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Problem of European integration and parliamentary institutions

Recommendation 101 (1956)

Author(s):
Parliamentary Assembly
Origin
(see Doc. 568, draft Recommendation submitted by the Committee on General Affairs, Explanatory Memorandum by M. van der Goes van Naters, and Report drawn up by Mlle Klompé). This Recommendation was adopted by the Assembly at its 23rd Sitting, on 23rd October 1956

The Assembly,

Being concerned that European parliamentary control should be instituted over such real powers as may be vested in European organisations, which would thus lie beyond the control of national parliaments;

Having regard to the continual expansion of parliamentary activities and the urgent need for their rationalisation, in particular as regards the activities of the parliamentary organs of the broader-based institutions in relation to those of the restricted Communities;

Drawing the attention of the Committee of Ministers, in this connection, to the possibility that the European Nuclear Energy Agency, to be set up within O.E.E.C., may be granted autonomous powers over which national parliaments would have no control;

Hoping that, again with a view to rationalisation, Member States participating in the Conference on Euratom and the Common Market will not add to the number of existing European Assemblies;

Being desirous that members of the Common Assembly of E.C.S.C., or of the Euratom and Common Market Assemblies should also participate in the delegations to the Consultative Assembly, in order to be present when problems are being dealt with within the wider context of O.E.E.C.;

Noting that these measures carry certain implications regarding the co-ordination of the Secretariats and Clerks Offices;

Resolved to make a detailed study of ways and means of implementing the above-mentioned principles,

Recommends to the Committee of Ministers that the Governments who will be called upon to take decisions in this matter, while bearing in mind the need to provide with a parliamentary organ every European institution which has a specific competence, will ensure that there is no duplication of work among European assemblies.