recommendations, resolutions, opinions and orders to the
Assembly in plenary session.
Article 31.

ings of Committees of which he hot a member,
shall not be held in public. Any-
delegate of the Assembly shall be entitled to attend meet-
1. Committee meetings
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.

of the Standing Committee of the Assembly, to appoint 2. Each Committee shall be entitled, with the approval 3. It is the responsibility of Rapporteurs to ensure that of which it shall deterdraft recommendations, resolutions, opinions or orders sub-committees of its members, mine the composition and competence. tive committees together with the accompanying reports, if possible, to members of their respecimmediately preceding the annual session of the Assembly. be available, 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 working papers of the Committee. Observers may be meetings by invitation of the Chairman. They may be provided with the appropriate invited to take part in the discussions of the Committee at attend Committee the express invitation of the Chairman, but under no circumstances may they vote. Committees may not appoint consultants or advisers.

may

Revision 10: Section VIII. Article 31. Paragraphs 1, 3.
Purpose: To reflect a decision by the Assembly

its committee sessions to the public, except to open
purpose of conducting private committee business; and to
semi-annual meetings of
decision to

reflect a

the Assembly.

hold tw

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.

A. POSSIBLE REMEDIAL REVISIONS TO THE RULES OF PROCEDURE OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC ASSEMBLY-Continued IX. VOTING IN COMMITTEES

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 ats and obligations in the Committee as the member himself. An alternate Committees shall have the may be appointed as a Rapporteur, but not as Chairman

or Vice-Chairman.

same rights

Article 33.

tion, resolution, opinion or order, shall be presented to
1. A record shall be kept, by the Committee Secretary,
of votes cast. The result of a vote on a draft recommenda-
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, members of the Standing Committee and Secretaries 3. Minutes of Proceedings are confidential documents of committees which shall not be distributed to other 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.

A. POSSIBLE REMEDIAL REVISIONS TO THE RULES OF PROCEDURE OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC ASSEMBLY-Continued
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.

XIII. REPORTS-PUBLICATION

Article 37.

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
previous sitting of the Assembly.
President, up to a period of three months following the