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In accordance with the provisions of the new Rules of Procedure of the Congress of Deputies, adopted definitively by the House in its session of 10 of the current and whose entry into force has taken place today when it is published With this same date in the "Official Gazette of the General Courts" the publication of the aforementioned text of the Rules of the Congress of Deputies is ordered in the "Official Gazette of the State".
Palace of the Congress of Deputies on February 24, 1982. The President of the Congress of Deputies, Landelino Lavilla Alsina.
CONGRESS OF DEPUTIES RULES
PRELIMINARY TITLE
OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL SESSION OF CONGRESS
Article 1.
General Elections to the Congress of Deputies will meet, in accordance with the provisions of Article 68, 6 of the Constitution, in a constitutive session on the day and time indicated in the Royal Decree of call.
Art. 2.
The constitutive session will be chaired initially by the elected senior member of the present, assisted, as Secretaries, by the two youngest.
Art. 3.
1. The President shall declare the session open and one of the Secretaries shall read the Royal Decree of convocation, the relation of elected Members and the contested electoral-electoral resources, with the indication of the elected representatives may be affected by the resolution of the same.
2. The election of the Bureau of Congress shall be followed in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 37 of this Regulation.
Art. 4.
1. The votes will be completed, the elected members will occupy their posts. The President-elect shall give and request from the other Members the oath or promise to abide by the Constitution, to which effect they shall be called in alphabetical order. The President shall declare the Congress of Deputies constituted, following the session.
2. The constitution of the Congress shall be communicated by its President to the King, the Senate and the Government.
Art. 5.
Within the 15 days following the conclusion of the constitutive session, the formal opening session of the legislature will take place.
TITLE FIRST
OF THE STATUTE OF DEPUTIES
CHAPTER FIRST
Of the Rights of Deputies
Art. 6.
1. The deputies will have the right to attend the sessions of the Congress plenary session and those of the Commissions to participate. They may attend, without a vote, the meetings of the Commissions which are not a party.
2. Members shall have the right to be at least a part of a Commission and to exercise the powers and duties conferred on them by this Regulation.
Art. 7.
1. In order to ensure the best performance of their parliamentary functions, the Members of Parliament, with prior knowledge of the respective parliamentary group, shall have the power to obtain from the Public Administrations the data, reports or documents held by them. these.
2. The request shall be directed, in any case, through the Chair of the Congress and the requested Administration shall provide the requested documentation or express to the President of the Congress, within a period not exceeding thirty days and for its most convenient transfer to the applicant, the reasons based on the right to prevent it.
Art. 8.
1. Members shall receive an economic allocation which enables them to fulfil their function effectively and with dignity.
2. They shall also be entitled to aid, allowances and allowances for expenditure which is essential for the performance of their duties.
3. All perceptions of Members will be subject to the general tax rules.
4. Each year, the Bureau of the Congress shall fix the amount of the Members ' perceptions and their modalities within the corresponding budgetary appropriations.
Art. 9.
1. It shall be responsible for the budget of the Congress for the payment of social security contributions and for the mutual benefits of those Members who, as a result of their parliamentary dedication, no longer provide the service which motivated their affiliation or belonging to those.
2. The Congress of Deputies will be able to carry out with the Social Security Managers the necessary concerts to comply with the provisions of the previous paragraph and to affiliate, in the regime that comes, to the Deputies who so wish and that with Before they are not discharged into Social Security.
3. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall extend, in the case of civil servants who are in a position of leave of absence, to the shares of passive classes.
CHAPTER II
Of Parliamentary prerogatives
Art. 10.
Members shall enjoy inviolability, even after they have ceased their term of office, by the views expressed in the performance of their duties.
Art. 11.
During the period of his term of office, the deputies will also enjoy immunity and will only be detained in case of a flagrant crime. They may not be charged or prosecuted without prior authorization from Congress.
Art. 12.
The President of the Congress, once known for the arrest of a Deputy or any other judicial or governmental action that may hinder the exercise of his mandate, shall immediately take all necessary measures to safeguard the rights and prerogatives of the House and its members.
Art. 13.
