'Parliament accepted our proposal to ask the European Commission to come forward with a recommendation that we would end the bi-annual clock change'
So if I understand it correctly, this is a 'proposal' 'to ask' for 'a recommendation' ?
However this year there was a petition in Fineland to abolish DST, so Finnish Parliament asked European Parliament to drop it. European Parliament said sure and asked executive branch (Commission) to draft a law, since they can't do it themselves.
Commission would draft a law, Parliament would vote on it, then Council (representatives from executive branch of Member States) would vote on it and after that Member States could drop DST if they want by whatever process they have.
No. What gave you that idea?
For reference, here is the text that was adopted today: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//...
For the moment, you need to click on the PDF icon on the page to get the PDF version of the text, the HTML is not there yet at the moment of writing. Apart from the looong recitals, the core of the text adopted today is simply the following:
The European Parliament [...]
1.
Calls on the Commission to conduct a thorough assessment of
Directive 2000/84/EC and, if necessary, come up with a proposal
for its revision;
2.
Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Commission,
the Council, and the governments and parliaments of the Member States.
Thanks for the reference, that's reassuring!
Looking from the other side, laws and bills in the US seem to me to often have titles like "something something act", which are short, catchy but just as often as not, utterly misleading and/or meaning the opposite of what they actually do. Or blatant propaganda like "patriot act". But alas, I don't speak propagandese ...
(Edit: OP has added "/s" marker.)