Rules of Procedure of the Assembly (January 2023)
(Resolution 1202 (1999) adopted on 4 November 1999) with subsequent modifications of the Rules of Procedure*
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- Election
of Assembly vice-presidents
System for the attribution of seats in the Bureau for Vice-Presidents of the Assembly (Appendix to Resolution 1379 (2004), as modified by Resolution 2058 (2015))
1. Member states
are divided into four categories:
— group I: delegations with eighteen seats in the Assembly (France, Germany, Italy, Türkiye, United Kingdom) will have six seats in the Bureau every ordinary session;— group II: delegations with between twelve and seventeen seats in the Assembly (Poland, Spain, Ukraine) will have two seats in the Bureau every ordinary session;— group III: delegations with between five and eleven seats in the Assembly (Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Republic of Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Sweden, Switzerland) will have eight seats in the Bureau every ordinary session;— group IV: delegations with between two and four seats in the Assembly (Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Cyprus, Estonia, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, North Macedonia, San Marino, Slovenia) will have four seats in the Bureau every ordinary session.
2. Within these groups,
seats in the Bureau are allocated for one ordinary session by following
continuous English alphabetical order. Any new member state will
be included in the relevant group and take its place according to
English alphabetical order.
As regards groups II, III and IV, the
annual renewal will be partial in order to ensure a greater continuity
in the composition of the Bureau. This renewal will take place annually:
— for a third of the seats allocated to group II— for a half of the seats allocated to groups III and IV.
N.B. The Chairpersons of the
political groups or their representatives and the chairpersons of the
Assembly general committees or their representatives are ex officio
members of the Bureau of the Assembly.