1. Having received a request for authorization from the Congress referred to in Article 11, the President, after agreement adopted by the Bureau, shall forward it, within five days, to the Commission of the Statute of Deputies. Requests that are not submitted and documented in the manner required by the applicable procedural laws shall not be admitted.
2. The Commission shall complete its work within the maximum period of 30 days after the hearing of the person concerned. The hearing may be withdrawn in writing within the time limit which the Commission may set before the Commission itself. 3. The work of the Commission shall be completed, the matter, duly documented, shall be submitted to the first ordinary plenary session of the House.
Art. 14.
1. Within eight days following the agreement of the Chamber's plenary session on the granting or refusal of the authorization requested, the President of the Congress shall forward the authorization to the judicial authority, warning him of the obligation of communicate to the Chamber the Autos and Sentences that are dictated and personally affect the Deputy.
2. The request shall be deemed to be denied if the House has not acted within 60 calendar days, computed during the session from the day following the receipt of the request.
CHAPTER III
From the duties of the Deputies
Art. 15.
Deputies will have a duty to attend the sessions of the Congress and the Commissions in which they are a party.
Art. 16.
Deputies are obliged to adapt their conduct to the Rules of Procedure and to respect the order, courtesy and discipline of the Parliament, as well as not to disclose the actions which, according to the provisions of the Rules of Procedure, may have exceptionally the character of the secret.
Art. 17.
Members may not invoke or make use of their status as parliamentarians for the exercise of commercial, industrial or professional activity.
Art. 18.
1. Members shall be obliged to make a notarial statement of their assets and of those activities which provide or may provide economic income.
2. The said declaration shall be made within two months of the date on which each Member State has fully assumed the status of a Member.
3. The Members shall be obliged to make available to the Commission of the Statute of the Members, provided that it is necessary for their work, the authorized copy of that declaration.
Art. 19.
1. The deputies must observe at all times the rules on incompatibilities established in the Constitution and the Electoral Law.
2. The Commission of the Statute of the Members of the European Parliament shall forward to the plenary its proposals on the situation of incompatibility of each Member within 20 days from the date of the full assumption by the Member State of the status of the communication, which must be made, of any alteration in the statement made for the purposes of incompatibilities.
3. Declared and notified the incompatibility, the Deputy Incourse in it will have eight days to opt between the seat and the incompatible office. If you do not exercise the option within the prescribed period, you will be deemed to resign from your seat.
CHAPTER IV
From the acquisition, suspension, and loss of the Diputado condition
Art. 20.
1. The elected Deputy will acquire the full status of Deputy for the joint fulfilment of the following requirements:
1. Present in the General Secretariat the credential issued by the corresponding organ of the electoral administration.
2. Complete your statement for the purposes of the incompatibilities examination, reflecting the data relating to the profession and public office.
3. To lend, in the first session of the plenary session to attend, the promise or oath to abide by the Constitution.
2. The rights and prerogatives will be effective from the moment the Deputy is proclaimed elected. However, three plenary sessions held without the Diputado acquiring the status of such, in accordance with the preceding paragraph, shall have no rights or prerogatives until such acquisition takes place.
Art. 21.
1. Deputy will be suspended in his parliamentary rights and duties:
1. In cases where appropriate, by application of the rules of parliamentary discipline laid down in this Regulation.
2. When, granted by the House, the authorisation which is the subject of a request and the order for processing is signed, it shall be in a state of preventive imprisonment and shall be in place for the duration of the proceedings.
2. The Member shall be suspended in his or her rights, prerogatives and parliamentary duties when a final sentence of conviction is upheld or where compliance implies the impossibility of exercising the parliamentary function.
Art. 22.
The Deputy will lose his/her condition for the following reasons:
1. By a firm court decision to annul the choice or proclamation of the Deputy.
2. By death or incapacitation of the Deputy, declared by a firm judicial decision.
3. By the end of the term of office, at the end of the term of office or the dissolution of the Chamber, without prejudice to the extension of the term of office of members, holders and alternates, of the Permanent Diputación, to the establishment of the new Chamber.
4. By resignation of the Deputy, before the Congressional Bureau.
TITLE II
OF THE PARLIAMENTARY GROUPS
Art. 23.
