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Progress report | Doc. 13668 Addendum III | 30 January 2015
Activities of the Assembly’s Bureau and Standing Committee (30 January 2015)
1. Decisions of the Bureau of 30 January 2015 requiring ratification by the Assembly
1.1. References and transmissions to committees
The Bureau considered and approved the following references to committees:
- Doc. 13653, motion for a resolution, The relations of the Council of Europe with Kazakhstan, reference to the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy for report;
- Doc. 13682, motion for a resolution, Missing persons during the conflict in Ukraine, reference to the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons for report;
- Doc. 13700, motion for a resolution, Legal remedies to human rights violations on the Ukrainian territories outside the control of the Ukrainian authorities, reference to the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights for report;
- Doc. 13560, motion for a resolution, Parliamentary scrutiny over corruption: parliamentary co-operation with investigative media, after consultation, reference to the Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media for report;
- Bureau decision, Reconsideration of sanctions in respect of the delegation of the Russian Federation to the Parliamentary Assembly (follow-up to paragraph 15 of Resolution 2034 (2015)), to the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) for report (to be debated during the April 2015 part-session).
1.2. Composition of the Monitoring Committee
On the basis of proposals by the political groups, the Bureau appointed Mr Zsolt Németh (Hungary, EPP/CD) replacing Mr Gergely Gulyás (Hungary, EPP/CD), Ms Sirkka-Liisa Anttila (Finland, ALDE) replacing Baroness Emma Nicholson (United Kingdom, ALDE), Ms Marieluise Beck (Germany, ALDE) et Mr Matjaž Hanžek (Slovenia, UEL) replacing Mr Ivan Melnikov (Russian Federation).
1.3. Composition of the Committee on the election of judges to the European Court of Human Rights
On the basis of proposals by the political groups, the Bureau appointed Mr José María Beneyto (Spain, EPP/CD), Ms Yuliya L'Ovochkina (Ukraine, EC) and Mr Tiny Kox (Netherlands, UEL).