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DRAFT RESOLUTION NO. 448 /X

Approves the attendance and falters scheme to the Plenary

The presence of the Deputies at the plenary meetings is the subject of registration

obligatorily carried out by the The flawed regime to the Plenary is found

verted on the Resolution of the Assembly of the Republic No 77/2003 of October 11, and

is based on the signature made by each Member on the presences sheet placed for

this effect in the Room of Sessions. The card of Deputy, now created, in addition to replacing

the previous voting card and to own the digital signature and voting functions

electronic, allows its use for marking of presences in Sessions

Plenaries, in the informatics system of the Plenary. It is still the registration of presence

partial, corresponding to the entry during the course of the plenary meeting, until

pores, on days of voting, proceeds to a second moment of verification of

presences for the purpose of the voting quorum. Thus being:

The Assembly of the Republic resolves, in accordance with Article 166 (5) of the Constitution

of the Portuguese Republic, the following:

1-Presences at the plenary meetings are checked from the start-of-session registration carried out personally by each deputy, on the respective computer in the Chamber. 2-The support services to the Plenary note officiously in the database that makes the management of the presences, from the information elements in their possession, the Deputies who, for finding themselves on parliamentary mission, do not attend the meeting.

3-Deputies who do not register during the meeting or do not meet on a parliamentary mission is marked lack.

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4-The procedures referred to in the preceding paragraphs report each meeting, and this may be withheld for several periods in a single day.

5-For the purposes of the possible application of sanctions only releases a foul on each day, prevailing regarding the plenary meetings, on the day they take place.

6-Deputies have the right to provide justification for the flawings, in the terms set out in the respective Statute and in the Rules, observing the respective requirements of reasons.

7-A The word of the Deputy makes faith, not lacking for that of additional evidence. When the cause of illness is invoked, however, medical certificate may be required, should the situation extend for more than one week.

8-For the purposes of the possible exercise of that right, the services of support to the Plenary personally deliver to the Deputy or the element of his office that, for the purpose of it, by it has been indicated, upon protocol, the registration of the lack or missing given, on the first day of parliamentary work after the lack. 9-The protocol shall be signed by the himself or the element by him indicated.

10-A The communication expressly mentions the deadline for submission of the justification and it will go together in print for such an effect.

11-A The justification of the flawed should be submitted within five days of the notification or, in the case of continued shortages, from the notification of the last lack. 12-For the purpose of justification of missing, they are counted on the deadline only the parliamentary days.

13-The fulfilment of the period shall be due to the date of entry of the justification in the Office of the President of the Assembly of the Republic.

14-Seated the deadline, the justification is not appreciated and the lack is counted as unwarranted.

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15-The support services to the Plenary shall communicate to the person concerned, pursuant to paragraphs 8 a to 10 and within three days, the decision of the competent entity to judge the justification of the falters, in the case of being negative. 16-The support services to the Plenary send to the President of the Assembly of the Republic the list of all unjustified trials in each month, within the first three working days of the subsequent second month.

17-The President of the Assembly sends to personally notify each of the missing Members, in the aforementioned terms.

18-Decorrids eight days after the receipt of the notification by the missing Member, verified by the delivery protocol of the same, the case is referred to the President of the Assembly for decision. 19-The dispatch of the President of the Assembly shall be referred to the relevant departments for communication to the Deputy and eventual follow-up to the sanctions process.

20-Addressing the loss of the term of office of the Deputy, the order of the President of the Assembly, with the process concerning, shall be referred to the Ethics Commission for Opinion. 21-A The lack of any previously scheduled vote, in Plenary, follows the scheme of the flawed to plenary meetings, as to the justification and the legal effects on the financial penalties. 22-Only receive autonomous treatment the votes to the votes of the Deputies given as present in the respective register of the respective plenary meeting. 23-The Resolution of the Assembly of the Republic No 77/2003 of October 11 is repealed. Palace of S. Bento, on March 12, 2009.

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The Board of Directors,

José Manuel Lello Ribeiro de Almeida

President

Jorge Fernando Magalhães da Costa

PSD GP Representative

José Batista Master Soeiro

Representative of the GP of the CFP

João Guilherme Noble Fragoso Rebelo

Representative of the GP of the CDS-PP

Helena Maria Moura Pinto

Representative of the BE GP

Francisco Miguel Baudoin Madeira Lopes

Representative of the GP of the PEV