Examination of credentials of representatives and substitutes

Report on credentials | Doc. 11566 | 12 April 2008

Thesaurus

1. In accordance with Rule 6, paragraphs 1 and 3, of the Rules of Procedure, the President of the Assembly has received the credentials of Representatives and Substitutes for the second part of the 2008 Ordinary Session of the Assembly, which have been transmitted in due form by the competent authorities of member states.

2. The Assembly is called upon to express its decision on the ratification of the credentials of the Representatives and Substitutes whose names are given below.

3. Following the departure of Mr Bartumeu Cassany, Andorra has appointed one new Substitute to replace Mr Alay Ferrer, who has become a Representative.

4. Belgium has appointed two new Substitutes to replace Mr Leterme, appointed Prime Minister, and Mr Leyman, who has resigned.

5. Following parliamentary elections, Croatia has appointed a new delegation.

6. Following parliamentary elections, Monaco has appointed one new Substitute to replace Mr SpiliotisSaquet.

7. Following parliamentary elections, the Russian Federation has partially renewed its delegation.

8. The United Kingdom has appointed three new Substitutes to replace Mr Marshall, Mrs Smith, and Baroness Taylor of Bolton; Mr Austin, Substitute has become a Representative.

9. In the case of objection or justified challenge, the challenged credentials shall be referred without debate to the appropriate committee which shall report to the Assembly, in accordance with Rules 7 and 8 of the Rules of Procedure.

1 Andorra

1.1 Representative

Mr Vicenç Alay Ferrer, Social démocrate

1.2 Substitute

Mrs Maria Pilar Riba Font, Social démocrate

2 Belgium

2.1 Substitutes

Mr Jan Jambon, CD&V–N-VA

Mr Hugo Vandenberghe, CD&V–N-VA

3 Croatia

3.1 Representatives

Mr Miljenko Dorić, Croatian Peoples’s Party Mrs Mirjana Ferić-Vac, Social Democratic Party Mr Frano Matušić, Croatian Democratic Union Mrs Marijana Petir, Croatian Peasant’s Party

Mr Milorad Pupovac, Representative of the National Minorities

3.2 Substitutes

Mrs Karmela Caparin, Croatian Democratic Union Mr Gvozden Srećko Flego, Social Democratic Party Mr Mirando Mrsić, Social Democratic Party

Mrs Marija Pejčinović-Burić, Croatian Democratic Union

Mr Mario Zubović, Croatian Democratic Union

4 Monaco

4.1 Substitute

Mr Christophe Steiner, REM

5 Russian Federation

5.1 Representatives

Mr Alexander Babakov, Just Russia Mr Igor Chernyshenko, United Russia Mr Umar Dzhabrailov, United Russia Mr Valeriy Fedorov, United Russia Mrs Svetlana Goryacheva, Just Russia Mr Anatoliy Korobeynikov, Fair Russia

Mr Konstantin Kosachev, United Russia Mr Mikhail Margelov, United Russia Mr Ivan Melnikov, Communist Party

Mr Alexey Ostrovsky, Liberal Democratic Party of Russia

Mr Viktor Pleskachevskiy, United Russia Mr Yuri Sharandin, United Russia

Mr Leonid Slutsky, Liberal Democratic Mr Sergey Sobko, Communist Party Mr Valeriy Sudarenkov

Mr Vyacheslav Timchenko, Liberal Democratic Party of Russia

Mr Ilyas Umakhanov, United Russia

Mr Guennady Ziuganov, Communist Party

5.2 Substitutes

Mr Farkhad Akhmedov

Mr Alexey Ivanovich Aleksandrov, United Russia Mrs Natalia Burykina, United Russia

Mr Arsen Fadzaev, United Russia Mr Yury Isaev, United Russia

Mrs Svetlana Khorkina, United Russia

Mr Ruslan Kondratov, United Russia Mr Oleg Lebedev, United Russia Mr Sergey Markov, United Russia Mr Oleg Panteleev, United Russia Mr Valery Parfenov

Mr Ivan Savvidi, United Russia Mr Yury Solonin, United Russia Mr Nikolay Tulaev, United Russia

Mrs Tatiana Volozhinskaya, Liberal Democratic Party of Russia

Mr Dmitry Vyatkin, United Russia Mr Yury Zelenskiy, United Russia

Mr Vladimir Zhidkikh

6 United Kingdom

6.1 Representative

Mr John Austin, Labour

6.2 Substitutes

Mrs Ann Clwyd, Labour Baroness Anita Gale, Labour Mr Jim Hood, Labour