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Article: RULES OF PROCEDURE : NEW RULES TAKING EFFECT IN JULY.
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- European Report
- Article date:
- June 29, 2009
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The European Parliament will have to apply new rules of procedure from July, particularly for its committees. All the changes linked to the Lisbon Treaty have been postponed to avoid prejudicing the outcome of the Irish referendum.
The changes in the institution's rules are set out in a report by Richard Corbett (PES, UK), adopted on 6 May in plenary in Strasbourg. This is the last package of internal parliamentary reform, launched by the assembly's President, German Christian Democrat Hans-Gert Pottering at the time of his election in January 2007. It was prepared by a special task force headed by German Socialist Dagmar Roth-Behrendt. The two earlier packages ...