02/10/2024 | Session
Following a request addressed to the President of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) by the Public Prosecutor General and Minister of Justice of the Republic of Poland, the Assembly today decided to waive the immunity of PACE member Marcin Romanowski (Poland, EC/DA) “to allow...
24/06/2024 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly today decided to amend its Rules of Procedure, recalling that it has regularly made such modifications in recent years in order “to accommodate changes in parliamentary practice, clarify the rules and procedures where their application or interpretation have raised...
29/04/2022 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
The Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), meeting today in Strasbourg, approved and made public a report on a complaint against Rosianne Cutajar (Malta, SOC) concerning alleged breaches of the Code of...
03/11/2021 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
The PACE Rules Committee considered on 2 November the complaint against former Assembly member Rosianne Cutajar (Malta, SOC) regarding alleged violations of the Code of Conduct for members of the Parliamentary Assembly. The committee examined the allegations and decided, despite Ms Cutajar's...
03/11/2021 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
PACE’s Rules Committee has proposed to revise the Assembly’s Code of Conduct for members to explicitly prohibit “sexism, harassment and sexual violence and misconduct”, and has outlined a procedure for investigating any cases of this behaviour. Approving a report by Thorhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir...
14/09/2021 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
PACE's Rules Committee has proposed a set of clear and objective criteria enabling the privileges and immunities granted to Assembly members to “serve their institutional purpose, while preventing the possible misuse of privileges by parliamentarians for personal purposes”. The 70-year-old system...
08/09/2021 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
At its meeting held in Strasbourg today in hybrid mode, the Committee on Rules of Procedure made a set of proposals to promote gender balance in the Assembly by amending its Rules of Procedure. With regard to the composition of national delegations, the report by Nicole Trisse (France, ALDE...
03/11/2020 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
Recalling that the Assembly’s decisions should be based on clear and effective parliamentary rules, the Committee on Rules of Procedure has proposed to amend PACE’s Rules to reflect changes in parliamentary practice and to clarify procedures where their application or interpretation has raised...
03/11/2020 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
In light of the situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, PACE’s Rules Committee has proposed modifications to the Rules of Procedure to enable the Assembly to hold remote or hybrid plenary sessions in exceptional circumstances. Approving a report by Frank Schwabe (Germany, SOC), the committee...
06/03/2020 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
The committee proposed to amend the Assembly's Rules of Procedure to enable the implementation of a complementary joint procedure between the Committee of Ministers and the Parliamentary Assembly in response to a serious violation by a member State of its statutory obligations.
04/03/2020 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
Parliamentarians from Sweden, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Austria voted most often in plenary debates of the PACE during 2019, according to statistics made public today.
06/09/2019 | Rules, Ethics and Immunities
A new report has listed the follow-up given by PACE’s Rules Committee to the conclusions and recommendations of the Independent Investigation Body which looked into allegations of corruption within the Assembly.