Activities of the Bureau of the Assembly and the Standing Committee (24 January 2011)
Progress report
| Doc. 12477 Part II
| 24 January 2011
- Committee
- Bureau of the Assembly
- Rapporteur :
- Ms Anne BRASSEUR,
Luxembourg, ALDE
- Origin
- The
Bureau met on 24 January 2011 in Strasbourg. 2011 - First part-session
1 Decisions
of the Bureau not requiring ratification by the Assembly
...
2 Decisions of the
Bureau requiring ratification by the Assembly
2.1 2011 First ordinary
part-session (Strasbourg, 24-28 January 2011)
2.1.1 Requests for debates
under urgent procedure and current affairs debate
1. Following the request submitted by the Group of the
European People’s Party (EPP/CD), the Bureau decided to recommend
to the Assembly to hold a debate under urgent procedure on the subject
“ Recent violence against Christians in the Middle East ” and to
refer this matter to the Political Affairs Committee for report.
2. Following the requests submitted by the Alliance of Liberals
and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) and by Mr Lipiński and 20 of members
of the Assembly, the Bureau decided to recommend to the Assembly
to hold a debate under urgent procedure debate on the subject: “The
situation in Belarus in the aftermath of the Presidential election
which took place on 19 December 2010” and to refer this matter to
the Political Affairs Committee for report and to the Committee
on Legal affairs and Human Rights for opinion.
3. Following the request submitted by the Socialist Group (SOC),
the Bureau decided to recommend to the Assembly to hold a debate
under urgent procedure on : “The situation in Tunisia” and to refer
this matter to the Political Affairs Committee for report.
4. Following a request by the Socialist group (SOC), the Bureau
decided to recommend to the Assembly to hold a current affairs debate
on “The functioning of democracy in Hungary”. The Bureau appointed
Mr von Sydow (Sweden, SOC) to open the debate.
2.1.2 Election of a judge
to the European Court of Human Rights with regard to Portugal
5. The Bureau took note of the recommendations contained
in the document and decided to transmit them to members of the Assembly.
2.1.3 Updating of the
draft agenda
6. The Bureau updated the draft agenda.
2.1.4 Draft agenda of
the Joint Committee
7. The Bureau took note of the acceptance by the Committee
of Ministers of the draft agenda proposed by the Bureau.
.1 Progress report of the Bureau of the Assembly
and of the Standing Committee (8 October 2010- 24 January 2011)
8. The Bureau approved the Progress Report.
2.2 Election observation
2.2.1 Azerbaijan: Parliamentary
elections (7 November 2010)
9. The Bureau approved the report on the observation
of the parliamentary elections in the Republic of Azerbaijan.
2.2.2 Moldova: Early
parliamentary elections (28 November 2010)
10. The Bureau approved the report on the observation
of the early parliamentary elections in the Republic of Moldova.
2.3 References and
transmissions to committees
2.3.1 References to committees
11. The Bureau approved the following references and
modifications to references, subject to ratification by the Assembly:
- Doc. 12442, Motion for a resolution
presented by Mrs John-Calame and others, Food
security and the environment: to the Committee on the
Environment, Agriculture and Local and Regional Affairs for report
- Doc. 12444, Motion for a resolution presented by Mrs Maury-Pasquier
and others, Putting an end to coercive
sterilisations and castrations: to the Social, Health
and Family Affairs Committee for report
andto the Committee
on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men for
opinion
- Doc. 12472, Request for an opinion from the Committee
of Ministers, Convention on preventing
and combating violence against women and domestic violence:to the Committee on Equal Opportunities
for Women and Men for report
2.3.2 Request to extend
a reference
- Doc. 11774, Motion for
a resolution presented by Mr Gross and others, Self-evaluation by
Europe’s national parliaments: procedural guidelines, Ref. 3520
of 29 January 2009 - validity : 29 January 2011: extension until 30 June 2011
2.4 Vice-Presidents
of the Assembly in 2011
12. The Bureau took note of the list of candidates.
2.5 Resolution 1376
(2004) relating to Cyprus
13. The Bureau took note of letters from the two Turkish
Cypriot political parties informing the President of the Assembly
of the names of the “elected representatives of the Turkish Cypriot
community” entitled to sit in the Assembly, namely Mr Ahmet Eti
(National Unity Party) and Mr Mehmet Çaglar (Republican Turkish
Party), to be submitted to the Assembly for its approval within
the framework of the Progress Report.
2.6 Composition of
the Monitoring Committee and the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities
and Institutional Affairs
14. The Bureau took note of the lists of members.
