Since the General Council in its session on 2 and 3 September 1993, has approved the following: rules of procedure of the General Council and of the Organization of the Council General Chapter and of the constituent session of the General Council chapter II of the General Directors, chapter III of the Syndic General and the Audit Office Section 1 of the functions of the Ombudsman General and the Audit Office 2nd section Of the election of the Ombudsman General and the Auditor General Chapter IV of the parliamentary groups and of the Board of Presidents no 1st Section of the parliamentary groups 2nd section of the Board of Presidents Chapter V chapter VI Chapter VII Full of the Permanent Commission of the title II Commissions of the functioning of the General Council chapter I Chapter II sessions Of the order of the day chapter III chapter IV Chapter V of the voting discussions Of terms chapter VI emergency declaration Chapter VII expiry of the initiatives and parliamentary procedures Chapter VIII of the choice of people chapter IX of the agreement of the General Council for the announcement of referendum chapter X chapter XI Of parliamentary order of publications title III chapter I common legislative procedure legislative procedure Section 1 Of law projects 2nd section Of the propositions of law 3rd Section Of the application of the Government stipulated in art. 62.2 of the Constitution Section 4 Of the withdrawal of the projects and propositions of law, chapter II of the special procedures Section 1 of the law of General budget 2nd section of the laws classified 3rd Section of the legislation of extreme urgency and need Section 4th reading laws only section 5 Of constitutional reform chapter III Of title IV of the international treaty the promotion and control of the political action of the Government.

Chapter and the choice of head of Government Chapter II of the censure motion chapter III of the matter of trust chapter IV of the questions Chapter V of the debates about the direction of Government policy, plans and programs chapter VI Chapter VII Government releases Of the debriefing of the control of delegated legislation Chapter VIII Chapter IX of the proposals agree final provisions title and from the organisation of the Council General Chapter. The constituent session of the General Council Article 1 the General Council will constitute the fifteenth day after the proclamation of the election results in the twelve noon.

Article 2 1. The constituent session of the General Council will be chaired by the Director General of the older parish of Canillo, which will be attended by the Secretary General of the General Council. Will act as Secretary to the Director General of less than age.

2. The Director-General of the older parish of Canillo, acting as provisional President, will declare open the session and then will proceed to the election of the Bureau, in accordance with the provisions of this regulation.

Second chapter. General Directors ' Article 3 The Director General is acquired by popular choice. The fullness of the rights and duties of Director General is acquired after having submitted the relevant credential in the Secretariat of the General Council and have given an oath or a promise of obedience to the Constitution in the first session you attend.

Article 4 1. The General Directors have the right to attend all the sessions of the General Council and the right to cast vote in the plenary and in the committees of which they form part.

Can make use of the word, according to the provisions of this regulation, after having asked the Syndic General and having them granted.

2. the General Directors have the right and the obligation to belong to a Commission.

May attend, without voice or vote, to the sessions of those Committees which do not form part of it.

Article 5 for the fulfillment of parliamentary activity, the General Directors have the right to which the public administration are to provide the information, reports or documents that are open in your possession. The request will be made through the Syndic General.

Article 6 The General Directors have a duty to attend all sessions of the plenary and the committees in which they are integrated, and comply with the duties and obligations that are imposed by this regulation.

Article 7 The General Directors are obliged to observe the due courtesy and respect the rules of order and discipline laid down in this regulation. Their performance is guaranteed by the Syndic General, that call in the order to the Director General who does not respond. Also have the obligation to keep secret about the actions or decisions that have this character, in accordance with the Constitution and this regulation.

Article 8 General Counselors may not invoke or use their condition for the exercise of commercial, industrial or professional activities.

Article 9 1. The General Directors will receive remuneration that will determine the General Council in charge of the budget of this.

2. The Director General who, without sufficient justification or without authorization of the Audit Office, leave to attend three consecutive sessions of the General Council or five alternate during one calendar year may be deprived of the right to receive the financial allocation for two terms.

Article 10 1. The General Directors may not be subject to any judicial or disciplinary procedure, or they may require any responsibility outside of the General Council for the votes and opinions issued in the exercise of the Office.

2. In the case of detention or retention, indictment or processing of a Director General, the Syndic General inform immediately to the General Council.

Article 11 The General Councilors will lose its status for the following reasons: a) for termination of the mandate, on expiration of the General Council, except the members of the Standing Committee, which will continue until it is made up of the new General Council.

b) to a firm decision that anul.li your choice or proclamation.

c) to death.

d) for declared incapacitated.

e) by the exercise of a public office incompatible with that of Member of the General.

f) ruling that the disabled for the exercise of public office for a period of time exceeding the period of mandate that you rest.

g) by resignation, expressed by the Syndic General and personally ratified before the Audit Office.

Article 12 The Director-General is suspended: a) for judgment that the disabled for the exercise of public office for a period of time less than that remaining in Office.


b) to have been prosecuted, or have been convicted of a firm sentence barely different to the disqualification for the exercise of public office, when the General Council so decides by a majority of three-fifths, given the nature of the penalty or the seriousness of the facts.

c) when the plenum of the General Council so decides, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter ten of the present Regulation.

Article 13 in the event that a member of the General leave vacant his seat for any of the causes of the art. 11, this vacancy will be covered in accordance with the law.

Third chapter. The Syndic General and the Audit Office first section. Of the functions of the Ombudsman General and the Audit Office Article 14 1. The Audit Office, as the governing body of the General Council is made up of the Syndic General, the General Deputy Speaker and two Secretaries.

2. The Bureau is presided over, directed and coordinated by the Syndic General.

3. The Audit Office takes their agreements by a majority. In case of a tie, the Syndic General is vote.

4. The posts of General and Vice-President are incompatible with any other public office or function.

Article 15 1. The Syndic General represents the General Council, ensures their jobs, orders and manages with impartiality the debates of the House, and meets and enforces the regulations, which in case of doubt plays.

2. the General watches over the maintenance of order within all the dependencies of the General Council. For this purpose, in its interior is the maximum authority and may take all measures that it deems relevant.

3. Exercise all the other functions that the Constitution, this regulation or the laws attributed to him.

Article 16 1. The General Deputy Speaker replaces the Syndic General for vacation, absence or impediment. In this case has the fullness of the rights, duties and powers that correspond to the Syndic General.