1. Members, in numbers not less than 15, may be members of the Parliamentary Group. Members of one or more political groups may also be members of the Parliamentary Group, which, even if they do not meet this minimum, have obtained a number of seats not less than five and at least 15% of the votes cast. corresponding to the constituencies in which he or she has filed an application or five percent of those issued in the whole of the Nation.
2. In no case can they constitute a separate Parliamentary Group belonging to the same party. Nor will the Members of the Parliamentary Group be able to form a separate Parliamentary Group, which, at the time of the elections, belonged to political groups that have not faced the electorate.
Art. 24.
1. The constitution of Parliamentary Groups shall be made within five days of the constitutive session of the Congress, by writing to the Chamber's Bureau.
2. In that letter, which shall be signed by all who wish to constitute the Group, the name of the group and the names of all the members, their spokesman and the Members who may be able to replace it shall be recorded.
3. Members who are not members of any of the constituted parliamentary groups may be associated with one of them, by means of a request which, accepted by the group's spokesman to be associated, shall be addressed to the Bureau of the Chamber within the period referred to in paragraph 1 above.
4. The partners shall be computed for the determination of the minima set out in the preceding article, as well as for setting the number of Members of each Group in the various Commissions.
Art. 25.
1. Members who, as set out in the preceding articles, will not be included in a Parliamentary Group, within the time limits specified, will be incorporated into the Joint Group.
2. No Member will be able to be part of more than one Parliamentary Group.
Art. 26.
Deputies who acquire their status after the constitutive session of the Congress will be required to join a Parliamentary Group within five days of this acquisition. The acceptance of the spokesman for the relevant Parliamentary Group must be recorded in order to allow incorporation. Otherwise they will be incorporated into the Joint Parliamentary Group.
Art. 27.
1. The change from one Parliamentary Group to another with the exception of the Mixed Group may only be operated within the first five days of each session, in any case the provisions of the previous Article are applicable.
2. Where the components of a Parliamentary Group other than the Joint Group are reduced during the course of the legislation to a number less than half the minimum required for their constitution, the Group shall be dissolved, and its members shall pass automatically to be a part of that.
Art. 28.
1. The Congress shall make available to the Parliamentary, local and material groups sufficient materials and shall allocate to them, under its budget, an identical fixed grant for all and another variable according to the number of Members of each of the Member States. them. The amounts shall be fixed by the Bureau of the House within the limits of the corresponding budget consignment.
2. The Parliamentary Groups shall keep a specific accounting of the grant referred to in the previous paragraph, which shall be made available to the Bureau of Congress whenever it is requested by it.
Art. 29.
All Parliamentary Groups, with the exceptions provided for in this Regulation, enjoy the same rights.
TITLE III
OF THE CONGRESS ORGANIZATION
CHAPTER FIRST
From the Table
SECTION I. OF THE FUNCTIONS OF THE BUREAU AND ITS MEMBERS
Art. 30.
1. The Bureau is the governing body of the Chamber and holds the collegiate representation of the Chamber in the acts to which it attends.
2. The Bureau shall be composed of the President of the Congress, four Vice-Presidents and four Secretaries.
3. The President directs and coordinates the Bureau's action.
Art. 31.
1. The Bureau is responsible for the following tasks:
1. Adopt as many decisions and measures require the organization of the work and the internal regime and government of the House.
2. Draw up the draft budget of the Congress of Deputies, direct and control its implementation and present to the House, at the end of each financial year, a report on its implementation.
3. To order the costs of the Chamber, without prejudice to the delegations that may agree.
4. To qualify, in accordance with the Rules of Procedure, the letters and documents of a parliamentary nature, as well as to declare the admissibility or inadmissibility thereof.
5. To decide on the processing of all parliamentary documents and documents, in accordance with the rules laid down in this Regulation.
6. To schedule the general lines of action of the House, to set the schedule for the activities of the Plenary and the Commissions for each session and to coordinate the work of its various bodies, all of this after the hearing of the Board of Directors Spokespeople.
