isbn = 9780472117932
  | chapter = Exit Threats, Veto Rights, and Integration
| jstor = j.ctt1qv5nfq 
 }}</ref> In addition, when the [[Parliament of the European Union|Parliament]] and Council delegate legislative authority to the [[European Commission|Commission]], they can provide for a [[legislative veto]] over regulations that the Commission issues under that delegated authority.<ref>{{Cite web
  | url =  https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:12008E290:en:HTML
  | access-date = 2022-06-15
  | work = EUR-Lex
  | title =  Article 290 
}}</ref><ref name="schuetze-2011">{{Cite journal
  | title = 'Delegated' Legislation in the (new) European Union: A Constitutional Analysis 
  | author-first = Robert 
  | author-last = Schütze 
  |journal = The Modern Law Review 
  | date = September 2011
  | volume = 74
  | issue = 5
  | pages = 661–693 
 | doi = 10.1111/j.1468-2230.2011.00866.x 
 | jstor = 41302774 
 | s2cid = 219376667 
 | url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/41302774}}</ref> This power was first introduced in 2006 as "regulatory procedure with scrutiny", and since 2009 as "delegated acts" under the [[Lisbon Treaty]].<ref name="dearth">{{Cite web
  | url =  https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2016/10/25/a-dearth-of-legislative-vetoes/
  | access-date = 2022-06-15
  | title = A dearth of legislative vetoes: Why the Council and Parliament have been reluctant to veto Commission legislation
  | author1-first = Michael K.
  | author1-last = Kaeding
  | author2-first = Kevin M.
  | author2-last = Stack
  | date = 2016-10-25
}}</ref> This legislative veto power has been used sparingly: from 2006 to 2016, the Parliament issued 14 vetoes and the Council issued 15.<ref name="dearth"/>{{further|Voting in the Council of the European Union|European Union legislative procedure}}