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Resolution 1712 (2010) Final version
Change in the composition of the Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly
1. Among the measures contemplated
by the Parliamentary Assembly in Resolution 1689 (2009) on the future
of the Council of Europe in the light of its sixty years of experience
are several proposals relating to its organisation and mode of operation.
2. Paragraph 28.8 of Resolution
1689 proposes associating ex
officio with the Bureau of the Assembly the chairpersons
of the national delegations of countries belonging to the Committee
of Ministers troika (outgoing, current and forthcoming chairmanships).
This proposal, aimed at increasing parliamentary influence over
the chairmanships of the Committee of Ministers of the Organisation
and ensuring greater continuity in the Assembly’s work, is important
in the present context of enhancing the Assembly’s dialogue with
the Committee of Ministers.
3. On several occasions the Assembly has adapted its Rules of
Procedure to political realities. It considers that the national
delegations perform a crucial role in promoting its decisions and
in the follow-up to its adopted texts, both in the member states’
parliaments and vis-à-vis their governments. Having regard to the
role of the chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers in setting
the Organisation’s priorities and to the role of the Bureau of the
Committee of Ministers, responsible for co-ordinating the action
of the successive chairmanships of the Organisation and for contacts
with the Assembly, the Assembly considers that it would help improve
co-operation with the Committee of Ministers if the chairpersons
of the national delegations of the member states holding the current,
the previous and the next two chairmanships of the Committee of
Ministers participated in the Bureau of the Assembly.
4. The Assembly accordingly decides to amend its Rules of Procedure
as follows:
“In Rule 13.3, after the first sentence, add the following sentence:
‘Chairpersons of the national delegations of the member states holding the current, the previous and the next two chairmanships of the Committee of Ministers shall be ex officio members of the Bureau entitled to vote. They may not be the Bureau’s rapporteurs for its reports. They cannot be replaced.’”
5. The Assembly decides that the amendment of the Rules of Procedure
set out in this resolution will come into force upon its adoption.