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Agenda for the first part of the 2005 Ordinary Session of the Parliamentary Assembly (24-28 January 2005)

Doc. 10360 rev.
15 December 2004

adopted by the Bureau of the Assembly on 23 November 2004, and updated on 13 December 2004

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General

• Examination of credentials of Representatives and Substitutes

• Election of the President of the Assembly

• Election of the Vice-Presidents of the Assembly

• Election of judges to the European Court of Human Rights

• Appointment of members of committees

• Progress report of the Bureau and the Standing Committee

• Communication from the Committee of Ministers to the Assembly

• Statements by guest speakers

• Communication from the Secretary General of the Council of Europe

Political Affairs

• Relations between Europe and the United States
  Rapporteur: Mr Claudio Azzolini (Italy, EPP/CD)
  Adopted on 7 October 2004, Doc. 10353

• The conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference
  Rapporteur: Mr David Atkinson (United Kingdom, EDG)
  Adopted on 17 November 2004, Doc. 10364

• The Third Summit
  Rapporteur: Mr Konstantin Kosachev (Russia, EDG)
  Adopted provisionally on 14 December 2004
  Rapporteur of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (for opinion): Mr Malcom Bruce (United Kingdom, LDR)
  Rapporteur of the Committee on Economic Affairs and Development (for opinion): Mr Evgeni Kirilov (Bulgaria, SOC)
  Rapporteur of the Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee (for opinion): Mrs Maria Eduarda Azevedo (Portugal, EPP/CD)
  Rapporteur of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population (for opinion): Mr John Wilkinson (United Kingdom, EDG)
  Rapporteur of the Committee on Culture, Science and Education (for opinion): Mr Jacques Legendre (France, EPP/CD)
  Rapporteur of the Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men (for opinion): Mrs Minodora Cliveti (Romania, SOC)

Legal Affairs and Human Rights

• The circumstances surrounding the arrest and prosecution of leading Yukos executives
  Rapporteur: Mrs Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (Germany, LDR)
  Adopted on 18 November 2004, Doc. 10368

• Protection of human rights in Kosovo
  Rapporteur: Mr Tony Lloyd (United Kingdom, SOC)
  To be adopted on 16 December 2004

• Opinion on the Draft Convention against money laundering and the financing of terrorism
  Rapporteur: Mr Jaume Bartumeu Cassany (Andorra, SOC)
  To be adopted on 16 December 2004
  Rapporteur of the Committee on Economic Affairs and Development (for opinion): …
  Opinion on the Draft specific legal instrument for the prevention of terrorism (subject to the Committee of Ministers having transmitted the draft text to the Assembly for opinion)
  Rapporteur: Mr Jaume Bartumeu Cassany (Andorra, SOC)
  To be adopted possibly on 24 January 2005

Economic Affairs and Development

• What solutions to Europe's unemployment?
  Rapporteur: Mr Anders G. H�gmark (Sweden, EPP/CD)
  Adopted on 6 October 2004, Doc. 10359
  Rapporteur of the Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men (for opinion):
  Mr Giuseppe Gaburro (Italy, EPP/CD)

Social, Health and Family Affairs

• Boosting social cohesion and employment: more and better jobs
  Rapporteur: Mrs Irena Belohorsk� (Slovakia, EDG)
  Adopted on 23 June 2004, Doc. 10265

• Improving the lot of abandoned children in institutions[*]
  Rapporteur: Mr Michael Hancock (United Kingdom, LDR)
  To be adopted on 17 December 2004

Migration, Refugees and Population

• Establishment of a European remembrance centre for victims of forced population movements and ethnic cleansing
  Rapporteur: Mr Mats Einarsson (Sweden, UEL)
  Adopted on 6 December 2004
  Rapporteur of the Committee on Culture, Science and Education (for opinion): Mr Llu�s Maria de Puig (Spain, SOC)

• Migration and integration: a challenge and opportunity for Europe[*]
  Rapporteur: Mr Jean-Guy Branger (France, EPP/CD)
  Adopted on 6 December 2004

Environment, Agriculture and Local and Regional Affairs

• Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
  Rapporteur: Mr Wolfgang Wodarg (Germany, SOC)
  Adopted on 9 December 2004
  Rapporteur of the Committee on Culture, Science and Education (for opinion): Mrs Blanca Fern�ndez de Capel (Spain, EPP/CD)

Equal Opportunities for Women and Men

• Opinion on the Draft Convention on action against trafficking in human beings (subject to the Committee of Ministers having transmitted the draft Convention to the Assembly for opinion)
  Rapporteur: Mrs Ruth-Gaby Vermot-Mangold (Switzerland, SOC)
  To be adopted on 14 January 2005
  Rapporteur of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (for oral opinion): …
  Rapporteur of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population (for oral opinion): M^me Lydie Err (Luxembourg, LDR)

Rules of Procedure and Immunities

• Revision of the terms of reference of Assembly committees
  Rapporteur: Mrs Anne Brasseur (Luxembourg, LDR)
  Adopted on 10 December 2004

• Procedure for elections held by the Parliamentary Assembly other than those of its President      and Vice-Presidents[*]
  Rapporteur: Mr Rudolf Vis (United Kingdom, SOC)
  Adopted on 10 December 2004

Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe

• Honouring of obligations and commitments by Georgia
  Co-Rapporteurs: Mr Maty�s E�rsi (Hungary, LDR) and Mr Evgeni Kirilov (Bulgaria, SOC)
  To be adopted on 15 December 2004

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[*] Not included in the draft order of business of the 1^st part of the 2005 Ordinary Session (24-28 January 2005) drawn up by the Bureau of the Assembly on 13 December 2004.