Rules of Procedure of the Assembly (December 2025)

41.1.a. for the adoption of a draft recommendation or a draft opinion to the Committee of Ministers, for the adoption of urgent procedure, for an alteration to the agenda, for the setting up of a committee, for the fixing of the date for the opening or resumption of ordinary sessions and a decision to dismiss the holder of an elective office, a majority of two thirds of the votes cast.

41.1.b. for the adoption of a draft recommendation on the initiation of a complementary joint procedure between the Committee of Ministers and the Parliamentary Assembly in response to a serious violation by a member State of its statutory obligations, a majority of two thirds of the votes cast and a number of votes in favour equivalent to at least one third of the total number of members of the Assembly authorised to vote;

41.1.c. in respect of appointments, an absolute majority of the votes cast at the first ballot and a relative majority at the second ballot; in the event of a tie-vote between candidates in the second ballot, successive ballots shall be held until one candidate obtains a relative majority;

41.1.d. for the adoption of a draft resolution and for any other decision, a majority of the votes cast in the case of a tie the question being rejected.