In order to "strengthen the coherence, legitimacy and effectiveness of its decision-making mechanisms", the Committee on Rules of Procedure today proposed to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to amend certain provisions of its Rules of Procedure concerning the credentials of national delegations and voting conditions.
The draft resolution adopted today, based on the report prepared by Petra de Sutter (Belgium, SOC), proposes that the credentials of a national delegation as a whole may be challenged on substantive grounds at the opening of an ordinary session "on the basis of a request submitted by at least one sixth of the members of the Assembly, present in the Chamber, belonging to at least five national delegations".
If the challenge is made during an ordinary session, it must be based on "a motion for a resolution tabled by at least one sixth of the members of the Assembly, belonging to at least five national delegations, distributed at least one week prior to the opening of a part-session".
