ORDER OF BUSINESS
of the second part of the 2004 Ordinary Session
(26-30 April 2004)adopted by the Assembly on 26 April 2004
Strasbourg, 26 April 2004
( 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 April 2004)
8.30 a.m. Bureau of the Assembly
10 a.m. Political groups
2 p.m. Committees
3 p.m. 1. Opening of the second part of the 2004 Ordinary Session
a. Examination of new credentials (Doc. 10145)
b. Election of Vice-Presidents of the Assembly with respect to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia
c. Changes in the membership of Committees (Commissions (2004) 4 +Corr.)
d. Requests for debate under urgent procedure on:
- the new Dutch policy on asylum seekers
- the situation in Kosovo
- Cyprus - Armenia e. Adoption of the order of business
f. Adoption of the minutes of the meeting of the Standing Committee (2 March 2004, Paris) (AS/PER (2004) PV 1)
2. Progress report of the Bureau of the Assembly and the Standing Committee (Doc. 10146 Part I and Part II)
Rapporteur: Mr Tony Lloyd (United Kingdom, SOC)
a.
Observation of the presidential elections in the Russian Federation (14 March 2004) (Doc. 10150)
Rapporteur: Mr Rudolf Bindig (Germany, SOC)
b.
Observation of the parliamentary elections in Georgia (28 March 2004) (Doc. 10151)
Rapporteur: Mr Mátyás Eörsi (Hungary, LDR)
Debate
3. A European Migration Observatory / Agency (Doc. 10108)
Rapporteur of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population: Mr Tadeusz Iwiński (Poland, SOC)
Deadline for tabling amendments: Monday 26 April at 12 noon.
Debate
Vote on a draft Recommendation
4a.
Budgets of the Council of Europe for the financial year 2005 (Doc. 10129)
Rapporteur of the Committee on Economic Affairs and Development: Mr Ján Figel' (Slovakia, EPP/CD)
Deadline for tabling amendments: Monday 26 April at 12 noon.
4b.
Expenditure of the Parliamentary Assembly for the financial year 2005 (Doc. 10130)
Rapporteur of the Committee on Economic Affairs and Development: Mr Ján Figel' (Slovakia, EPP/CD)
Deadline for tabling amendments: Monday 26 April at 12 noon.
Joint debate
Vote on two draft Opinions
7 p.m.
End of the sitting
8.30 a.m. Committees
10 a.m. 1. The Principality of Monaco's application for membership of the Council of Europe (Doc. 10128)
Rapporteur of the Political Affairs Committee: Mr Leonid Slutsky (Russia, SOC)
Rapporteur of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (for opinion) (Doc. 10138): Mr Andrea Manzella (Italy, SOC)
Deadline for tabling amendments: Monday 26 April at 4 p.m.
Debate
Vote on a draft Opinion
Statement by Mr Stéphane VALÉRI, President of the National Council of Monaco
12 noon 2. Address by Mr Ivo SANADER, Prime Minister of Croatia
Questions
1 p.m. End of the sitting
Committees
3 p.m. 1. Statement by Mr Nurtay ABIKAYEV, Speaker of the Senate of Kazakhstan
2. Contested credentials of the parliamentary delegation of Serbia and Montenegro (Doc. 10155)
Rapporteur of the Political Affairs Committee: Mr Roman Jakić, (Slovenia, LDR) Rapporteur of the Committee on Rules of Procedure and Immunities (for opinion) : Mr Serhiy Holovaty (Ukraine, LDR) Deadline for tabling amendments: Tuesday 27 April at 12 noon
Debate
Vote on a draft Resolution
3. Euthanasia (Doc. 9898)
Rapporteur of the Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee: Mr Dick Marty (Switzerland, LDR)
Rapporteur of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (for opinion) (Doc. 9923): Mr Kevin McNamara (United Kingdom, SOC)
Deadline for tabling amendments: Monday 26 April at 4 p.m.
Debate
Vote on a draft Resolution[1]
4. Situation of European prisons and pre-trial detention centres (Doc. 10097)
Rapporteur of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights: Mr Michel Hunault (France, EPP/CD)
Deadline for tabling amendments: Monday 26 April at 4 p.m.
Debate
Vote on a draft Recommendation
7 p.m. End of the sitting
8.30 a.m.
Political groups
10 a.m.
Election of judges to the European Court of Human Rights (Doc. 10099 + Corr. + Add.)
(from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.)
1a.
Disappeared persons in Belarus (Doc. 10062)
Rapporteur of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights: Mr Christos Pourgourides (Cyprus, EPP/CD)
Deadline for tabling amendments: Tuesday 27 April at 10 a.m.
1b.
Persecution of the press in the Republic of Belarus (Doc. 10107)
Rapporteur of the Political Affairs Committee: Mr Christos Pourgourides (Cyprus, EPP/CD)
Rapporteur of the Committee on Culture, Science and Education (for opinion) (Doc. 10165): Mrs Christine Muttonen (Austria, SOC)
Deadline for tabling amendments: Tuesday 27 April at 10 a.m.
