Inter-parliamentary institution
List of inter-parliamentary institutions

Inter-parliamentary institution

Section Title: List of inter-parliamentary institutions
Table Section Text: None

Name	Sessions	Direct election	Legislative power	Related organization and notes

Inter-Parliamentary Union	1889 –	no	no	none

ASEAN Inter Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA)	1977 –	no	no	ASEAN

Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)	1949 –	no	no	CoE

European Parliament	1952 –	1979	1970	EU

Nordic Council	1953 –	no	no	none

Benelux Parliament	1955 –	no	no	Benelux Economic Union

Assembly of the Western European Union	1955–2011	no	no	WEU that dissolved and was effectively succeeded by the EU.

NATO Parliamentary Assembly	1955 –	no	no	NATO

Latin American Parliament	1964 –	no	no	none

African Parliamentary Union	1976 –	no	no	none

Andean Parliament	1979 –	no	no	CAN

British Irish Parliamentary Assembly	1990 –	no	no	none

Central American Parliament	1991 –	no	no	SICA

Baltic Assembly	1991 –	no	no	none

Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe	1992 –	no	no	OSCE

Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States	1992 –	no	no	CIS

Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States	1999 –	no	no	OIC

Asian Parliamentary Assembly	1999 –	no	proposed	none

ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly	2000 –	no	no	none

East African Legislative Assembly	2001 –	no	no	EAC

Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the Eurasian Economic Community	2002 –	no	no	EurAsEC

Arab Parliament	2004 –	no	no	AL

Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly	2004 –	no	no	none

Pan African Parliament	2004 –	no	no	AU

Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly	2006 –	no	no	none

Mercosur Parliament	2007 –	2014	Mercosur

Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic-speaking Countries	2008 –	no	no	Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States

Assembly of Caribbean Community Parliamentarians	no	CARICOM

Inter-Parliamentary Committee of the West African Economic and Monetary Union	no	UEMOA

Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States	no	ECOWAS

Parliamentary Assembly of French-speaking countries	no	no	OdLF

Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean	no	no	none

Euronest Parliamentary Assembly	proposed	no	no	none

South American Parliament	proposed	UNASUR

United Nations Parliamentary Assembly	proposed	UN

Parliamentary assembly of the World Trade Organization	proposed	WTO

Sentence(s)

In 2014, Mercosur Parliament is a directly elected inter parliament.

final_sentence: In 2014, Mercosur Parliament is a directly elected inter parliament.