Improving the impact of the activities of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

Order 450 (1989)

Author(s):

Parliamentary Assembly

Origin

Assembly debate on 25 September 1989 (15th Sitting) (see Doc. 6102, report of the Committee on Parliamentary and Public Relations, Rapporteur : Mr Büchner). Text adopted by the Assembly on 25 September 1989 (15th Sitting).

Thesaurus

The Assembly

1. Instructs the committees :

a to draw up Assembly reports according to the following criteria :

1.1.1 on the front page : the theme, the Rapporteur's name, his or her country and political party, a brief text containing a statement of the problem and suggested solutions, cost implications, the reporting committee, the committee(s) seized for opinion ;

1.1.2 the names of those voting in the committee should be on the back page rather than on the front page as at present ;

1.1.3 the texts to be adopted will follow on a new page after ‘‘Problem and proposed solutions''. They should be as concise as possible and written in a comprehensible and straightforward way ;

1.1.4 the explanatory memorandum should be a short political memorandum/argument. The wording must be easily understood by non-specialists ;

b to develop relations with journalists by opening meetings to them as often as possible ;

c to develop closer co-operation with NGOs ;

2. Instructs the Committee on Rules of Procedure to review rules concerning the form of reports, taking account of Document 6102;

3. Instructs the Bureau of the Assembly to make debates with ministers more constructive by offering more possibilities of question and answer.