Activities of Gerald HÄFNER related to 2013/2083(REG)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on amendment of Parliament's Rules of Procedure with regard to parliamentary questions PDF (200 KB) DOC (289 KB)
Amendments (1)
Amendment 4 #
Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 116
Rule 116
1. Question Time with the Commission shall be held at each part-session at times decided by Parliament on a proposal from the Conference of Presidents. 2. No Member may put more than one question to the Commission at any given part-session. 3. Questions shall be submitted in writing to the President, who shall rule on their admissibility and on the order in which they are to be taken. The questioner shall be notified immediately of this decfor a duration of ninety minutes on a specific horizontal theme decided upon by the Conference of Presidents in principle one month in advance of the part-session. 2. The Commissioners invited to participate by the Conference of Presidents shall have a portfolio related to the specific horizontal theme on which questions are to be put to them. The number of Commissioners shall be limited to two per part-session, with the possibility of adding a third being dependent on the specific horizontal theme chosen for the Question Time. 3. Members who put a question to one of the Commissioners shall be chosen, for the first half of the Question Time, as laid down in paragraph 1, from amongst the political groups in proportion to the total number of their members They shall be chosen for the second half of the Question Time, by means of a ballot system in the following way: – two ballot boxes are placed at the entrance of the Chamber one hour before the start of Question Time; – Members wishing to put a question write their name on a form and place that form in one of the ballot boxes; – the President opens Question Time and closes the ballot boxes; – the President draws one form at a time and calls on the Member whose name appears on that form to put his or her question to the competent Commissioner. The Member is given one minute in which to formulate the question and the Commission. 4. The detailed procedure shall beer two minutes in which to reply. The President may exceptionally accept a supplementary question of 30 seconds' duration from any Member present if the President considers that the answer goivernedn by the Commissioner merits it. The Commissioner shall then bye guidelines laid down in an annex to these Rules of Procedure17iven two minutes in which to give a supplementary reply; 4. The President may rule on the admissibility of a question should it not be directly related to the horizontal theme chosen. Supplementary questions shall likewise have a direct bearing on the main question. 5. In accordance with guidelines established by the Conference of Presidents, specific question hours may be held with the Council, with the President of the Commission, with the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and with the President of the Eurogroup. ___________ 17See Annex II.