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The Assembly Documents
On this website you will find the texts adopted by the parliamentary
assembly , its public working papers ("the Documents") and
the Assembly records.
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Adopted Texts |
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The Assembly can adopt three different types of texts: recommendations,
resolutions and opinions.
- Recommendations contain proposals addressed to the Committee of Ministers,
the implementation of which is within the competence of governments.
- Resolutions embody decisions by the Assembly on questions, which
it is empowered to put into effect or expressions of view, for which
it
alone is responsible.
- Opinions are mostly expressed by the Assembly on questions put to
it by the Committee of Ministers, such as the admission of new member
states
to the Council of Europe, but also on draft conventions, the budget,
the implementation of the Social Charter.
Up to the year 2004, the Assembly also adopted texts called Orders (instructions from the Assembly to one or more of its committees).
This category of texts was then abolished but some of its characteristics
can now form part of Resolutions (see Rule 23 of the Rules of Procedure).
Texts adopted by the Assembly are available on-line in a provisional
version as soon as possible after their adoption. The provisional version
is replaced by a final version some weeks later. The Adopted texts have
been indexed and the full text versions is online
as from 1949.
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Documents, Working Papers |
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These documents are numbered in series preceded by the reference Doc. ….
Some of the main types of document are:
- motions for a recommendation or resolution which have to be tabled
by ten or more members of the Assembly belonging to at least five national
delegations. Motions are then referred to committees for report and
possibly
to other committees for opinion. A report is divided into two parts:
the operational draft resolution, recommendation, opinion or order
and the explanatory memorandum. Both parts are discussed in committee,
but
only the operational part is voted on. When a report has been adopted
in committee it is tabled for discussion by the Assembly either at
a part-session or at a meeting of the Standing Committee.
- written declarations allow members of the Assembly to give formal
expression to their views on matters of European interest. At least
twenty representatives
or substitutes of four nationalities and two political parties must
sign a written declaration. It must not exceed 200 words. If judged
by the
President to be in order, it is printed as an Assembly document and
distributed. If a written declaration receives new signatures before
the opening of
the next part-session it is redistributed.
- questions which take the form of written or oral to the Committee
of Ministers. A written question is circulated as an Assembly document
and
the reply by the Committee of Ministers is later published with the
question as another Assembly document. Members of the Assembly may
put questions
for oral answer to the Chairman-in-office of the Committee of Ministers.
Normally an oral reply to each question is given by the Chairman
of the Committee of Ministers during the presentation of the communication
from
the Committee of Ministers. These questions appear together in a
single document. The replies appear in the sitting report (CR).
Other types of document are:
- communications from the Secretary General
- requests for opinion transmitted by the Committee of Ministers
- progress reports of the Bureau and the Standing Committee
- statutory report on the activities of the Committee of Ministers
The working papers have been indexed from 1949. Full text versions of
the working papers are online as from 1992.
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Verbatim records |
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Official reports of debates (CRs) contain the verbatim speeches in
English or in French in the report compiled in that language and a summary
of its
simultaneous interpretation in the other official language. Thus the
English report contains in extenso the speeches made in English, together
with
a summary in English of the speeches made in French or any other language.
The assembly records are online as from 2000.
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