iv.Extract
from the reply of the Committee of Ministers to Recommendation 1344 (1997)
of the Parliamentary Assembly on enlargement of the Council of Europe:
the budgetary and administrative powers of the Assembly (Doc. 8080)
“… the formal document by the Secretary
General of the Council of Europe on budgetary prospects and proposal
for the ceiling [of the Council’s budget] should be transmitted
for information to the Assembly’s Sub-Committee on the Budget (of
the Committee on Economic Affairs and Development) and […] that
there should be an exchange of views with the Assembly before the
final decision on the budgetary ceiling …
Concerning the proposed mechanism for
direct consultation with the Assembly concerning Vote III of the
ordinary budget, the Committee of Ministers believes that it is
necessary to hold regular consultations of the kind envisaged in
the preceding paragraph in order to discuss all issues of common
interest in the budgetary and administrative fields.”