7. Any other persons entrusted to it by this Regulation and those not assigned to a specific body.
2. If a Member or a Parliamentary Group disagrees with the decision taken by the Bureau in the exercise of the functions referred to in points 4. and 5. the previous paragraph may request its review. The Bureau shall decide definitively, on the basis of a reasoned decision, to hear the Board of Portsates.
Art. 32.
1. The President of the Congress has the representation of the House, ensures the good progress of the work, directs the debates, maintains the order of the same and orders the payments, without prejudice to the delegations that it can confer.
2. It is for the President to comply and enforce the Regulation, interpreting it in cases of doubt and supplying it with the cases of omission. Where, in the exercise of this supplementary function, a decision of a general nature is proposed, it must be considered in favour of the Bureau and the Board of Portspersons.
3. The President also performs all the other functions conferred upon him by the Constitution, the laws and this Regulation.
Art. 33.
The Vice-Presidents, in their order, replace the President, exercising their functions in case of vacancy, absence or impossibility of this. They also carry out any other functions entrusted to them by the President or the Bureau.
Art. 34.
The Secretaries supervise and authorize, with the approval of the President, the minutes of the plenary sessions, the Bureau and the Board of Portals, as well as the certifications to be issued; they assist the President in the sessions to ensure the order in the debates and the correction in the votes; they collaborate to the normal development of the works of the Chamber according to the provisions of the President; they exercise, moreover, any other functions that the President or Bureau.
Art. 35.
1. The Bureau shall convene the President and shall be advised by the Secretary-General, who shall draw up the minutes of the meetings and shall take care, under the direction of the President, of the implementation of the agreements.
2. The appointment of Secretary-General will be held by the Congressional Bureau on the proposal of its President, among the Letters of the Courts with more than five years of effective services.
SECTION II. OF THE ELECTION OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BUREAU
Art. 36.
1. The plenary session will elect the members of the Bureau in the constitutional session of the Congress.
2. A new election will be held for the members of the Bureau when the sentences placed on the electoral-electoral resources will change the ownership of more than ten percent of the seats. Such a choice will take place once the new Members have acquired the full status of such members.
Art. 37.
1. In the election of President, each Deputy will write only one name on the ballot. He will be elected the one who gets the vote of the absolute majority of the members of the House. If none of the votes are taken by the majority, the choice between those who have reached the two largest votes will be repeated and the one who gets the most votes will be elected.
2. The four Vice-Presidents shall be elected simultaneously. Each Deputy will write only one name on the ballot. The four who obtain the highest number of votes shall be elected, by successive order. In the same way the four Secretaries will be chosen.
3. If there is a tie in a vote, successive votes shall be held between the candidates equal to the votes until the tie is settled.
Art. 38.
Vacancies that occur in the Bureau during the legislature will be covered by the election of the plenary in the form set out in the previous article, adapted in their forecasts to the reality of the vacancies to be filled.
CHAPTER II
From the Board of Portletas
Art. 39.
1. The spokespersons of the Parliamentary Groups constitute the Board of Portals, which will meet under the chairmanship of the President of the Congress. It shall be convened on its own initiative or at the request of two parliamentary groups or one fifth of the members of the House.
2. Meetings of the Board shall take into account the Government to send, if appropriate, a representative, who may be accompanied, if appropriate, by a person who attends him.
3. Meetings of the Board shall be attended by at least one Vice-President, one of the Secretaries of the Chamber and the Secretary-General. The spokespersons or their alternates may be accompanied by a member of their group who shall not be entitled to vote.
4. The decisions of the Board of Portalms shall always be taken on the basis of the weighted voting criterion.
CHAPTER III
From Commissions
SECTION I. OF THE COMMISSIONS. GENERAL RULES
Art. 40.
1. The Commissions, unless otherwise required, will be formed by the members who appoint the Parliamentary Groups in the number who, with respect to each, will indicate the Congressional Bureau, the Board of Portals, and in proportion to the importance of number of those in the Chamber.
2. Parliamentary Groups may replace one or more of their members attached to a Commission, on the other hand or other members of the same Group, on written notice to the President of the Congress. If the substitution is only for a given matter, debate or session, the communication shall be made orally or in writing to the President of the Commission and, if it is indicated that it is of a purely possible nature, the President shall admit as a member of the Commission, without distinction, to the substitute or to the replacement.