2. you can hold, as delegated by the Syndic General, the representation of the General Council.

Article 17 the Secretaries: a) authorise, by turn, with the approval of the Syndic General, the proceedings of the plenary, the Audit Office and the Board of Presidents, and issued certificates;

b) give reading the documents that have to be reported to the General Council;

c) collaborate, under the direction of the Syndic General, in carrying out the work of the General Council;

d) ensure the correctness of the call and count on the votes.

Article 18 1. It is the responsibility of the Audit Office: a) to apply the regulation; and replace it in the event of default, heard the Board of Presidents;

b) adopted the decisions necessary for the carrying out of the work of Parliament;

c) run the budget of the General Council;

d) in accordance with the regulation, called the writings and documents of parliamentary character, declare its admissibility and decide its processing;

e) all other tasks assigned to it by this regulation.

2. If a member of the General discrepés of a decision of the Audit Office corresponding to the section of) may request in writing the review before the same Audit Office.

The resolution then, must be motivated and will be final.

Article 19 the Audit Office meets to call of the Syndic General. It is advised by the Secretary General who draws up the minutes and caters for the implementation of their agreements, under the direction of the Ombudsman's General. The Secretary General is appointed by the Syndic General, heard the Audit Office, between graduates in law.

Second section. The election of the Ombudsman General and the Audit Office Article 20 1. The full names, among its members, the Syndic General and the other members of the Bureau on the constitutive session. His tenure will understand the whole legislature.

Article 21 1. We will proceed in the first place in the election of Syndic General and Vice-president General. One-fifth of the General Directors may submit up to twenty-four hours before the start of the session, the candidates. Each nomination shall contain the name and the acceptance of the two people that comprise it. Each Member of the General can only sign one nomination.

2. After reading the names that make up each of the candidates, we will proceed immediately to the vote, which will be by secret ballot for.

Each Member of the General vote a single candidacy and will be chosen that obtained the absolute majority of the General Council. If none of the candidates reached, will proceed to a second ballot between the two most voted candidates that have been and will be chosen that obtained more votes. If there is a tie, we will proceed to a new vote, and if this still stood, is elected that the Syndic General candidate is older.

3. Announced the result of the election of Syndic General and Deputy Speaker, the General Council shall proceed immediately to the election of Secretaries of the Audit Office.

Each Member of the General vote a single name and will elect the two who have obtained more votes. If there is a tie, we will proceed as in the previous case, but the case is elected Secretary of minor age.

Article 22 carried out continuously all the votes and ballots to cover the charges of the Audit Office, the Syndic General elect give an oath or a promise of obedience to the Constitution and then will take up his post. After operating an oath or promise the Deputy Speaker and the two Secretaries General, which will be followed by your site. Finally, after paying the oath or promise the rest of General Directors present, the Syndic General rise the constitutive session.

Article 23 if, during the term there is the vacancy of the post of Syndic General or Secretary, will proceed to a new election in accordance with the procedure of article 21. If there is vacancy in the position of Deputy Speaker, the Syndic General will propose a candidate who must be elected by the plenary Assembly.

The fourth chapter. Of the parliamentary groups and of the Board of first section. Of the parliamentary groups Article 24 1. During the first five working days after the Constitution of the General Council, a minimum of four General Directors may constitute a parliamentary group, by means of a statement signed by its members with indication of the name of the parliamentary group, which will be transferred to the Syndic General.

2. The General Council will put at the disposal of parliamentary groups the means and financial resources necessary for carrying out its functions, in proportion to the number of members of each of them.

3. each Member of the General can only be part of a parliamentary group.

Article 25


1. General Counselors in the deadline and have not been integrated in any parliamentary group can join one of them, subject to acceptance of its President, during the first six days of each session, with equal rights and duties that the Directors Generals that had formed.

2. General Counselors that are not incorporated in any parliamentary group are General Directors not attached. When there are more than two General Directors who were not incorporated into a parliamentary group, all who are in the same situation will be stored in a Mixed Group. The participation of the Mixed Group in the activities of the General Council is analogous to that of other parliamentary groups.

Article 26 each parliamentary group will send to the Audit Office the list of General Councillors that make up and tell you the name of the President and the Deputy President, as well as its rules of procedure. The President will notify the Audit Office the ups and downs that may occur in the parliamentary group.

Article 27 General Counselors who access to his Office after the constituent session will be joining a parliamentary group in the five days following his oath or promise, with the acceptance of its President.

In the case that you will not make the incorporation, will become Director General not attached or, if applicable, will be incorporated in the Mixed Group.

Article 28 the separation of a Director General of a parliamentary group, entails the loss of the presence in the Commission of which it was part.

Article 29 if, as a result of the low produced, a parliamentary group comes to have two or less than two General Councillors, the parliamentary group will automatically be dissolved and its members will become General Directors not attached or, if applicable, will be incorporated into the Mixed Group.

Second section. Of the Board of Presidents Article 30 the Presidents of the parliamentary groups form the Board of Presidents, which is chaired by the Syndic General, assisted by a Secretary of the Audit Office. The Secretary-General raises minutes of the sessions. The Presidents of the parliamentary groups can be replaced by the Deputy Chairman. Can attend the other members of the Bureau and one representative of the Government, and for this purpose will be informed of their meetings. The Syndic General may convene it, if necessary, the Chairmen of the commissions.

Article 31 the Board of Presidents is convened by the Syndic General at the request of two parliamentary groups or on its own initiative.

The Board of Presidents shall meet, at least once a month during the sessions.

Article 32 in the case of voting, the votes will be calculated by the weighted system and, therefore, each President of the Parliamentary Group will have as many votes as General Directors make up its parliamentary group.

Article 33 without prejudice to the other powers as conferred by this regulation, the functions of the Board of Presidents are: a) establish the criteria to sort and to facilitate discussions and the tasks of the General Council;

b) to determine the competent Committee for parliamentary initiatives;

c) fix the number of members of each parliamentary group in the commissions;

d) assign seats that correspond to each parliamentary group in the session Room.

Chapter five. The full Article 34 the full is the supreme organ of the General Council. It is summoned by the Syndic General on its own initiative or at the request of the head of Government, two parliamentary groups or one-fifth of the Directors General.

