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.

Rules of Procedure of the Assembly

Parts: I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. XV. XVI. XVII. XVIII.

Complementary texts

Parts: I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. XV. XVI. XVII. XVIII. XIX. XX. XXI. XXII.

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      Additional provisions relating to documents

      i. - Distribution and classification of Assembly and Committee documents See progress report of the Bureau and the Standing Committee, Doc. 9203, para. 6, of which the Assembly took note on 24 September 2001. Regarding access to Council of Europe documents, see in particular Resolution (2001) 6 of the Committee of Ministers.

      1. All documents of the Parliamentary Assembly not subject to any classification are public.
      2. This applies in particular to verbatim reports of Assembly debates (CR), procedural minutes (PV), working papers including reports, questions, communications, etc. (Doc.), texts adopted, orders of the day, information documents (AS/Inf), the Assembly List and other various publications. It applies also to all committee documents with the reference AS/… unless the competent committee or body has decided otherwise.
      3. These documents are freely available and may be freely quoted. As far as possible they will also be found on the Parliamentary Assembly website.
      4. Draft minutes of the Bureau and of committee meetings remain confidential at least until approved by the following Bureau or committee meeting after which they can be released on request.
      5. If a committee decides to classify some of its working papers or documents the following possibilities exist:
      Restricted documents will be declassified one year after being issued. They can be made available on request and under the responsibility of the committee concerned or the Secretary General of the Assembly but may not be publicly quoted without special authorisation.
      Confidential documents will be declassified ten years after being issued. Unless the President of the Assembly or the Chairperson of the committee decides otherwise, they are only made available to members of the body concerned and some officials and must not be quoted.
      Secret documents will be declassified thirty years after being issued. A register listing the numbered copies should be kept by the secretariat concerned.
      6. However, on receipt of a well-founded request, the President of the Assembly has the authority, after consulting the Bureau or the Chairperson of the committee concerned, to allow consultation and quotation of all these types of documents.

      ii. - Distribution of non-official documents

      (Rules adopted by the Bureau of the Assembly on 6 December 1976 See Progress Report of the Bureau and the Standing Committee, Doc. 3917, paragraph 24, of which the Assembly took note on 24 January 1977.)
      1. Non-official documents are all papers not emanating from a Council of Europe body or authority acting as such Documents under the reference “AS/Inf”, containing texts of various kinds (press releases, articles, treaties or international agreements, etc.) which may be of interest to members of the Assembly, are issued on the responsibility of the Secretary General of the Assembly and are distributed and available in the same way as official Assembly documents., or from an outside body approached for the purpose by such a body or authority.
      2. They include, in particular, documents presented by members of the Assembly in a personal capacity, unsolicited material from non-member governments or other state authorities, non-governmental organisations, press articles, etc.
      3. Such documents must not be presented or reproduced on “Council of Europe – Parliamentary Assembly” headed paper.
      4. Secretariat departments working for the Assembly, whether in the Secretariat of the Assembly or in General Services, must not arrange for the distribution of non-official documents.
      5. The President of the Assembly may, however, if he sees fit, and where appropriate after consultation with members of the Bureau and/or Chairmen of the political groups, national delegations and Committees concerned, authorise distribution of a stock of non-official documents with which he has been supplied, to the individual pigeon-holes of representatives and substitutes. He may also ask the Secretary General of the Council of Europe to authorise technical services to assist in reproducing such documents. Authority may be delegated in this matter to the Secretary General of the Assembly.
      6. Furthermore, where such documents are sent to members of the Assembly by name, they shall be passed to the Distribution Service for placing in the individual pigeon-holes.