Rule 9Reconsideration
of previously ratified credentials on substantive grounds
9.1. The Assembly
may reconsider ratified credentials of a national delegation as
a whole in the course of the same ordinary session either:
9.1.a. on a motion for
a resolution to annul ratification based on the grounds set out
in Rule , or
9.1.b. on the basis of
a report by the Monitoring Committee containing a text which recommends
that the credentials be reconsidered.
9.2. A motion
for a resolution to annul ratification shall be tabled by at least
fifty representatives or substitutes, belonging to at least two
political groups and five national delegations, and be distributed at least
two weeks before the opening of a part-session or a meeting of the
Standing Committee. The list of signatories may not include more
members of a delegation than the number of seats held by that delegation
in the Assembly. The motion for a resolution shall state the reasons
for it. Once tabled, a motion cannot be withdrawn by its authors
and no signature may be withdrawn or added to it. It shall be referred
without debate to the appropriate committee for report and to the
Committee on Rules, Ethics and Immunities for opinion. It may be
referred, if necessary, to other committees for opinion. The committee
shall report within twenty-four hours if possible and the Assembly
shall consider it as soon as possible. These deadlines do not apply
to the Standing Committee.
9.3. The
Monitoring Committee may, in a report foreseen on the agenda of
the Assembly or on the agenda of the Standing Committee, call into
question the credentials of a national delegation. Such a report
shall, before being discussed by the Assembly or the Standing Committee,
be referred to the Committee on Rules, Ethics and Immunities for
opinion.
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