Increase of the number of seats of the Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men to 83

Resolution 1445 (2005)

Author(s):

Parliamentary Assembly

Origin

Text adopted by the Standing Committee acting on behalf of the Assembly on 6 June 2005 (see Doc. 10493, report of the Committee on Rules of Procedure and Immunities, rapporteur: Mrs Samoilovska-Cvetanova).

Thesaurus

1. The Parliamentary Assembly refers to Resolution 1144 (1998) which fixed the number of seats of the Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men to 45 seats (now 51 seats following the admission of new member states to the Council of Europe) and to Resolution 1220 (2000) which confirmed this decision.

2. It also takes note of the request by the Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men to increase the number of its seats to 83. This request was referred by the Bureau of the Assembly to the Committee on Rules of Procedure and Immunities according to Rule 65.2 of the Assembly’s Rules of Procedure.

3. The Assembly considers that the work of the Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men is of importance for the Assembly’s priorities. It also notes that with a view to its volume of activities and workload, the committee may be compared to other larger Assembly Committees with 83 seats.

4. The Assembly therefore supports the request of the Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men to increase the number of its seats to 83.

5. Consequently, the Assembly decides:

to replace in Rule 43.1.8 of the Assembly’s Rules of Procedure the words: “(51 seats)” by “(83 seats)”;

to replace the first three paragraphs of Rule 43.2 with the following text:

“France, Germany, Italy, the Russian Federation and the United Kingdom shall have four seats in each of the first eight committees and two seats in the next committee.

Poland, Romania, Spain, Turkey and Ukraine shall have three seats in each of the first eight committees and one seat in the next committee.

Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, the Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia and Montenegro, Sweden and Switzerland shall have two seats in each of the first eight committees and one seat in the next committee.” (the remainder of the paragraph without change).

that these provisions shall enter into force at the part-session which will follow the adoption by the Assembly of the present resolution.