Parliamentary scrutiny of international institutions
Recommendation 1567
(2002)
- Author(s):
- Parliamentary Assembly
- Origin
- Assembly debate on
25 June 2002 (19th Sitting) (see Doc. 9484, report of the Political
Affairs Committee, rapporteur: Mr Toshev; and Doc. 9485, opinion of the Committee
on Economic Affairs and Development, rapporteur: Mrs Zapfl-Helbling).
Text adopted by the Assembly on 25 June 2002 (19th Sitting).
- Thesaurus
1. The Assembly refers to its Resolution 1289 (2002) on
parliamentary scrutiny of international institutions and, as regards
the Council of Europe, it contends that the effectiveness of its
work depends to a great extent on effective co-operation between
its two statutory bodies, the Parliamentary Assembly and the Committee
of Ministers.
2. In order to improve this co-operation, the Assembly recommends
that the Committee of Ministers:
- allow
for greater involvement of the Parliamentary Assembly in the budgetary
process, especially as regards determining the ceiling of the Council
of Europe’s overall budget;
- establish a co-decision-making process for the adoption
of draft treaties;
- introduce the practice of the official participation of
the President of the Assembly in meetings of the Committee of Ministers;
- reinforce monitoring procedures, including by the use
of comparative methods;
- improve the transparency of the implementation of Assembly
recommendations.
