The status of former presidents of the Parliamentary Assembly

Motion for a resolution | Doc. 13686 | 27 January 2015

Signatories:

Mr Pedro AGRAMUNT, Spain, EPP/CD ; Ms Brigitte ALLAIN, France, SOC ; Mr Jean-Charles ALLAVENA, Monaco, EPP/CD ; Ms Danielle AUROI, France, SOC ; Mr Viorel Riceard BADEA, Romania, EPP/CD ; Mr David BAKRADZE, Georgia, EPP/CD ; Mr Levan BERDZENISHVILI, Georgia, ALDE ; Mr Jean-Marie BOCKEL, France, EPP/CD ; Mr Charlò BONNICI, Malta, EPP/CD ; Mr Mladen BOSIĆ, Bosnia and Herzegovina, NR ; Mr Raphaël COMTE, Switzerland, ALDE ; Ms Pascale CROZON, France, SOC ; Mr Jim D'ARCY, Ireland, EPP/CD ; Mr Hendrik DAEMS, Belgium, ALDE ; Ms Marie-Christine DALLOZ, France, EPP/CD ; Ms Aleksandra DJUROVIĆ, Serbia, EPP/CD ; Ms Nicole DURANTON, France, EPP/CD ; Ms Doris FIALA, Switzerland, ALDE ; Mr Kancho FILIPOV, Bulgaria, ALDE ; Mr Bernard FOURNIER, France, EPP/CD ; Mr Hans FRANKEN, Netherlands, EPP/CD ; Ms Cindy FRANSSEN, Belgium, EPP/CD ; Mr Jean-Claude FRÉCON, France, SOC ; Mr Valeriu GHILETCHI, Republic of Moldova, EPP/CD ; Ms Anette HÜBINGER, Germany, EPP/CD ; Mr Denis JACQUAT, France, EPP/CD ; Mr Gordan JANDROKOVIĆ, Croatia, EPP/CD ; Mr Tedo JAPARIDZE, Georgia, SOC ; Mr Giorgi KANDELAKI, Georgia, EPP/CD ; Ms Tinatin KHIDASHELI, Georgia, ALDE ; Mr Pierre-Yves LE BORGN', France, SOC ; Mr Jean-Yves LE DÉAUT, France, SOC ; Mr Jacques LEGENDRE, France, EPP/CD ; Mr François LONCLE, France, SOC ; Mr Saša MAGAZINOVIĆ, Bosnia and Herzegovina, SOC ; Ms Guguli MAGRADZE, Georgia, SOC ; Mr Thierry MARIANI, France, EPP/CD ; Ms Milica MARKOVIĆ, Bosnia and Herzegovina, SOC ; Mr Frano MATUŠIĆ, Croatia, EPP/CD ; Mr Jean-Claude MIGNON, France, EPP/CD ; Mr Zsolt NÉMETH, Hungary, EPP/CD ; Mr Aleksandar NIKOLOSKI, ''The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia'', EPP/CD ; Mr Joseph O'REILLY, Ireland, EPP/CD ; Mr Žarko OBRADOVIĆ, Serbia, SOC ; Ms Marija OBRADOVIĆ, Serbia, EPP/CD ; Mr Pieter OMTZIGT, Netherlands, EPP/CD ; Ms Liliana PALIHOVICI, Republic of Moldova, EPP/CD ; Mr Cezar Florin PREDA, Romania, EPP/CD ; Ms Carmen QUINTANILLA, Spain, EPP/CD ; Mr Luc RECORDON, Switzerland, SOC ; Mr André REICHARDT, France, EPP/CD ; Mr Frédéric REISS, France, EPP/CD ; Mr François ROCHEBLOINE, France, EPP/CD ; Mr René ROUQUET, France, SOC ; Mr Rudy SALLES, France, EPP/CD ; Ms Elisabeth SCHNEIDER-SCHNEITER, Switzerland, EPP/CD ; Mr Urs SCHWALLER, Switzerland, EPP/CD ; Mr Senad ŠEPIĆ, Bosnia and Herzegovina, EPP/CD ; Mr Mher SHAHGELDYAN, Armenia, EPP/CD ; Ms Petra De SUTTER, Belgium, SOC ; Ms Chiora TAKTAKISHVILI, Georgia, ALDE ; Mr Egidijus VAREIKIS, Lithuania, EPP/CD ; Mr Stefaan VERCAMER, Belgium, EPP/CD ; Mr Piotr WACH, Poland, EPP/CD ; Ms Marie-Jo ZIMMERMANN, France, EPP/CD ; Mr Emanuelis ZINGERIS, Lithuania, EPP/CD

This motion has not been discussed in the Assembly and commits only those who have signed it.

The Parliamentary Assembly considered it important that, given in particular the experience acquired during his mandate, the outgoing President should be an ex officio member of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy. It also appears advisable that, as with the chairpersons of political groups, he should also be an ex officio member of the Monitoring Committee and of the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs, two fields where a former President of the Assembly has been led to play an important role and where his experience can be useful.

It is therefore proposed to add, at the end of Article 20.3 of the Rules of Procedure, the words “of the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (monitoring committee) and of the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs”.