Making Assembly committee meetings and documents accessible to the public

Order 377 (1979)

Author(s):

Parliamentary Assembly

Origin

Assembly debate on 1 February 1979 (24th Sitting) (see Doc. 4195, report of the Legal Affairs Committee). Text adopted by the Assembly on 1 February 1979 (24th Sitting).

Thesaurus

The Assembly

1. Having regard to its Recommendation 854 (1979), on access by the public to government records and freedom of information ;

2. Considering that some committee documents may be made available to the public and that in 1977 it decided to remove the ban on the circulation of and quotation from all documents of its Bureau and committees after a period of twenty-five years ;

3. Considering that it is desirable that the work of its committees be as open as possible,

4. Instructs its Committee on Rules of Procedure to study whether and to what extent committee meetings and committee documents could be made accessible to the public.