Joint debate
Vote on two draft Resolutions
Vote on two draft Recommendations
2.
Strengthening of the United Nations (Doc. 10120)
Rapporteur of the Political Affairs Committee: Mrs Tana de Zulueta (Italy, SOC)
Deadline for tabling amendments: Tuesday 27 April at 10 a.m.
Debate
Vote on a draft Resolution
Vote on a draft Recommendation
1 p.m.
End of the sitting
2 p.m.
Committees
3 p.m. 1. Draft Protocol No. 14 to the European Convention for the protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, amending the control system of the Convention (Doc. 10137 + Doc. 10147)
Rapporteur of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights: Mr Kevin McNamara (United Kingdom, SOC)
Rapporteur of the Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men (for Opinion) (Doc: 10162):
Deadline for tabling amendments: Tuesday 27 April at 3 p.m.
Debate
Vote on a draft Opinion
4 p.m.
2.
Communication from the Committee of Ministers to the Parliamentary Assembly presented by Mr Bernard BOT, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and Chairman of the Committee of Ministers
Communication on the activities of the Committee of Ministers Statutary report Questions (Doc. 10154)
(Questions must be tabled by Monday 26 April at 7 p.m. at the latest)
5.15 p.m.
3.
Address by Mr Jan Peter BALKENENDE, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Questions
6.15 p.m.
4.
Debate under urgent procedure: Armenia (Doc. 10163)
Co-Rapporteurs of the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee): Mr René André, (France, EPP), and Mr Jerzy Jaskiernia, (Poland, SOC)
Deadline for tabling amendments: Wednesday 28 April at 11 a.m.
Debate
Vote on a draft Resolution
7.30 p.m.
End of the sitting
* If the urgent procedure is decided by the Assembly.
8 a.m. Committees
9.30 a.m. [Possibly 2nd round] Election of judges to the European Court of Human Rights (Doc. 10099 + Corr. + Add.) (from 9.30 a.m. to 12 noon)
1. Debate under urgent procedure: Situation in Kosovo (Doc. 10157)
Rapporteur of the Political Affairs Committee: Mr Tony Lloyd (United Kingdom, SOC)
Rapporteur of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (for opinion): M. Ionel Olteanu (Romania, SOC)
Rapporteur of the Committee on Culture, Science and Education (for opinion) (Doc. 10170): Mr Edward O’Hara, (United Kingdom, SOC)
Deadline for tabling amendments: Wednesday 28 April at 12 noon.
Statement by Mr Harri HOLKERI, Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Kosovo
Debate
Vote on a draft Resolution
Vote on a draft Recommendation
12 noon 2. Address by Mr Ilham ALIYEV, President of Azerbaijan
Questions
1 p.m. End of the sitting
2 p.m. Committees
3 p.m.
1.
Debate under urgent procedure: Cyprus (Doc. 10161)
Rapporteur of the Political Affairs Committee: Mr Mátyás Eörsi (Hungary, LDR)
Rapporteur of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (for opinion) (Doc. 10164): Mr Erik Jurgens, (Netherlands, SOC) Deadline for tabling amendments: Tuesday 27 April at 7 p.m.
Debate
Vote on a draft Resolution
2. Honouring of obligations and commitments by Albania (Doc. 10116)
Co-Rapporteurs of the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee): Mr Jerzy Smorawiński (Poland, EPP/CD) and Mr Sřren Sřndergaard (Denmark, UEL)
Deadline for tabling amendments: Wednesday 28 April at 3 p.m.
Debate
Vote on a draft Resolution
6.30 p.m. End of the sitting
6.30 p.m. Joint Committee
8 p.m. Presidential Committee
* If the urgent procedure is decided by the Assembly.
8.30 a.m. Bureau of the Assembly
8.30 a.m. Committees 10 a.m. 1. Draft additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, on biomedical research (Doc. 9924 + Doc. 10121)
Rapporteur of the Committee on Culture, Science and Education: Mrs Majléne Westerlund Panke (Sweden, SOC)
Rapporteur of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (for opinion) (Doc. ): Mr József Gedei (Hungary, SOC)
Rapporteur of the Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee (for opinion) (Doc. 10126): Mr Claude Evin (France, SOC)
Deadline for tabling amendments: Thursday 29 April at 10 a.m.
Debate
Vote on a draft Opinion
2. Future of social security in Europe (Doc. 10098)
Rapporteur of the Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee: Mr Claude Evin (France, SOC)
Deadline for tabling amendments: Thursday 29 April at 10 a.m.
Debate
Vote on a draft Recommendation
12 noon Closure of the second part of the 2004 Ordinary Session
[1] Subject to the Assembly’s vote on the request by the Committee on Social, Health and Family Affairs to refer the report back to committee after the debate.