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Mr Tiny KOX

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Representative
Senator
Socialist Party (SP)

Senate - Eerste Kamer der Staten Generaal
NL - 2500 EA - The Hague
Netherlands

m.j.m.kox@eerstekamer.nl

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2020 , 2019 , 2018

Latest news

25/01/2021 - Monitoring PACE reviews the work of its subsidiary bodies over a whole year 01/11/2020 - Election observation Georgian elections: statement of the international observers 30/04/2020 - Bureau COVID-19: PACE Summer session postponed to a later date 27/04/2020 - Standing Committee COVID-19: Standing Committee meets by videoconference to assess national responses to the pandemic 06/03/2020 - Standing Committee Situation in the Turkey-Greece border: the international community must come together to find solutions, says Tiny Kox

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Chairperson: Group of the Unified European Left since 22/01/2007

In the Assembly

  • since 22/01/2007 Representative-Netherlands
  • from 25/09/2003 to 22/01/2007 Substitute-Netherlands

In the committee(s) and sub-committee(s)

  • General Rapporteur on the budget and intergovernmental programme: Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (since 04/03/2020)
  • Alternate UEL: Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights (since 13/10/2017)
  • Full Member: Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 25/04/2017 to 08/10/2017)
  • Third Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (from 24/01/2017 to 23/01/2018)
  • Ex officio (Rule 19.5 of the Rules of Procedure - Chairpersons of Political Groups): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 04/03/2016)
  • Alternate UEL: Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights (from 30/01/2015 to 28/01/2016)
  • Ex officio (Rule 19.5 of the Rules of Procedure - Chairpersons of Political Groups): Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (since 21/01/2013)
  • Ex officio (Rule 19.5 of the Rules of Procedure - Chairpersons of Political Groups): Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (since 21/01/2013)
  • Ex officio (Rule 19.5 of the Rules of Procedure - Chairpersons of Political Groups): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 21/01/2013)
  • Chairperson of Political Group: Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (from 23/01/2012 to 20/01/2013)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Bureau of the Assembly (from 23/01/2012 to 20/01/2013)
  • Member: (Former) Committee on Culture, Science and Education (from 24/01/2011 to 23/01/2012)
  • Member: (Former) Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men (from 24/01/2011 to 23/01/2012)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Bureau of the Assembly (from 24/01/2011 to 23/01/2012)
  • Member: Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (from 22/01/2007 to 23/01/2012)
  • Chairperson of Political Group: Bureau of the Assembly (since 22/01/2007)
  • Chairperson of Political Group: Standing Committee (since 22/01/2007)
  • Chairperson of Political Group: (Former) Political Affairs Committee / Committee on General Affairs (from 22/01/2007 to 23/01/2012)
  • Chairperson of Political Group: Presidential Committee (since 20/01/2007)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (since 28/01/2020)
  • Chairperson of Political Group: Sub-Committee on Conflicts between Council of Europe Member States (since 23/01/2017)
  • Member: Sub-Committee on Ethics (since 28/01/2016)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 30/01/2014 to 24/01/2018)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 24/01/2013 to 26/01/2014)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on relations with the OECD and the EBRD (from 24/01/2013 to 24/01/2018)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 14/03/2012 to 20/01/2013)
  • Member: Sub-Committee on Sustainable Development (from 22/01/2007 to 23/01/2012)
  • Alternate of Ms Anouchka van MILTENBURG (Full Member): Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 10/10/2016 to 24/04/2017)
  • Alternate of Mr Anne MULDER (Full Member): Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 18/04/2016 to 09/10/2016)
  • Alternate of Mr Malik AZMANI (Full Member): Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 27/11/2015 to 17/04/2016)
  • Alternate of Ms Reinette KLEVER (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 23/01/2012 to 20/01/2013)
  • Alternate of (Member): (Former) Committee on the Environment, Agriculture and Local and Regional Affairs (from 24/01/2011 to 23/01/2012)
  • Alternate of Ms Ankie BROEKERS-KNOL (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Culture, Diversity and Heritage (from 23/01/2012 to 20/01/2013)
  • Alternate of Mr Hans FRANKEN (Vice-Chairperson): Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 14/04/2011 to 23/01/2012)

