Committees
Rule 50Reports of committees
50.1.a. A
committee shall appoint one rapporteur for each subject, who shall
be responsible for the preparation of the report of the committee
and for presenting it to the Assembly. The Monitoring Committee
shall appoint two co-rapporteurs.
50.1.b. For the appointment of rapporteurs,
the committees shall take into consideration the following criteria
by order of priority:
- competence
and availability,
- fair representation of political
groups (based on the D’Hondt method),
- gender-balanced representation,
- geographical and national
balance.
A committee shall include at least one third of each sex among
its rapporteurs, whilst striving for equal representation between
men and women.
50.1.c. No member may be appointed
to prepare more than three reports simultaneously, excluding reports
prepared in the Monitoring Committee, under the urgent procedure, opinions
on the reports of other committees and those for which the chairperson
of a committee is required to act as rapporteur. No member may hold
more than one general or youth rapporteurship at any one time.
50.1.d. In the exercise of their
duties, the rapporteurs shall comply with the rules set forth in the
code of conduct for rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly.
50.1.e. A rapporteur shall remain
in charge of the follow-up to his or her report for a term of one
year after the adoption of the text by the Assembly.
50.2. The
report of a committee shall normally contain one or more draft texts:
- recommendations
or opinions addressed to the Committee of Ministers;
Only these texts may be voted upon
in committee, and the results of such votes shall be included in
the report. Only these texts may be voted upon by the Assembly or
the Standing Committee.
50.3. A committee
seized for an opinion on the report of another committee may submit
its opinion in writing or orally.
If
in writing it should contain a chapter at the beginning entitled “Conclusions
of the committee”, and an explanatory memorandum by the rapporteur.
50.4. The
report of a committee shall contain an explanatory memorandum by
the rapporteur. A report prepared under the urgent procedure should
contain an explanatory memorandum only if it relates to a statutory
opinion. The committee shall take note of the explanatory memorandum.
Any dissenting opinions expressed in the committee shall be included
therein at the request of their authors, preferably in the body
of the explanatory memorandum, but otherwise in an appendix.
50.5. The
adoption of the draft text and taking note of the explanatory memorandum
shall constitute the committee’s approval of the report as a whole.
Any report thus approved shall be tabled and published as an official
Assembly document. If, after the tabling of a report, important
developments occur, the committee may approve an addendum to it.
50.6. Committees
may table information reports, which shall not be subject to a vote
in the Assembly.
50.7. Committees
may appoint one or more general rapporteurs, whose terms of reference they
shall determine beforehand, with no more than four general rapporteurs
per committee. A chairperson of a committee may not simultaneously
hold the position of general rapporteur of that committee. The terms
of reference shall be submitted to the Bureau for approval and its
decision shall be subject to ratification by the Assembly. A general
rapporteur shall be appointed for a mandate of two years, renewable
a maximum of once. The appointment of a general rapporteur is subject
to the criteria set out in Rule 50.1.
50.8. All general committees (other
than the Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court
of Human Rights) may appoint one youth rapporteur, whose role is
to present a youth perspective, as relevant, in discussions on reports
for which that committee is seized for report. A youth rapporteur
for a given committee shall be appointed for a mandate of two years, renewable
a maximum of once for that committee. The appointment of a youth
rapporteur is subject to the same criteria for appointment as set
out in Rule 50.1, with the additional criterion of seeking to encourage
young members of the Assembly to take on such roles.