Article 35 1. The General Directors sit always in the same place in the Hall of Sessions. The members of the Government will have a place especially designed and will be able to intervene in accordance with the present Regulation.

2. only have access to the General Sessions room the Ministers, members of the Government, officials of the General Council in the exercise of their function and authorised expressly by the Syndic General.

Article 36 the General Council is constituted as the General Directors meet to call of the Syndic General to try an order of the day in accordance with the Constitution and the present regulations. The list of General Councillors present shall be incorporated in the minutes of the session.

Chapter six. The Standing Committee Article 37 1. The General Council will appoint a Standing Committee in charge of protecting the powers of the Chamber when this recess in the period between sessions.

The Standing Committee is integrated by the Syndic General, three General Directors chosen by General Directors elected in national college and three chosen by General Directors elected in parish schools.

2. The Standing Committee oversees compliance with the rules on incompatibilities of General Directors.

Ask the General Directors who proclaim the positions they occupy and, if it were the case, which charges incompatible waive, and for this purpose will be able to claim the documentation needed.

3. The Standing Committee shall exercise those powers which may be assigned by law.

4. The Permanent Commission will accompany the General reception of oaths and the possession that have to be performed in front of him.

5. The Standing Committee is convened by the Syndic General on its own initiative or at the request of three Directors General or the head of Government.

6. The Permanent Commission will account to the General Council of Foreign Affairs and of the decisions taken at the first session in which this meets.

Chapter seven. Article 38 committees Commissions of the General Council will be made up by the number of Directors established by the General Audit Office, in accordance with the Board of Presidents, proportional to the number of Directors Generals of each parliamentary group. The General Directors will be appointed by the parliamentary groups.

Article 39 Are members of the Commission may be replaced by General Directors of the same parliamentary group, after communicating by its President to the Syndic General. When the replacement will be for once is enough communication to the President of the Commission at the beginning of the meeting, and the substitutes will be admitted as members of the Commission.

Article 40 the commissions will convene the members of the Government in their meetings. The members of the Government will be able to ask for assistance to them. In both cases there will be voice, as well as the right to obtain a copy of the minutes containing their appearance.

Article 41 the Commission must elect a President and a Vice-President. The Vice president shall replace the President in case of absence. Both must be chosen in the


first regular meeting held by the Commission, after having produced the vacancy.

Article 42 The presidencies of the commissions will be distributed by the Presidency in accordance with the Board of Presidents between the parliamentary groups proportionally according to the number of Directors Generals of each.

Article 43 the members of the Audit Office may not preside over any Commission, with the exception of the Ombudsman's General who is President of right to all of them.

Article 44 the Chairman convenes the meetings of the Commission on its own initiative, at the request of two parliamentary groups or two-fifths of its members, with an order of the day. The commissions may not meet at the same time that the full. To discuss issues relating to the legislative procedure to be subject to the procedure of urgency the Commission may be convened in the periods between sessions.

Article 45 the Commission intervene in all matters, projects or proposals which, according to the regulation, instruct the Audit Office, in accordance with the Board of Presidents. Have to carry out their work on the maximum period of three months, except when the Audit Office are authorized to extend this period, due to the uniqueness of the task or the volume of the activity.

Article 46 there will be eight permanent Legislative Committees: 1) Inside, 2) foreign policy, 3) economy (agriculture, industry, Commerce and tourism) 4) finance and budget, 5) town and country planning and town planning, 6) health and environment, 7) Social Affairs, 8) education, research, culture and sports.

Each permanent Legislative Commission will have a minimum of five Directors General. Each Member of the General can be a member of three permanent Parliamentary Committees as a maximum.

Article 47 The Permanent Parliamentary Committees will review all proposed legislation that pertain to the subject and to submit the Audit Office in accordance with the Board of Presidents. "Also examined all the proposals do not, General information or topics which by reason of the subject matter are to submit the General.

Article 48 1. The General Council will be able to create in each State legislature Committees of study or survey on any matter of public interest, at the proposal of the Syndic General, two parliamentary groups or one-third of the directors.

2. The same procedure may create commissions Legislature legislative character or special type.

3. The conclusions of the Commission of study or survey will be reflected in an opinion that should be debated by the General Council. The Syndic General has the power to order the debate, to grant the words and set the time of interventions.

4. The conclusions approved by the General Council must be reported to the Government, notwithstanding that the General can inform the public prosecutor's Office.

Article 49 the Commission, through the General Ombudsman can: a) apply to the Government and to any other public officer or authority the information and documents they deem necessary for the performance of their task, that must be provided.

b) require the attendance before him of members of Government, the elected authorities, public officials reporting for reporting of those issues that correspond to the topics discussed. You except the members of the judiciary and of the Constitutional Court. In accordance with the law, can claim the presence of any citizen.

Title II. The functioning of the General Council chapter. Of the sessions Article 50 the General Council meets annually for two ordinary periods of sessions between the first of March and on 30 June, and among the first of September and 31 December.

Article 51 1. The Syndic General summons all the sessions of the plenary of the General Council, whether traditional, ordinary or extraordinary. The sessions of the commissions are convened by its President.

2. extraordinary sessions can only be convened: a) by agreement of the Standing Committee; b) at the request of the head of Government, two parliamentary groups, or a quarter of General Directors. In the agreement or request must be the order of the day, which cannot be reduced or not expanded.

Article 52 a session includes all the necessary meetings to discuss an order of the day. The Syndic General opens and closes the sessions and determines the content of the meetings.

Article 53 1. The sessions of the General Council are public. The sessions of the commissions are not public and when preparing reports to raise to the Full.

2. On the initiative of the Presidency, two parliamentary groups, or a quarter of General Directors, the General Council may be decided by an absolute majority of its members held a secret session of the plenary of the General Council.

Article 54 1. Of all the sessions of the plenary and of the commissions of the General Council they rise a record containing a succinct list of the matters debated, people who have been involved in the incidents that have occurred and the resolutions adopted.

2. The minutes shall be signed by the Syndic General and one of the Secretaries of the Audit Office or, where appropriate, by the President and the Vice president, and to be deposited in the General Council and sent to the General Directors. If in the eight days after the deposit does not exist any written complaint, the minutes will be approved. In the case of a written complaint, will decide the Audit Office that will be able to submit the final decision in the first ordinary session of the plenary or of the Commission.