Interventions

Last speeches

25/01/2021 | 17:21:16 Thank you very much, Mr President. First, my compliments to Mr Michael Aastrup JENSEN for the fact that he wrote this report on behalf of the Monitoring Committee and that he got re-elected. Once again, he did a great job last year, in the last difficult year, and I'm confident he will do a great job this year.  The Monitoring Committee has adopted this report with large support. I compliment the rapporteur for this report as it is an appropriate summary of the report made by our co... 25/01/2021 | 12:33:01 Mr President, the parliamentary elections on 31 October in Georgia took place in times of Covid. This did not only limit the possibilities of the citizens and the authorities in Georgia, but also our election observation mission. We had to skip a pre-electoral visit to Georgia, could only deploy part of our delegation during the election observation and at first we had to postpone, and later to cancel, a post-electoral permission to the country. Nevertheless, Mr President, thanks to the... 20/11/2020 | 14:57:48 Thank you very much and great to see you at least, Mister President, there are in the hemicycle. We all envy you and want to be with you as soon as possible. Let me first compliment ourselves for all the good work done in the past months of this year under your presidency, Mister President, and with tremendous support and hard and creative work of our Secretary General and the whole of this team. My compliments also includes our committees and especially our Committee Chairs and our excellent... 20/11/2020 | 12:18:09 Thank you very much, Mr President. And to follow up all that was said by my colleague Mr Georgios KATROUGKALOS, indeed, I think we all should be very happy that, in times of crisis, our ministers were able to come up with this Athens Declaration, and I think that is of main importance that today our Standing Committee will welcome that statement as well, and to confirm that we agree with the main issues that were mentioned there. I am especially happy that there is a full commitment to both... 31/01/2020 | 12:19:31 Thank you, Mr President. I would like to start to compliment both rapporteurs Mr Stefan SCHENNACH and Ms Reina de BRUIJN-WEZEMAN on their reports on organ transplant tourism and combating trafficking in human tissues and cells. I indeed hope that the Assembly will be able to recommend today to the member states to sign, ratify, and implement relevant global and Council of Europe conventions and to support proposals made in the report to develop binding legal instruments to tackle these...

Activities

Reports and committee opinions

28/01/2020 | Doc. 15050 | Report Challenge, on substantive grounds, of the still unratified credentials of the parliamentary delegation of the Russian Federation 09/04/2019 | Doc. 14863 | Report Role and mission of the Parliamentary Assembly: main challenges for the future 08/01/2018 | Doc. 14465 | Report The honouring of obligations and commitments by Bosnia and Herzegovina 27/09/2017 | Doc. 14406 | Report Defending the acquis of the Council of Europe: preserving 65 years of successful intergovernmental co-operation 26/01/2016 | Doc. 13958 | Report Combating international terrorism while protecting Council of Europe standards and values

Motions, Written Declarations, Questions

04/12/2020 | Doc. 15190 | Written declaration Members of the Parliamentary Assembly ask Iran not to carry out the death penalty of Ahmadreza Djalali 16/11/2020 | Doc. 15184 | Motion for a resolution Review of the partnership for democracy in respect of the Parliament of the Kyrgyz Republic 07/10/2020 | Doc. 15162 | Motion for a resolution The impact of Brexit on human rights on the island of Ireland 01/10/2020 | Doc. 15155 | Motion for a resolution Poisoning of Alexei Navalny 01/09/2020 | Doc. 15130 | Motion for a resolution Call for an inclusive national political process in Belarus

Votes on adopted texts

31/01/2020 | Doc. 15028, vote on the draft text for resolution Democracy hacked? How to respond? 31/01/2020 | Doc. 15029, vote on the draft text for resolution Organ transplant tourism 31/01/2020 | Doc. 15022, vote on the draft text for recommendation Combating trafficking in human tissues and cells 30/01/2020 | Doc. 15020, vote on the draft text for resolution Reported cases of political prisoners in Azerbaijan 30/01/2020 | Doc. 15020, vote on the draft text for recommendation Reported cases of political prisoners in Azerbaijan