Rules of Procedure of the Assembly (January 2023)
(Resolution 1202 (1999) adopted on 4 November 1999) with subsequent modifications of the Rules of Procedure* ![* Resolutions 1220 (2000),
1234 (2000), 1235 (2000), 1266 (2001), 1275 (2002), 1284 (2002),
1296 (2002), 1325 (2003), 1343 (2003), 1348 (2003), 1356 (2003),
1368 (2004), 1369 (2004), 1379 (2004), 1395 (2004), 1431 (2005),
1432 (2005), 1445 (2005), 1447 (2005), 1448 (2005), 1490 (2006),
1491 (2006), 1503 (2006), 1504 (2006), 1515 (2006), 1529 (2006),
1554 (2007), 1583 (2007), 1584 (2007), 1585 (2007), 1658 (2009),
1698 (2009), 1699 (2009), 1712 (2010), 1780 (2010), 1799 (2011),
1841 (2011), 1842 (2011), 1854 (2011), 1903 (2012), 1911 (2012),
1937 (2013), 1965 (2013), 2002 (2014), 2058 (2015), 2102 (2016),
2169 (2017), 2182 (2017), 2208 (2018), 2278 (2019), 2287 (2019),
2349 (2020), 2350 (2020), 2360 (2021), 2392 (2021), 2405 (2021)<br><br>Wherever used herein, the masculine form refers to both women and men, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. The words "President", "Vice-President", "Secretary General", "Representative", "Substitute", "chairperson", etc. refer to persons of both sexes.](http://assembly.coe.int/nw/images/icon_FootnoteCall.png)
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Rule 21 - Vice-Presidents
21.1. The duties of the President,
as set out in Part V, may be discharged by one of the Vice- Presidents. ![The occupant of the Chair may at any time invite a member
of the Bureau or, if none is available, any representative to take the
Chair for a period of not more than twenty minutes. Such temporary
chairperson shall exercise the powers and shall be subject to the
obligations set out in Part V, save that he or she may speak in
a debate for part of which he or she has taken the Chair (see Progress
Report of the Bureau and the Standing Committee, Doc. 6543, of which
the Assembly took note on 3 February 1992).](http://assembly.coe.int/nw/images/icon_FootnoteCall.png)
![The occupant of the Chair may at any time invite a member
of the Bureau or, if none is available, any representative to take the
Chair for a period of not more than twenty minutes. Such temporary
chairperson shall exercise the powers and shall be subject to the
obligations set out in Part V, save that he or she may speak in
a debate for part of which he or she has taken the Chair (see Progress
Report of the Bureau and the Standing Committee, Doc. 6543, of which
the Assembly took note on 3 February 1992).](http://assembly.coe.int/nw/images/icon_FootnoteCall.png)
21.2. The functions of a Vice-President
are to replace the President when the latter is unavailable during
a debate of the Assembly at one of its part-sessions. A Vice-President
may furthermore be called upon by the President to fulfil certain
representational obligations of the President.