Rules of procedure

The Rules of Procedure of the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly were adopted on 20 September 2018 at the 11th Eurolat Plenary Session in Vienna.

The Rules of Procedure for the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (Eurolat) include the following articles:

1. Nature and objectives
2. Composition
3. Responsibilities
4. Presidency and Executive Bureau
5. Relations with the EU-CELAC Summit, the Council of Ministers, the European Commission and other groups and ministerial conferences
6. Observers and guests
7. Plenary sessions of the Assembly
8. Agenda
9. Chairing of sessions
10. Quorum
11. Seating arrangements
12. Official and working languages
13. Public nature of debates
14. Right to speak
15. Voting rights and voting procedures
16. Resolutions and recommendations of the Assembly
17. Messages to EU-CELAC summits
18. Statements
19. Amendments
20. Questions for written answer
21. Questions for oral answer
22. Requests for the Assembly's opinion
23. Standing committees
24. Temporary and follow-up committees
25. Working groups, election observation and hearings
26. Relations with Joint Parliamentary Committees
27. Funding of costs of organisation, participation, interpretation and translation
28. Secretariat
29. Interpretation of the Rules of Procedure
30. Points of order
31. Amendment of the Rules of Procedure

The rules also include two annexes:

• Powers, responsibilities, membership and procedures of standing committees
• Length of texts