Reconsideration of Resolution 96 relating to the incompatibility of a paid office under the Council of Europe with a parliamentary membership

Resolution 116 (1957)

Author(s):

Parliamentary Assembly

Origin

(see Doc.612, draft Resolution presented by the Committee on Rules of Ptocedure and Privileges and Explanatory Memorandum by M. Bichet). This Resolution was adopted by the Assembly at its 36th Sitting, on 10th January 1957

The Assembly,

With reference to Resolution 96, adopted on 20th April 1956 ;

Having been seize of a request for reconsideration ;

Considering that it is not necessarily in the interests of the Secretariat-General to deprive it of the possible assistance of any person who has held parliamentary membership,

Resolves :

that paragraph 2 of Resolution 96 shall be deleted and replaced by the following paragraph :

"A person who is a Representative to the Consultative Assembly or member of a national parliament shall be debarred from accepting a salaried post in the Office of the Clerk or other Departments of the Secretariat-General of the Council of Europe until the termination of his mandate."