19.5.2022
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
L 140/43
10.
If the text as a whole fails to secure a majority of votes in the final vote, the assembly may take one of the following steps: a) refer the document back to the competent section for re-examination in accordance with Rule 62; b) appoint a rapporteur-general, who shall submit a new draft text to the assembly at the same or another session; or c) give up the opinion.
In the latter case the Committee president shall inform the institution from which the request emanated. 11.
If the coherence of the final text has been compromised as a result of the adoption of amendments, the president of the Committee, after consulting the president of the competent section, the rapporteur and the authors of the amendments concerned, may propose to the assembly that the amendments be dealt with in such a way as to ensure that the final text is consistent.
The assembly shall vote on the Committee president’s proposal.
Rule 71 – Counter-opinions 1.
Any amendment or set of amendments which aim to set out a generally divergent view to an opinion presented by a section or the CCMI shall be described as a counter-opinion.
2.
The bureau has the competence to describe one or more amendments as a counter-opinion.
Any group may submit such a request to the bureau.
The bureau shall take its decision after hearing the views of the group presidents and the president of the section concerned or of the CCMI.
3.
The bureau may decide, having described one or more amendments as a counter-opinion, to refer the draft opinion, together with the counter-opinion, back to the section or the CCMI for further study, should the time limit set for adopting the opinion allow.
If the bureau decides not to refer it back, the draft opinion shall, where possible, be added to the agenda for the last day of the plenary session.
4.
Where an amendment was not presented in sufficient time to allow the bureau to take a decision on whether to describe it as a counter-opinion, this decision, as well as any decision to refer the matter back to the body concerned, shall be adopted by the assembly on a proposal from the president and following consultation with the president of the body concerned and the authors of the counter-opinion.
5.
If the proposed text is not considered to be a counter-opinion by the bureau, or if it is so considered but the draft opinion is not referred back to the body concerned, the assembly shall vote on the submitted amendments in the same way as for any other amendments.
6.
If the counter-opinion obtains a majority of the votes in the plenary, it shall be adopted.
In order to decide whether the original text should be appended to the adopted opinion, a new vote shall take place.
The original text shall be appended to the new text if it obtains at least one quarter of the votes cast.
7.
If the counter-opinion does not obtain a majority but obtains at least one quarter of the votes cast, it shall be appended to the original opinion.
Rule 72 – Minutes of the plenary session
1.
Minutes of each plenary session shall be drawn up and submitted to the assembly for its approval at the next session.