P9_TA(2024)0315 – Amendments to Parliament’s Rules of Procedure concerning the training on preventing conflict and harassment in the workplace and on good office management – European Parliament decision of 24 April 2024 on amendments to Parliament’s Rules of Procedure concerning the training on preventing conflict and harassment in the workplace and on good office management (2024/2006(REG))
Date: 2024-04-24
Institutions: Committee on Constitutional Affairs, European Parliament
Subjects: European Parliament, code of conduct, harassment at work, operation of the Institutions, parliamentary rules of procedure, professional ethics, vocational training, workplace








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C/2025/3713


17.9.2025






P9_TA(2024)0315

Amendments to Parliament’s Rules of Procedure concerning the training on preventing conflict and harassment in the workplace and on good office management


European Parliament decision of 24 April 2024 on amendments to Parliament’s Rules of Procedure concerning the training on preventing conflict and harassment in the workplace and on good office management (2024/2006(REG))

(C/2025/3713)



The European Parliament,







—


having regard to Rules 236 and 237 of its Rules of Procedure,










—


having regard to the report of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs (A9-0163/2024),










1.


Decides to amend its Rules of Procedure as shown below;










2.


Decides that the amendments shall enter into force on 16 July 2024;










3.


Instructs its President to forward this decision to the Council and the Commission, for information.






Amendment 1


Parliament's Rules of Procedure


Rule 10 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 2








Present text




Amendment





Members may not be elected as office-holders of Parliament or one of its bodies, be appointed as rapporteur or participate in an official delegation or interinstitutional negotiations, if they have not signed the declaration 
relating to
 that Code.


Members may not be elected as office-holders of Parliament or one of its bodies, be appointed as rapporteur or participate in an official delegation or interinstitutional negotiations
:






 










(a)




if they have not signed the declaration 
confirming their commitment to complying with
 that Code
, including completing the specialised training organised for them by Parliament on preventing conflict and harassment in the workplace and on good office management; or










 










(b)






if they have not completed the specialised training referred to in point (a) in breach of the deadline and conditions laid down in that Code.











Amendments 4 and 10


Parliament's Rules of Procedure


Rule 176 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3








Present text




Amendment





In relation to Rule 10(6), the President may only adopt a reasoned decision under this Rule following the establishment of the occurrence of a harassment in accordance with the applicable internal administrative procedure on harassment and its prevention.


In relation to Rule 10(6), 
as regards the prohibition of any type of psychological or sexual harassment laid down in the first subparagraph of that paragraph,
 the President may only adopt a reasoned decision under this Rule following the establishment of the occurrence of a harassment in accordance with the applicable internal administrative procedure on harassment and its prevention.





Amendment 6


Parliament's Rules of Procedure


Annex II – point 5








Present text




Amendment











5.


Where necessary, Members will cooperate 
promptly and
 fully with the procedures 
in place for
 managing situations of conflict or harassment (psychological or sexual), including responding promptly to any allegations of harassment. Members 
should
 take part in specialised training organised for them on preventing conflict and harassment in the workplace and on good office management.












5.


Where necessary, Members will cooperate fully
, in accordance
 with the procedures 
laid down by the Bureau, with a view to
 managing situations of conflict or harassment (psychological or sexual), including 
by
 responding promptly to any allegations of harassment.








 


Members 
who have not already done so shall
 take part in specialised training organised for them 
by Parliament
 on preventing conflict and harassment in the workplace and on good office management. 
That training shall be completed within the first six months of the Member’s term of office save in duly substantiated exceptional cases. The Members’ certificates of completion of that training will be published on Parliament’s website.








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