మయొట్టె " ఓవర్సీస్ కలెక్టివిటీ " హోదా నుండి " డొమెస్టిక్ కాంస్టిట్యూషనల్ " మారిన పరిణామం చెందిన తరువాత పూర్తిస్థాయి ఫ్రెంచి నియోజకవర్గంగా మారింది. ఐరోపాసమాఖ్య మయొట్టెను " ఓవర్సీస్ కంట్రీగానూ భూభాగంగానూ " గౌరవించింది. <ref name="CD 2013/61/EU">{{cite web | url=http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2013:353:0005:0006:EN:PDF | title=Council Directive 2013/61/EU of December 2013 | date=2013-12-17 | accessdate=2014-01-01 | format=PDF}}</ref>
Despite its domestic constitutional evolution from the status of an overseas collectivity to that of an overseas department, effectively becoming a full constituent territory within the French Republic, with regards to the European Union, Mayotte remained an 'overseas country and territory' (OCT) in ''association'' with the Union (as per Article 355(2) TFEU) and not a constituent territory of the European Union in the same way as the other four overseas departments. However following a directive of the [[European Council]] in December 2013, Mayotte became an [[outermost region]] of the [[European Union]] on 1 January 2014.<ref name="CD 2013/61/EU">{{cite web | url=http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2013:353:0005:0006:EN:PDF | title=Council Directive 2013/61/EU of December 2013 | date=2013-12-17 | accessdate=2014-01-01 | format=PDF}}</ref> This successful agreement between the 27 member states follows a petition made by the French government for Mayotte to become an integral territory of the European Union nonetheless benefiting from the derogation clause applicable in existing outermost regions, namely Article 349 TFEU, as favoured in a June 2012 European Commission opinion on Mayotte's European constitutional status.<ref>http://www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/EU/XXIV/EU/08/45/EU_84522/imfname_10032623.pdf</ref>