3. When a session has been secret, there will be a single record will be guarded by the Syndic General. For their approval will the same procedure of the previous section.

Article 55 the public attending the sessions of the General Council is forced to keep silence and order, and are not allowed any kind of demonstrations of approval or disapproval.

Second chapter. The order of the day Article 56 1. The agenda of the General Council is set by the Syndic General, in accordance with the Board of Presidents.

The agenda may be amended or altered by resolution of the plenary of the General Council on the proposal of the Syndic General, two parliamentary groups or one-fifth of the Directors General.

2. The agenda of the commissions is set by its President, which will inform the Syndic General.

The agenda of the commissions may be altered or amended by agreement of the Committee at the proposal of the President or one-fifth of the Directors General.

3. If you want to enter in the order of the day of the full or Commission a new theme, this must have fulfilled the regulatory procedures.

Article 57


The Government may ask that a session will include an issue with priority, provided that this has fulfilled the regulatory procedures. In this sense will have to communicate it to the Syndic General.

Third chapter. Of the 58 Article discussions Unless an agreement to the contrary of the Audit Office, won't be able to start any deliberation or debate on a particular question if a minimum of five days has not been distributed to each Member of the General documentation relative to the question object of deliberation or debate.

The same procedure will govern for the deliberations of the Commission.

Article 59 1. In accordance with the provisions of the present Regulation, the General Directors should ask for the Syndic General use of the word. If a member of the General call by the Syndic General to intervene there were present, it is understood that waiver to make use of it. The General Directors will discuss from his seat.

2. Likewise, the head of Government and the Ministers have to request of the Ombudsman's General use of the word.

Article 60 The General Directors, the head of Government and the Ministers cannot be interrupted while made oral interventions. Only the General has the faculty to do so to notify the participant that has consumed time, to remove the word or to call in the order. The Directors General will be called upon to stick to the issue, as long as they deviate.

Article 61 If in a session of the General Council will make allusions to the person or to the conduct of a member of the General or the head of Government or a Minister, the Syndic General may grant the word in the Al. alluded to that, without going into the bottom of the issue and for a short space of time, can answer the allusions. Can only be answered allusions within the same session.

Article 62 the General Council, on the initiative of the Ombudsman General and without debate, you can put an end to a deliberation or debate, when you understand that the issue has already been properly treated.

If a parliamentary group it alone. licités, the Syndic General can grant a turn in favour and one against five minutes each and it will be submitted immediately to a vote.

Article 63 if the present Regulation does not have otherwise, in every debate there will be a shift in favor and a turn against it. The duration of interventions may not exceed ten minutes. The right to consume a turn against it stays if you've made the turn in favour, although the proposal has been withdrawn.

Article 64 In the discussions of all the interventions will be fifteen minutes by parliamentary group. The General Directors are not assigned can intervene for five minutes.

Article 65 In every debate, every Member of the General or a member of the Government that is contradicted by one or more speakers have the right to rectify one time for a time of no more than five minutes.

Article 66 In any moment of the debate, a member of the General can ask the Syndic General observance of the regulation and will have to invoke precisely the article that claims that apply. The General rule and its decision must be acatada.

67 article in any case, the Syndic General has full powers for the ordering of the debate.

Article 68 the President of the Commission, in the sessions of these, has the same powers of debate that the Syndic General.

The fourth chapter. Of the voting Article 69 If the time of a vote or made this was not present about half of the members of the General Council, the Syndic General election be postponed and will announce a time within the same session to perform it. If you arrived at this time, either there was sufficient quorum to proceed with the vote, this will be postponed for an upcoming Full, but the debate is not reiterarà.

Article 70 1. The agreements will be valid when they have been approved by a simple majority of the General Councillors present, notwithstanding the special majorities determined by the Constitution, the law or these regulations.

2. There is a simple majority when the positive votes outweigh the negatives. There is an absolute majority when the number of votes in favour exceeds half of the total of the effective members of the General Council.

Article 71 The vote is personal and indelegable. Each Member of the General has a single vote. No one can take part in the votes that affect your status as a member of the General staff.

Article 72 the votes can be public: ordinary oral to call. In accordance with the regulation and the proposal of the Syndic General, you can vote for assent. The voting will be secret with ballot.

Article 73 In the oral public vote to call, the Audit Office will call the General Directors who will answer Yes, no or be declared that refrain. The choice of head of Government, the motion of censure and the issue of trust are always oral voting to call.

Article 74 In the ordinary public vote the Syndic General ask the votes in favour of the General Councillors present, votes against and abstentions.

Article 75 shall be considered approved by the assent of the Syndic General when, after having been announced, do not include any objection or opposition.

Article 76 The secret ballot will always call the General Directors and nominal introduced ballots in an urn. The vote will be by secret when required by this regulation or when you remember the General Council, at the proposal of two parliamentary groups or one-fifth of the Directors General.

Article 77 if a ballot there is a tie, that will be repeated and if you still persistís will be considered rejected the proposal.

Article 78 in the case of the voting public and ordinary, to call or to assent, once the vote, announced the result and the end of the corresponding point of the order of the day, the parliamentary groups will be able to briefly explain their vote. You can also do it the Director General who has voted differently to his parliamentary group and, in the case that have not taken part in the debate, the General Directors are not assigned. The Syndic General can also grant this possibility when in a discussion, subdivided into several different parts, you've finished one of them.

Chapter five. The time limits Article 79 the calculation of deadlines is not established in the Constitution and regulated by this regulation will be calculated with the working days included in the ordinary periods of sessions.

In exceptional circumstances, the Audit Office can enable working days as certain effects of the periods between sessions, for reasons of urgency.

Article 80 the Audit Office on its own initiative, a parliamentary group or a fifth part of General Directors can agree on extension of the deadlines established by


This regulation.

Article 81 parliamentary documents led to the General Council or any organ of the Chamber must be delivered to the Registrar of the General Secretariat in the days and hours that the Syndic General, but in any case you will need to log in is guaranteed in such a way that they can give out the deadlines of the days and hours set.

