19/11/2025 | Transparency and Integrity
In the margins of its meeting on 13 November in Limassol, Cyprus, the PACE Committee on Rules, Ethics and Immunities held a round table on 14 November, together with the Standing Committee of the House of Representatives on Institutions, Merit and the Ombudsmen of Cyprus. The meeting opened with...
20/10/2025 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
As part of a project funded by Germany to strengthen integrity and ethical standards in parliaments across Council of Europe member states, the Committee on Rules, Ethics and Immunities, in co-operation with the OSCE-ODIHR, organised a study visit for a delegation from the National Assembly of...
15/09/2025 | Transparency and Integrity
As part of a project, funded by Germany, to strengthen ethical and integrity standards in parliaments across Council of Europe member states, the Committee on Rules, Ethics and Immunities, in co-operation with the OSCE-ODIHR, co-organised a study visit to the Houses of Parliament in London on 9...
09/04/2025 | Session
PACE has called for more action to develop “an ethical culture” within the Council of Europe – and has reinforced its own rules on ethics and anti-corruption. Adopting a resolution based on a report by Frank Schwabe (Germany, SOC), the Assembly recalled the corruption scandal linked to Azerbaijan...
01/04/2025 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
As part of a project to enhance ethical standards within the Parliamentary Assembly and across the parliaments of member states, funded by Germany, the Committee on Rules of Procedure organised a round table at the House of Commons in London on 31 March, bringing together members of the committee...
29/04/2022 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
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 of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
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 of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
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...
27/06/2018 | Transparency and Integrity
The PACE Committee on Rules of Procedure has found that fourteen former members of the Assembly named in the report of the Independent Investigation Body looking into allegations of corruption within the Assembly have breached its Code of Conduct, and ruled that they should be deprived of the...
16/05/2018 | Transparency and Integrity
The PACE Committee on Rules of Procedure has found that four individual members named in the report of the Independent Investigation Body looking into allegations of corruption within the Assembly have “seriously breached” its Code of Conduct, and ruled that all four should be temporarily...
09/05/2018 | Transparency and Integrity
At a meeting in Paris, the PACE Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs will hold a hearing (in camera) of some of the PACE members mentioned in the report of the Independent Investigation Body on the allegations of corruption within the Assembly. The agenda will...
26/04/2018 | Transparency and Integrity
Strasbourg, 26.04.2018 - The Assembly intends to draw all the necessary consequences, on all levels, from the conclusions of the investigation body on corruption allegations within PACE, “which are now indisputable”. This applies to recommendations aimed at improving its general operating...