L 184/102
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
21.7.2023
Commission amendments may be tabled only by the members of that commission, or members or alternates duly mandated under the conditions set out in Rule 6(2), and, for their own opinion, by any non-mandated alternate appointed as rapporteur, or by a political group.
The right to table commission amendments may only be exercised either by a member of that commission or by another duly mandated member or alternate.
If a member delegates all or part of a commission meeting to an alternate, only one of them can table amendments.
If the member tables any amendments to any part of the commission meeting, then the alternate cannot do so afterwards.
Similarly, if the alternate is delegated for any part of the commission meeting and tables any amendments to an opinion – before the member has tabled any amendments, then the member cannot table any amendments to the commission meeting.
Amendments validly tabled by a member or alternate who subsequently loses that office, or before the granting or withdrawal of a delegation, shall remain valid.
The amendments shall be translated as a matter of priority and sent to the rapporteur to allow him or her to submit their rapporteur’s amendments to the Secretariat-General in electronic form no later than three working days before the date of the meeting.
The rapporteur’s amendments must be associated and related to one or more amendments referred to in paragraph 1.
These rapporteur’s amendments shall be electronically retrievable as soon as they have been translated and must be distributed in written form at the latest at the opening of the meeting.
The provisions of Rule 25(1) to (6) shall apply mutatis mutandis.
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Voting on amendments shall follow the order of the points in the draft opinion under discussion.
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The final vote shall be on the text as a whole, whether amended or not.
If an opinion does not obtain a majority of the votes cast, the commission shall decide either to: — re-submit the draft opinion for debate and adoption, as modified by the amendments adopted in commission, having regard to provisions of Rule 53, — appoint a new rapporteur and thus re-launch the process of drafting the opinion, or — give up the opinion.
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Once a draft opinion has been adopted by a commission, it shall be forwarded by the commission chair to the President of the Committee.
Rule 65 – Decision not to draw up an opinion 1.
Where the commission responsible considers that a consultation referred to it under Rule 41(a) has no regional or local interest, or is not of political importance, it may decide not to draw up an opinion.
The Secretary-General informs the relevant European institutions about this decision.
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Where the commission responsible considers that a consultation referred to it under Rule 41(a) is important, but, for reasons of priority and/or because relevant opinions have already been adopted in the recent past, a new opinion is not considered necessary, the commission may decide not to issue an opinion.
In this case, the Committee may respond to the European Union institutions by means of a motivated renunciation.
Rule 66 – Written procedure 1.
In exceptional circumstances, the commission chair may have resort to a written procedure for the adoption of a decision on the operation of their commission.
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The chair shall send the proposal for a decision to the members and ask to be sent any objections in writing within three working days.
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The decision shall be deemed to be adopted unless objections are received from at least six members.