Chapter six. The emergency declaration Article 82 1. At the request of the Government, two parliamentary groups or one-fifth of the Directors General, the Audit Office can arrange a matter have the urgent procedure on the basis of the procedure following the one in progress.

2. The Declaration of emergency implies the reduction of all deadlines and priority in processing. If the Bureau does not indicate otherwise, the terms will be reduced to half.

Chapter seven. Of the expiration of the initiatives and parliamentary procedures parliamentary procedures and initiatives All 83 Article made on issues not completed expire at the end of the legislature.

Eighth chapter. The choice of Article 84 people for elections of people that the Constitution or the laws "to the General Council and which are not expressly provided for in this regulation, the parliamentary groups will be able to present in the register of the General Secretary, until four days before the Full in what will have to proceed to the vote, the candidates who meet the requirements established in each case , together with a curriculum vitae of the persons proposed. The Syndic General inform the General Directors the next day, which will be able to make objections in the following twenty-four hours. The day before the Full proclamarà the Audit Office candidates.

Chapter nine. The agreement of the General Council for the referendum Article 85 When the head of Government, making use of the faculty that grants art. 76 of the Constitution, intended to hold a referendum on a question of political order, requested the agreement of the General Council. To this end, we will go to the Audit Office to call the full to hold a debate, that will be all. — The debate, will proceed to the vote on the agreement, which will be oral and public to call.

Tenth chapter. Of the parliamentary order Article 86 1. Within all the dependencies of the General Council, the Directors General, the head of Government, Ministers and the public are subject to the disciplinary powers of the Syndic General, which are exercised in accordance with the present Regulation.

2. Anyone who in the offices of the General Council promotes serious disorders will be expelled immediately. If it is a member of the General, the Audit Office the suspended temporarily as such up to a maximum period of one month, without prejudice to the General Council, at the proposal of the Audit Office, can extend the sanction.

3. On the initiative of the Presidency, the full member of the General temporary suspension of payment may incur the assumptions of the previous paragraph or on an ongoing basis and severe refuses to abide by a firm decision of the Syndic General or of the organs of the General Council.

Article 87 The Syndic General may suspend the session of the General Council in case of riot or obstinate disobedience of any member of the General or a member of the Government, without prejudice to the sanctions that in law there is place, either in the same session or in the ensuing.

Prior to the suspension of the session, the Syndic General warn of the possibility of adopting these measures.

Article 88 The Syndic General may order the immediate expulsion of the people, the public, do not adhere to the provisions of art. 55. If a person commits a serious violation of the public will be conducted before the competent authority. In case of disorder the Syndic General can order the eviction of the public present in the room of the General Council.

The eleventh chapter. Of the publications Article 89 the "Official Journal of the Consell General" hear all interventions, incidents and resolutions adopted in the public sessions of the General Council.

Article 90 the "Bulletin of the General Council" will publish all the projects and propositions of law, the amendments ordered by the Speaker and the legislative commissions report with amendments and votes that have to debate in the plenary, the committees and the plenary, the motions, questions and answers, communications and agreements that the Government submits to the General Council , and any other text or document required by this regulation or order the Síndic General, given your interest in parliamentary procedure.

91 article for reasons of urgency the Syndic General may order that, in order to be debated and voted the documents referred to in the previous paragraph, these can be reproduced by other means and distributed to the members of the Committee to the General Council that has to meet. In any case, must be published in the "Bulletin of the General Council."

Title III. The legislative procedure chapter. Of the common legislative procedure Section first. The projects of Law Article 92 1. The Bills approved by the Government will be transferred by the head of Government to the General Council, accompanied by a statement of reasons, as well as the documentation and background needed for the General Council can be delivered.

2. The Audit Office ordered their publication in the Gazette of the General Council "and will open a period of fifteen days for the submission of amendments. These may be presented by General Directors and by the parliamentary groups by means of a letter addressed to the Audit Office.

Article 93 1. Amendments may be to the whole or to the articles. Are amendments to all those that put forth the return of the Bill to the Government and those in which it presents a text alternative articulated. Can only be presented for parliamentary groups or by a member of the General with the signing of two more.

2. Amendments to the articles can be deletion, modification or addition. In the last two cases, will contain the text to be proposed.

Article 94 in the case that they had submitted amendments to the full, the Síndic General will include in the agenda of the first plenary session. The debate will be full and will be developed in accordance with that established by this Regulation. Once completed, the Syndic General voting subject to the amendments to the totality presented, starting with those who wish to return to the Government.

Article 95 1. If the Full would decide the return of project, the Syndic General this will be communicated to the Government. Otherwise, heard the Board of Presidents, the forward together


with the amendments to the articles in the corresponding Commission for processing.

2. If the plenary adopted an amendment to the whole with alternate text, the legislative procedure will continue and the Syndic General will open a period of amendments to this text, which can only be to the articles.

Article 96 if the amendments presented were only in the articles, the General will, together with the text of the project, the corresponding Commission.

Article 97 the processing on Commission will begin with the election of a Speaker that sort the amendments so that, within a period of fifteen days, to be examined by the Commission.

Article 98 1. The examination of the amendments and of the text of the Bill, the President again convened the Commission and esmenants to discuss the amendments presented and vote these and the text of the project.

2. Voting will be done article by article. The corresponding amendments to an article will be debated and voted prior to a vote by the article. For each amendment there will be a shift in favor and a turn against it.

99 article during the debate of the Commission, the President will be able to allow for processing amendments its members to submit transaction aimed at reaching an agreement among those already made and the text of the article. Your presentation must lead to the withdrawal of amendments with respect to which it is transigeix.

Article 100 1. The resolutions of the Commission constitute the report, which will be signed by the President of the Commission and the Vice-President to be presented in Full by the Speaker. The Directors General and the parliamentary groups, within forty-eight hours after the completion of the work of the Commission, be able to book the amendments that have been presented and formulate dissents to the full by writing to the Syndic General.

2. the General ordered the immediate release in the "Bulletin of the General Council" of the report, the dissents, the amendments and, where appropriate, of the application of the Government stipulated in art. 62 of the Constitution.

Article 101 1. The debate of the Bill in the full will begin with the presentation by the Rapporteur of the report adopted by the Commission. This intervention may not exceed fifteen minutes.

