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Rules of Procedure of the Assembly (December 2025)

(Resolution 1202 (1999) adopted on 4 November 1999) with subsequent modifications of the Rules of Procedure*

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Committees

Rule 45Competence of committees

45.1. Committees shall examine documents referred to them under Rule 26 and questions otherwise referred to them by the Assembly or the Standing Committee. They may draw up a report, or an information report, for presentation to the Assembly or to the Standing Committee in accordance with Rule 50, merge references, or take no action on a reference. In the last two cases, they shall inform the Bureau accordingly. They may examine any other matter within their terms of reference.
45.2. Committees shall examine the action taken on texts adopted by the Assembly on the basis of their reports.
45.3. Should a committee declare a question to be outside its terms of reference, or should a conflict arise over the competence of two or more committees, the question shall be submitted to the Bureau for decision which may refer it to the Assembly.
45.4. A committee requested to give an opinion on a matter which has been referred to another committee for report may table amendments to the draft text tabled by the latter committee, in the manner specified in Rule 34.