Additional
provisions relating to Assembly debates
(adopted by the Bureau of the Assembly on 25 March 2002 and
17 December 2007)
iv.Speaking time
1. Speakers registered
for a debate, including youth rapporteurs, shall have three minutes’ speaking
time, unless the Bureau decides at the start of the part-session,
owing to a high number of registered speakers for a particular debate,
to reduce speaking time for that debate to two minutes. Speakers
on behalf of the political groups shall have three minutes’ speaking
time.
2. Rapporteurs shall
have a total of ten minutes, of which, indicatively, seven minutes
for the presentation of the report and three minutes for the reply
at the end of the debate. The co-rapporteurs of the Monitoring Committee
shall have five minutes each to present their report and five minutes
to reply, to be shared between them.
Rapporteurs may, after the first round
of speakers on behalf of the political groups, request the floor
to reply; this speaking time shall be deducted from the time of
reply at the end of the debate.
3. Rapporteurs for
opinion shall have the same speaking time to present the opinion
as the speakers registered for the debate concerned. Rapporteurs
of the Bureau ad hoc committees on the observation of elections
shall have five minutes to present the report.
4. For the chairpersons
of committees submitting a report, the time for reply shall be three minutes
or two minutes if the speaking time has been reduced to two minutes
for the other speakers.
5. For statements
concerning an amendment or a procedural motion, thirty seconds.