2. Voting will be done article by article. Before proceeding to the vote on the article, will discuss each of the amendments and votes that have been maintained with a turn and a turn against you, and then they vote each of them for the same order.

Finida voting on an article, it will pass to the next.

Finida voting of all articles, will vote the Annexes, the preamble and the title of the law.

3. If the characteristics of the text allow, the Syndic General may propose the organisation of voting by groups of articles or paragraphs.

Second section. Of the propositions of Law Article 102 the propositions of law may be processed by: a) a parliamentary group.

b) three General Directors.

c) three common, together.

d) one-tenth of the national electoral register, in accordance with the law.

Article 103 1. The propositions of law will be presented by means of a letter addressed to the Audit Office, accompanied by an exhibition of illustrations and background needed to be able to pronounce.

2. Exercised the initiative, the Audit Office ordered the publication of the proposal and will send it to the Government because, within a period of fifteen days, state your opinion.

Article 104 1. After fifteen days from its publication, the proposition may be included in the agenda of the plenary to be taken into consideration by the General Council. The debate will be full and will start with the reading of the judgment of the Government, if any. After the debate, the Syndic General will ask if the General Council takes into consideration whether or not the Bill.

2. If so, the Síndic General, he shall send to the Commission and will open a period of amendments, which may not be at all. The proposal will follow the procedure foreseen for the Bills.

The third section. Of the application of the Government stipulated in art. 62.2 Article 105 of the Constitution the President of the Legislative Commission in charge of examining a Bill, through the Syndic General, submit the amendments presented to the Government, which will have ten days to request, by writing to the Audit Office, which are not debated those that involve an increase in expense or decrease in revenue in relation to those planned in the General Budget Act. If the Government make use of the application provided for in art. 62.2 of the Constitution, the General will inform the President of the Commission and ordered the publication of the application in the "Bulletin of the General Council." In this case, the Commission will refrain from dealing with the amendments concerned.

Article 106 if the Government had raised the request mentioned in the previous article, a parliamentary group or a Director General with the signing of two more will be able to propose, by writing to the Syndic General until two days before the plenary, that this objection to the request with a reasoned motion agreed by an absolute majority. If the motion, the plaintiffs, the amendment affected will be debated in the plenary.

107 article within the same time limit provided for in art. 103, the Government will be able to request that is not disputed a bill if that would lead to an increase in expense or decrease in revenue in relation to those planned in the General Budget Act. If the Government had raised the request, you can proceed as in art. 106. Section four. The withdrawal of the projects and propositions of Law Article 108 1. The Government can withdraw any bill of the General Council whenever the discussion of the report has not been included in the agenda of the plenary.

2. The propositions of law can be withdrawn at the initiative of proposing before the agreement taking into consideration. Once you have produced this, the withdrawal can only be effective if it is accepted by the Full.

Second chapter. Of special procedures Section first. Of the General Budget Law Article 109 1. In the consideration and approval of the draft law on General budget will apply the common legislative procedure except for the provisions of this section.

2. The General Budget Bill will have preference in the procedure with respect to other issues and the work of the Chamber.

Article 110 amendments to the budget bill that proposed to increase credit in any concept will only be accepted for processing if at the same time offer a low


of equal or higher amount in another concept of the same section.

Article 111 1. The whole debate of the Bill the General budget will take place in the plenary before the processing on Commission. The shifts will be thirty minutes.

2. the debate shifts from the amendments to the articles and to the whole of the sections or budget services will be twenty minutes.

Second section. Of the qualified law Article 112 1. The projects and propositions of law stated, once the Audit Office have attributed this character in accordance with the Constitution, it is processed by the common legislative procedure. Done this, we will proceed to a final vote in the plenary on the whole of the text, which will be announced in advance by the Syndic General. Approval shall require the favourable vote of the absolute majority of the members of the General Council made except for the laws that, according to art. 57.3 of the Constitution, require an absolute majority of the General Councillors elected in parish constituency and an absolute majority of the General Directors elected in national elections. In this case, the vote will be oral and public to call.

2. If a project or proposal of ordinary law will be presented amendments relating to matters reserved to law, the Audit Office may not admit them for processing if you had not been attributed this character to the project or proposal.

The third section. The legislation of extreme urgency and need Article 113 1. When the Government presented to the General Council a text articulated by being passed as law in accordance with article 60.1 of the Constitution, it will indicate his character of extreme urgency and necessity. Qualified for the Audit Office, the Syndic General shall summon directly the full within forty-eight hours from the receipt. If the Bureau does not grant the character of extreme urgency and necessity, a third of General Directors can ask the incidental discussion of paragraph 3 regulated in this article.

2. The discussion will begin with the presentation of the text articulated by a member of the Government and will be ordered in accordance with the discussions of all. The whole text is subject to a single vote.

3. If one-fifth of the Directors General or a parliamentary group discrepés of the character of extreme urgency and necessity of the text proposed by the Government, may present a motion to this effect before the start of the plenary. In this case, there will be a debate with incidental turn and turn against it. The debate, presented the motion to vote is finite. Case of being approved, the text articulated will be handled by common legislative procedure, unless the Government removed. Case of not being approved, will proceed to your debate, in accordance with the second paragraph.

Section four. Read-only laws Article 114 When the nature of a project or proposal of law advise, its simplicity of formulation permitted, and have not been presented amendments to the text, the General Council, at the proposal of the Syndic General heard the Board of Presidents may agree that the initiative is advised to directly in front of the plenary for deliberation and voting in a single reading. In this case, we will proceed to a discussion of full and performs the whole text to a single vote.

Fifth section. The constitutional amendment Article 115 1. The co-princes jointly, or one third of the members of the General Council may submit proposals for constitutional reform. These are related to the Audit Office and, once accepted, it is processed as the propositions of law by the common procedure.

2. If the General Council shall take into consideration the proposition, will constitute a Special Committee, which in part, in any case, the Presidents of the Parliamentary Group, to draw up the report which will be debated in the plenary. — The debate and voting of amendments, of the dissents and of the text of the report, the Syndic General announce in advance the vote on the whole of the reform which will be oral and public to call.

Shall be deemed approved by the General Council if reform gets the favourable vote of two thirds of the members of the Chamber.

