Activities of the Assembly’s Bureau and Standing Committee (9 October 2017)
Progress report
| Doc. 14409 Add. 1
| 09 October 2017
1 Decisions of
the Bureau of 9 October 2017 requiring ratification by the Assembly
1.1 References and
transmissions to committees
1.1.1 References to
committees
The Bureau considered and approved the following reference:
- Bureau decision, Amending Rule
19 of the Assembly’s Rules of Procedure on political groups: reference to
the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional
Affairs for report;
1.2 Election of Judges
to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Georgia and
Turkey
The Bureau took note of the report drawn up by the Committee
on the Election of Judges which had assessed the qualifications
of the candidates to the posts of judge to the Court in respect
of Georgia and Turkey. This report had been already declassified
by the Committee and submitted to the attention of all members of
the Assembly (Doc. 14409 Addendum
2). The Committee recommended that the list of candidates
in respect of Turkey be rejected.
1.3 Composition of
the Monitoring Committee and the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities
and Institutional Affairs
1.3.1 Monitoring Committee
On the basis of a proposal by the SOC Group, the Bureau appointed
Ms Maryvonne Blondin (France), subject to ratification by the Assembly.
On the basis of a proposal by the ALDE Group, the Bureau appointed
Ms Anne Brasseur (Luxembourg), subject to ratification by the Assembly.
On the basis of a proposal by the UEL Group, the Bureau appointed
Mr Pablo Bustinduy (Spain), subject to ratification by the Assembly.
1.3.2 Committee on
Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
On the basis of Rule 44.3.b of
the Rules of Procedure, the Bureau appointed Ms Daphné Dumery (Belgium, NR)
and Mr Jordi Xuclà (Spain, ALDE), subject to ratification by the
Assembly.
The Assembly is invited to ratify
these Bureau decisions.
2 Other decisions
by the Bureau
2.1 Fourth part-session
of 2017 (Strasbourg, 9-13 October)
2.1.1 Requests for
debates under urgent procedure:
The Bureau took note of the following requests:
- request tabled by Mr Talip Küçukcan
(Turkey, EC) and 24 members of the Assembly for the Assembly to
hold a debate under urgent procedure on The
extremely worrying humanitarian situation of the Rohingya:
decided not to recommend that the Assembly hold such a debate;
- request tabled by Mr Titus Corlățean (Romania, SOC) and
39 members of the Assembly for the Assembly to hold a debate under
urgent procedure on The new Ukrainian
law on education: a major impediment of the teaching of national
minorities’ mother tongues: decided to recommend that
the Assembly hold such a debate and to refer the matter to the Committee
on Culture, Science, Education and Media for
report;
2.1.2 Request for a
current affairs debate
The Bureau took note of the following request:
- request tabled by Mr Tiny Kox
(Netherlands, Chairperson of the UEL Group), on behalf of his group,
for the Assembly to hold a current affairs debate on The need for a political solution to the crisis
in Catalonia: decided to recommend that the Assembly
hold such a debate and designated Mr Andrej Hunko (Germany, UEL)
as the first speaker.
2.1.3 Draft agenda
The Bureau updated the draft agenda.
2.2 Joint Committee
(Strasbourg, 12 October 2017, from 3 to 4.30 pm)
The Bureau prepared the meeting.
2.3 Acknowledgement
of a new political group (Free Democrats Group), effective date
The Bureau:
- took note
of the letter by the Chairperson of the Committee on Rules of Procedure,
Immunities and Institutional Affairs as well as of the Committee’s
decision on the interpretation of Rule 19 of the Rules of Procedure
of the Parliamentary Assembly confirming 4 September 2017 as the
date of the acknowledgement of the formation of the group;
- decided to ask the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities
and Institutional Affairs to prepare a report on Amending Rule 19 of the Assembly’s Rules of
Procedure on political groups;
- and asked the incoming President of the Assembly and the
Secretary General of the Assembly to verify the authenticity of
the signatures and the validity of the consent of the members of
the FDG group who have resigned from the EC Group.
2.4 Progress report
of the Bureau of the Assembly and the Standing Committee (30 June
– 8 October 2017)
The Bureau approved the Progress report.
2.5 Communications
The Bureau took note of the communication by the Secretary
General of the Council of Europe.
2.6 Meetings elsewhere
than Strasbourg and Paris
The Bureau authorised the sub-Committee on Children of the
Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
to meet in London on 6-7 November 2017.
