Organisation of Assembly business
Rule 26Reference
to committee
26.1. The
Bureau shall reach a decision on all documents mentioned in Rule 24.2.c.
. and, if appropriate,
h., if necessary after consulting one or more committees, and may
decide that the documents shall be referred to one or more committees,
forwarded to one or more committees for information, or that no
further action be taken. A document forwarded for information may not
give rise to a committee report to the Assembly.
26.2. The Bureau may refer a specific
matter to a committee for a report to the Assembly, particularly
as part of the action to be taken on an adopted text, provided that
the matter has not already been referred to it.
26.3. The
Bureau shall submit these decisions for ratification as soon as
possible, either by the Assembly or the Standing Committee. These
decisions shall become available to members through the Progress
Report of the Bureau and the Standing Committee or in a separate
document. Rule 33.5.
, second
and third sentences, shall apply
mutatis mutandis.
A document may be referred to only one committee for report, though
it may be referred to any other committee for an opinion. If a draft
report adopted by a committee proposes any amendments to the European Convention
on Human Rights, the Bureau shall request an opinion from the Committee
on Legal Affairs and Human Rights on this draft report.
26.4. A
reference to committee shall lapse in two years or, at the request
of the committee concerned, by a decision of the Assembly. References
to the Monitoring Committee for periodic review, as defined in paragraph
8 of the terms of reference of the Assembly Committee on the Honouring
of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of
Europe (Monitoring Committee), shall lapse after three years.
