After the blog posts on Article 207 TEC and Article 240 TFEU, as well as on Swedish openness and the Lisbon Treaty, Information about EU Council: Swedish Presidency and first aid and Free EU Council publications, we turn to more detailed provisions.
While we are waiting for the Swedish EU Council Presidency to publish proposals for the new Rules of Procedure of the Council and other decisions concerning the implementation of the Treaty of Lisbon, we look at the existing Council’s Rules of Procedure.
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Council’s Rules of Procedure
Detailed rules on the Council of the European Union are given in Council Decision 2006/683/EC, Euratom of 15 September 2006 adopting the Council's Rules of Procedure, originally published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) 16.10.2006 L 285/47.
The latest consolidated version of the Council’s Rules of Procedure is of 1 January 2009.
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Contents
The headlines of the Articles and the Annexes offer a picture of the contents of the Council’s Rules of Procedure:
Article 1
Notice and venue of meetings
Article 2
Configurations of the Council, role of the General Affairs and External Relations Council and programming
Article 3
Agenda
Article 4
Representation of a Council member unable to attend
Article 5
Meetings
Article 6
Professional secrecy and production of documents in legal proceedings
Article 7
Cases where the Council acts in its legislative capacity
Article 8
Council deliberations open to the public and public debates
Article 9
Making public votes, explanations of votes and minutes
Article 10
Public access to Council documents
Article 11
Voting arrangements and quorum
Article 12
Ordinary written procedure and silence procedure
Article 13
Minutes
Article 14
Deliberations and decisions on the basis of documents and drafts drawn up in the languages provided for by the language rules in force
Article 15
Signing of acts
Article 16
Absence of the possibility to participate in the vote
Article 17
Publication of acts in the Official Journal
Article 18
Notification of acts
Article 19
Coreper, committees and working parties
Article 20
The Presidency and the businesslike conduct of discussions
Article 21
Reports from committees and working parties
Article 22
Quality of drafting
Article 23
The Secretary-General and the General Secretariat
Article 24
Security
Article 25
Duties as depositary of agreements and conventions
Article 26
Representation before the European Parliament
Article 27
Provisions concerning the form of acts
Article 28
Correspondence addressed to the Council
ANNEX I
LIST OF COUNCIL CONFIGURATIONS
ANNEX II
SPECIFIC PROVISIONS REGARDING PUBLIC ACCESS TO COUNCIL
DOCUMENTS
ANNEX III
DETAILED RULES FOR IMPLEMENTING THE PROVISIONS
CONCERNING THE WEIGHTING OF VOTES IN THE COUNCIL
ANNEX IV
(1. In application of the following provisions of the Rules of Procedure and for
decisions in respect of which, under the Treaties, members of the Council or
of Coreper may not participate in the vote, account is not to be taken of votes
by such members:)
ANNEX V
WORKING METHODS FOR AN ENLARGED COUNCIL
ANNEX VI
PROVISIONS CONCERNING THE FORMS OF ACTS
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Next, we are going to turn to Coreper, then the General Secretariat and finally publications about the Council of the European Union.
Ralf Grahn
Thursday 9 July 2009
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