Third chapter. Of international treaties Article 116 international treaties which must be approved by the General Council be processed as bills, with the peculiarities of this chapter, and shall be considered approved in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution.

Article 117 The proposals presented by General Directors and the parliamentary groups will have the consideration of amendments to the full refund, when refuse approval of the Treaty or to propose reservations or statements not included in this.

Article 118 in the cases of complaint provided for in art. 64.3 of the Constitution, it will use the same procedure as in article 117.

Article 119 the General Council suspended the discussion on the approval of a Treaty when it has been the subject of the requirement of a prior ruling of unconstitutionality stipulated in art. 101 of the Constitution, and the Constitutional Court has been accepted for processing. The resolution estimatòria of unconstitutionality will decay process.

Title IV. The promotion and monitoring of the political action of the Government chapter. The election of the head of Government Article 120 after each renewal of the General Council or in cases in which is vacant the post of head of Government, your choice will be made in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.

Article 121 1. The proposed candidate for head of Government must be presented to the Audit Office within five days after the constitutive session. The written proposal must contain the name and the acceptance of the candidate, as well as the signature of the directors that the present. Accepted for processing those proposals which comply with the requirements, the Audit Office proclamarà are candidates for head of Government.

2. Within a period of eight days following the constituent session, the plenary session will be held for the election of the head of Government, which will be called the candidates who do not have a Director General.

3. In the event that left vacant the post of head of Government, the deadlines above will be counted from the day on which there was the vacation.

Article 122 1. The session will start with the reading by a Secretary of the applicants set forth and General Directors who are present.

2. Then, each candidate will present, successively, your program without time limit. The interventions will be arranged according to the number of


General Directors that the present, from highest to lowest.

In case of equal number, sorted according to the time of submission of the application. Once you have completed the presentation of candidates, the parliamentary groups will intervene, in order from lowest to highest number of General Directors, for thirty minutes. Then, be able to part the General Directors are not assigned to a maximum time of five minutes each.

3. The candidates, if you request, you will be able to intervene again for fifteen minutes and, in this case, it will open a new turn of ten minutes for each parliamentary group.

Article 123 1. The election of candidates for head of Government will take place within twenty-four hours after the end of the debate. The Syndic General announce in Full, after the last intervention, the time that will be voting.

2. Voting will be oral and public to call, and each Member of the General expressed the name of the candidate for whom to vote or abstention. Once held the votes, the candidate who has obtained the absolute majority of the General Council will be proclaimed head of Government by the Syndic General, who shall notify the administrative code the name of the candidate elected.

Article 124 1. In the event that none of the candidates have obtained an absolute majority, the Syndic General will fix the date for holding a second vote, which must take place within seven days. For this purpose, proclamarà as the two candidates who have obtained the best results on the first ballot.

2. The two candidates proclaimed will present their program to the Full without time limit. Then, the parliamentary groups will set its position for fifteen minutes. The end of the debate, we will proceed to the vote, which will be oral and public to call. The candidate who gets the most votes will be proclaimed the head of Government. The Syndic General will communicate the name of the elected candidate to the Co-princes.

Second chapter. The motion of censure Article 125 1. The motion of censure must be presented at least one-fifth of the directors in General a written motivated aimed at the Audit Office which shall be stated the grounds for the motion.

2. The Audit Office, once you have checked that the proposal meets the requirements, will allow you to process, this will be communicated to the head of Government and the parliamentary groups and the General Directors within a period of no more than twenty-four hours, partners and between the third and the fifth day following their presentation, a session of the Council that will have as a single point of the order of the day the deliberation and voting of the motion of censure.

Article 126 1. The debate on the motion will start with their defense on the part of one of the signatories in an exhibition of thirty minutes, which we will continue an intervention of the head of Government as well as thirty minutes. The General will be able to suspend the session for a period of no more than twenty-four hours before giving way to the interventions of the parliamentary groups, which may not exceed fifteen minutes. The Syndic General granted the word to General Directors not attached that it alone. the requests to a maximum of five minutes.

2. The end of the debate, we will proceed to the vote, which will be oral and public to call. In order that the motion of censure must survive the favourable vote of the absolute majority of the General Council.

Third chapter. The issue of trust Article 127 the issue of confidence must be presented by the head of Government in a written motivated aimed at the Audit Office accompanied by the program, the Declaration of general policy or the decision of special significance that is subjected to the General Council. Once accepted for processing, the Syndic General this will be communicated to the parliamentary groups and the General Directors. The full for your deliberation and voting will take place between the third and the fifth day from the communication.

128 1 article. The discussion of the question of confidence will start with a presentation of the head of Government with no time limit, after which the Syndic General may agree to suspend the session for a period of no more than twenty-four hours. The debate will continue with the participation of the parliamentary groups, for a period of fifteen minutes. The Syndic General granted the word to General Directors not attached that it alone. the requests to a maximum of five minutes.

2. Once the discussion, is subject to a vote of confidence. The vote must be oral and public to call. The trust shall be considered granted when you get the simple majority.

The fourth chapter. Of the questions Article 129 1. The General Directors can direct questions to the Government on issues of general policy or related to a fact, situation or specific information, in order to know if one has knowledge, and what position it maintains in this regard.

2. The questions must be submitted in a written submission to the Audit Office, indicating if application is being made an oral or written response. It is understood that the response must be in writing unless you are stating the opposite.

The Government has sent a written response within 30 days from its publication. If an oral response is sought it is understood that this should take place in front of the plenary.

3. under no circumstances will be accepted exclusively in the interest of the private questions asking or any person.

4. The questions will be accepted for processing by the Audit Office that will direct the their immediate release.

Article 130 1. The questions that request an oral response, can be included in the agenda of the plenary from the seventh day of its publication.

2. At each ordinary session, the General Council will reserve a time for the substantiation of questions to the Government.

The Syndic General may extend this time when it deems necessary. The order of substantiation shall be made in accordance with the order of priority in the presentation.

3. For substantiation, the Director General will formulate the question that will be answered by a member of the Government.

The Director-General will have a mirror and in this case the Member of the Government will have a turn to dúplica. In any case, the total time to be conducted a question may exceed eight minutes, divided into equal parts. The response of the Government member Finida, if a member of the General it application is being made, the General will be given the floor for a minute in order to provide a strictly repregunta on the same subject. The Member of the Government will have to answer at the same time.

