Length of term of office and re-eligibility of committee chairpersons
- Author(s):
- Parliamentary Assembly
- Origin
- Text
adopted by the Standing Committee, acting on behalf of
the Assembly, on 31 May 2013 (see Doc. 13219, report of the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities
and Institutional Affairs, rapporteur: Mr Gross).
- Thesaurus
1. The bureaux of Parliamentary Assembly
committees are elected at the first meeting of the committees in
each ordinary session, during the January part-session of the Assembly,
on the basis of an agreement reached between the political groups,
for the duration of the session up to the opening of the next annual session.
2. The Assembly considers it expedient to forestall the problems
that might arise if a committee chair or vice-chair is vacated during
the year, particularly where a chairperson or vice-chairperson forfeits
his or her membership of the Assembly following national parliamentary
elections. For this purpose, it thinks that a former chairperson
or vice-chairperson, who thus has experience of the post, could
reasonably be permitted to stand for re-election in order to complete
the remainder of the term of office. It considers nonetheless that
the proposed amendment of the Rules of Procedure does not apply
to sub-committees.
3. Accordingly, the Assembly decides to amend its Rules of Procedure
by adding to Rule 45.7 in fine the following
sentence: “If a committee chair or vice-chair falls vacant in the
course of a session, a former chairperson or vice-chairperson of
that committee who has served two complete terms may be elected
for an incomplete term until the end of that session.”
4. The Assembly decides that the amendments to the Rules of Procedure
set out in this resolution shall enter into force upon their adoption.
