Reaffirming its determination to exercise its consultative function in the full significance of the term;
Considering that one of the surest methods of achieving this aim is to improve and develop its relations with the parliaments of member countries ;
Considering that the adoption of this method implies that those relations shall be of an organic and permanent character,
1 There shall be set up a permanent working party with the general task of maintaining close links between the Consultative Assembly and national parliaments.
2 This Working Party shall be made up of seven members freely appointed by the Bureau. It shall elect a Chairman. It shall meet as often as it considers appropriates.
3 The Working Party shall select texts from among those adopted by the Consultative Assembly for transmission to the national parliaments. Where necessary, it shall decide what funds are required for the translation, printing and distribution of the selected texts.
4 It shall provide the Assembly each year with a general picture of the action taken in the national parliaments to implement the Assembly's decisions.
5 After each session of the Assembly, it shall assist the national delegations or their individual members in whatever steps they undertake to present the results of the Assembly's work to their own parliaments.
6 The Working Party shall, accordingly, establish all the necessary contacts, in particular with the Chairmen of the political groups, the Committee Chairmen and Rapporteurs, the spokesmen and the secretaries of the national delegations.
7 As soon as the Working Party finds it appropriate, it should report to the Assembly on how far the methods laid down in the present Resolution are proving effective for their purpose, and submit whatever further proposals are called for.
