recommendations, resolutions, opinions and orders to the Assembly in plenary session.

Article 31.

1. Committee meetings shall not be held in public. Any-
delegate of the Assembly shall be entitled to attend meet-
ings of Committees of which he is not
but shall not have the right to vote. The Chairman of a

a member,

Revision 10: Section VIII. Article 31. Paragraphs 1, 3. Purpose: To reflect a decision by the Assembly to open its committee sessions to the public, except for the purpose of conducting private committee business; and to the Assembly.

invite non-members reflect a decision to hold two semi-annual meetings of

of the Standing Committee of the Assembly, to appoint
2. Each Committee shall be entitled, with the approval
sub-committees of its members, of which it shall deter-
mine the composition and competence.

Assembly to address the Committee.

3. It is the responsibility of Rapporteurs to ensure that draft recommendations, resolutions, opinions or orders shall be available, if possible, to members of their respective committees together with the accompanying reports, immediately preceding the annual session of the Assembly. at least two weeks before the meetings of committees held each day of a Committee meeting before taking his place. 5. Observers, as defined in sub-paragraph 2 of Article 14, 4. Each delegate shall sign the register of attendance on may attend Committee meetings by invitation of the working papers of the Committee. Observers may be Chairman. They may be provided with the appropriate invited to take part in the discussions of the Committee at the express invitation of the Chairman, but under no circumstances may they vote. Committees may not appoint consultants or advisers.

1. Committee meetings shall (not) be held in public
EXCEPT WHEN THE CONDUCT OF COMMITTEE
BUSINESS AS DETERMINED BY A TWO-THIRDS
MAJORITY OF THOSE DELEGATES PRESENT,
REQUIRES THAT A SESSION BE CLOSED. Any
delegate of the Assembly shall be entitled to attend
meetings of Committees of which he is not a member,
but shall not have the right to vote. The Chairman of
a Committee has the right to invite non-members of the
Assembly to address the Committee.

3. It is the responsibility of Rapporteurs to ensure that
draft recommendations, resolutions, opinions or orders
shall be available, if possible, to members of their respec-
tive committees together with the accompanying reports,
at least two weeks before the meetings of committees
held immediately preceding the (annual session) SEMI-
ANNUAL SESSIONS of the Assembly.

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Article 32.

1. A Committee shall normally vote by a show of hands.
2. In exceptional circumstances the Chairman may
decide to hold a rollcall vote of members of the Committee
by national delegation.

3. Election shall be by secret ballot. If, after the first
ballot, no candidate for Chairman has obtained an absolute
majority of the vote cast, the candidate who, in the second
ballot, obtains the most votes, shall be elected. In the
event of a tie the issues shall be decided by lot. Vice-
Chairmen and Rapporteurs shall be elected by the same
procedure. When only one candidate is proposed, election
may take place by acclamation.

4. The decision of a Committee shall be by simple
majority subject to subparagraph 3 above.

5. A vote in committee shall not be valid unless a third of the members of the Committee are present.

6. The right to vote is an individual one. An alternate, authorized to sit in the place of a delegate absent or unable to take his seat, may vote. National delegations shall appoint the number of delegates entitled to vote, and up to the same number of alternates, as set out in Article 27 above and in Appendix III to these Rules of Procedure.

7. The Chairmen of the Committee may take part in
discussions and may vote, but without having a casting
8. Any member of a Committee who is prevented from
vote.
attending a sitting of that Committee may arrange to
be replaced by another delegate or an alternate.

9. Alternates designated to replace full members of
in the Committee as the member himself. An alternate
Committees shall have the same rights and obligations
may be appointed as a Rapporteur, but not as Chairman

or Vice-Chairman.

Article 33.

1. A record shall be kept, by the Committee Secretary,
of votes cast. The result of a vote on a draft recommenda-
tion, resolution, opinion or order, shall be presented to
the Drafting Committee.

2. Minutes of proceedings shall be drawn up for each
Committee meeting under the responsibility of the Com-
mittee Secretary and shall be distributed to members of
the Committee.

persons than members of the Committee concerned,
3. Minutes of Proceedings are confidential documents
of committees which shall not be distributed to other
members of the Standing Committee and Secretaries
of national delegations,

Revision 11: Section IX. Article 33. Paragraph 3.
Purpose: To reflect a decision by the Assembly that
the Assembly Committees shall meet in open session un-
less determined otherwise.

3. Minutes of Proceedings OF CLOSED SESSIONS
are confidential documents of committees which shall not
be distributed to other persons than members of the
Committee concerned, members of the Standing Com-
mittee and Secretaries of national delegations.

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X. DELEGATION SECRETARIES

Article 34.

Article 35.

1. The official languages of the Assembly shall be
languages shall be interpreted.
English and French. Speeches in either of the two official
2. A speaker wishing to use another language shall be
personally responsible for ensuring its interpretation into

one of the official languages.

1. The Secretariat shall be responsible for the distri-
bution of documents for each sitting.

2. The Secretariat shall ensure the publication of
reports, recommendations, resolutions, opinions and orders
of the Assembly. A record of the plenary sessions of the
Assembly shall also be made, and this record shall be
available to all members. Corrections of form and style
may be made to the record, at the discretion of the
President, up to a period of three months following the
previous sitting of the Assembly.