4. At the end of an intervention, the Syndic General give the Word immediately who will have to intervene below or go to the next question.

Article 131 In each session each of the groups


Parliament has the right to obtain the Declaration of emergency as many answer questions orally in the plenary as General Directors have offered. The same right belongs to the Minister General is not attached, if Mixed Group did not exist. The questions of which application is being made emergency declaration may be submitted up to twenty-four hours before the start of the plenary. The advertising will be ensured by their distribution at the beginning of the session, without prejudice to the subsequent publication in the Gazette of the General Council. "

Article 132 1. The questions with oral response may lead to a motion in which the General Council state their position. This motion of censure to the Government will be in any case.

2. The motion will be presented to the Audit Office by the Director General who has formulated the question and two General Directors, or a parliamentary group the day after the substantiation of the question, and will be included in the agenda of the next session. The debate and vote will be carried out in accordance with the provisions for the proposed agreement.

Chapter five. Discussions about the direction of Government policy Article 133 1. Every year, the General Council held a debate on the Government's overall policy orientation. The discussion will start with the intervention of the head of Government who will present the relevant report to the Full.

2. Made the presentation of the head of Government, the Syndic General may suspend the session for a period of no more than twenty-four hours. Afterwards, there will be a shift of interventions of the parliamentary groups for a time of fifteen minutes for each. The head of Government and the Ministers will be able to make use of the Word as many times as it alone. the requests. Each intervention will result in the opening of a replica to a proportional time.

3. The end of the debate, the Syndic General set a deadline of no more than twenty-four hours so that the parliamentary groups to present motions that must be congruent with the subject matter of debate and that may not include a motion of censure.

4. The proposals accepted are discussed according to the order of presentation. Can be defended for a time of no more than ten minutes to parliamentary group. In turn, each parliamentary group will be able to indicate its position on the other proposals presented and will require the text you submitted to vote.

5. Once the discussion, each proposal is subject to a vote in the same order in which they were exposed. Approved a proposal, all the others will vote only in what refers to points which are not identical or that it does not conflict with that.

Article 134 1. Upon request of the head of Government may be held discussions on political action and Government. They can also apply for them a quarter of General Directors, each of whom can only urge one on each session. The Syndic General shall summon the full for this purpose in the fifteen days. May also take place these debates if they so choose to the Audit Office in accordance with the Board of Presidents, on the initiative of a parliamentary group.

2. The debate will begin in all cases with the involvement of a member of the Government and will be held in accordance with provisions of the previous article.

Chapter six. Of the programs, plans and statements of the Government Article 135 1. If the Government sent to the General Council a programme, a plan or a communication in connection with which wishes that the General Council will be uttered, the Audit Office you sort the publication or the distribution among the General Directors and included in the order of the day corresponding to be debated in the plenary.

2. The discussion will start with the intervention of a member of the Government. Then, you can make use of the word the parliamentary groups for a time of fifteen minutes.

3. the debate, Parliamentary groups, Finite may present motions that will be processed in accordance with the rules of chapter IX of this title.

Chapter seven. The briefings Article 136 1. At the request of the Council or of a Committee, or on its own initiative, the head of Government or any of the Ministers are multiples to get an information session in front of the General Council or of a Committee, subject to inclusion of the item in the order of the day.

2. The session will consist of an oral presentation of the head of Government or of one of the Ministers. Resumption of the session, General counselors will be able to ask questions or make comments. The session will close with the answer of the head of Government or the Minister.

Eighth chapter. The control of delegated legislation Article 137 1. When, in accordance with the provisions in art. 59 of the Constitution, the Government approved legislative decree, this will be submitted to the Audit Office that ordered the publication in the Gazette of the General Council. "

2. If during the following month no Director General or any parliamentary group there are formulated objections, it is understood that the Government has properly exercised the legislative function that had delegated to the General Council. If, on the other hand, a counselor or a parliamentary group to formulate any objection, it will go to the Audit Office, which will transfer to competent legislative Commission to issue a report. This will be debated and voted on in plenary.

3. This control procedure does not apply when the delegation Act sets out a procedure itself.

Chapter nine. Of the proposals according to Article 138 1. A parliamentary group or a Director General with the signature of two members of the House, they can present the full proposals agree on matters not legislation.

The proposals will be addressed in writing to the Audit Office, which, once accepted for processing, it shall send the copy to sort publication and in Government. The proposal will open a period of fifteen days during which the parliamentary groups can submit amendments. Sold out this time, will be included in the agenda of the plenary.

2. The discussion of the proposed agreement will begin with an exhibition of one of the proposants to a maximum of ten minutes. Then there will be a shift to the parliamentary groups have submitted amendments and another for those who haven't done so. Once you have completed these procedures, the parliamentary group or General proposants Directors will indicate amendments which accept and the final text subject to voting.

While transitional provision cannot be to carry out the publications in the "Bulletin of the General Council" provided for in the present Regulation, will have the same effects the publication made by the traditional procedure of edicts, that for a maximum period of six months from the date of entry into force of this regulation.

Final provisions


First the reform of these regulations will be carried out exclusively on the initiative of the General Council, at the proposal of two parliamentary groups or one-fifth of the Directors General must submit to the Bureau a text articulated with the modifications that you want to.

The reform of the regulation will be processed as a proposition of law, without the possibility of government intervention.

If the full take into consideration, it will create a Special Commission which will form part of it, in any case, the Presidents of the parliamentary groups.

The approval of the reform will require an absolute majority of the members of the General Council in a vote of all.

Second, the General Council shall be governed solely by the rules of the Constitution, those of this regulation and contained in laws.

Third, this regulation will be published in the "Bulletin of the General Council" and in the "official bulletin of the Principality of Andorra." Shall enter into force on 1 January 1994.

Casa de la Vall, 3 September 1993 Jordi Farràs Forné Syndic General Us the co-princes on sancionem and promulguem and let's get the publication in the official bulletin of the Principality of Andorra.

Joan Martí Alanís François Mitterrand and President of the French Republic and the Bishop of Urgell Co-prince of Andorra Co-prince of Andorra