03/06/2019 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
The Rules Committee welcomes the Committee of Ministers' support for the Assembly's proposal to set up a joint reaction procedure in situations where a member State violates its statutory obligations.
12/04/2019 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
Parliamentarians from Andorra, Liechtenstein, Sweden and Norway voted most often in plenary debates of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) during 2018, according to statistics.
21/03/2019 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
The Council of Europe should step up political co-ordination with the EU while retaining its “primacy” in assessing both EU and non-EU states’ respect for common fundamental values, PACE’s Rules Committee said.
21/03/2019 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
The Rules Committe proposed that PACE amend various provisions of its Rules, to accommodate the changes in parliamentary practice, drawing on discussions in the Ad hoc Committee of the Bureau on the role and mission of PACE.
10/12/2018 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
In the event of a challenge to the credentials of a national delegation, the Parliamentary Assembly may not question the right of Assembly members to take part in the election of senior Council of Europe officials.
20/09/2018 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
The Committee on Rules of Procedure proposes to amend some of the Assembly's Rules on challenges to the credentials of national delegations, including as regards the majorities required.
03/09/2018 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
The Rules Committee has appointed Petra De Sutter to prepare a report covering “proposals relating to the challenge or reconsideration of credentials and to representation and participation rights of national delegations”.
09/03/2018 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
The committee has proposed to the PACE to remove Turkish from PACE’s list of working languages. According to the committee, “the draconian reduction” of the Assembly’s budget for 2018 and 2019 “calls for drastic measures”.
01/03/2018 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
Parliamentarians from Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Sweden and Andorra voted most often in plenary debates of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly during 2017, according to statistics made public.
21/09/2017 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
The Committee on Rules of Procedure welcomed the prospect of a future CoE Summit of Heads of State or Government in order to revitalise democracy, the rule of law and human rights, values which today are severely “under pressure”.
05/07/2017 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
Parliamentarians from Andorra, Switzerland and Sweden voted most often in plenary debates of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly during 2016, according to statistics made public today.
08/06/2017 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
The Committee on Rules of Procedure today made public a draft resolution on the “Recognition and implementation of the principle of accountability in the Parliamentary Assembly”, adopted at its meeting in Paris on 2 June.