3. Members of the Government may be able to assist the Commissions with a voice, but they may only vote in those committees.
Art. 41.
The Commissions, with the exceptions provided for in this Regulation, elect from among its members a Bureau, composed of a President, two Vice-Presidents and two Secretaries. The election will be verified in accordance with what is established for the election of the Congressional Bureau, adapted to the different number of posts to be filled.
Art. 42.
1. The Commissions shall be convened by its President, in agreement with the President of the Congress, either on his own initiative or at the request of two Parliamentary Groups or one-fifth of the members of the Commission.
2. The President of the Congress may convene and preside over any Commission even if he only has a vote in those of which he is a party.
Art. 43.
1. The Commissions will know about the projects, proposals or issues that they entrust to them, according to their respective competence, the Congressional Bureau.
2. The Bureau of Congress may, on its own initiative or at the request of an interested Commission, agree that on a matter of the main competence of a Commission, another Commission or other Commissions shall report.
3. The Commissions shall conclude the processing of any matter within a maximum period of two months, except in those cases where the Constitution or this Regulation imposes a different period or the Bureau of the Chamber, under the circumstances of the circumstances. exceptional, agree to extend or reduce it.
Art. 44.
The Commissions, through the President of the Congress, will be able to gather:
1. The information and documentation required by the Government and the Public Administrations, as set out in Article 7 (2).
2. The presence before them of the members of the Government to report on matters related to their respective Departments.
3. The presence of competent authorities and public officials on the basis of the subject matter of the debate, in order to inform the Commission.
4. The appearance of other relevant persons in the field, for the purpose of informing and advising the Commission.
Art. 45.
Lawyers shall provide the legal technical advice necessary to carry out the tasks assigned to them in the Commissions and in respect of their Messes and Ponences, and shall draw up their corresponding reports and opinions, collecting the agreements adopted.
SECTION II. OF THE STANDING COMMITTEES
Art. 46.
1. The following are legislative standing committees:
1. Constitutional.
2. Foreign Affairs.
3. Justice and Home Affairs.
4. Defense.
5. Education and Culture.
6. Economy, Trade and Finance.
7. Budgets.
8. Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries.
9. Industry, Public Works and Services.
10. Social and employment policy.
11. Public Administration regime.
2. It is also the Permanent Commissions that must be constituted by legal provision and the following:
1. Regulation.
2. Statute for Members.
3. Requests.
3. The Permanent Commissions referred to in the preceding paragraphs shall be constituted within 10 days of the Congress ' constitutive session.
Art. 47.
The Rules Committee will be formed by the President of the House, who will chair it, by the other members of the Congressional Bureau and by the Members appointed by the Parliamentary Groups, in accordance with the provisions of the Article 40 of this Regulation.
Art. 48.
1. The Commission of the Statute of Deputies shall be composed of one member of each of the Parliamentary Groups. It will have a President, a Vice President and a Secretary, who will correspond, in their order, to the representatives of the three most important Parliamentary Groups at the beginning of the Legislature.
2. The Commission shall act as a preparatory body for the resolutions of the plenary when, in accordance with the Rules of Procedure, it is required to rule on matters affecting the Statute of Members unless the proposal corresponds to the Presidency or the Congress Bureau.
3. The Commission shall forward to the plenary, duly articulated and reasoned, the proposals which have been formalised within its own right.
Art. 49.
1. It shall apply to the Committee on Petitions as set out in paragraph 1 of the previous Article.
2. The Commission shall examine each individual or collective request received by the Congress of Deputies and may agree to its referral, as appropriate, through the President of the Chamber:
1. To the Ombudsman.
2. To the Commission of the Congress which is aware of the matter in question.
3. To the Senate, to the Government, to the Courts, to the Fiscal Ministry or to the Autonomous Community, Diputación, Cabildo or City Council to whom it corresponds.
3. The Commission may also agree, if the referral referred to in the previous paragraph, does not proceed, the file of the request without further formalities.
4. In any event, receipt of the request shall be acknowledged and the agreement adopted shall be communicated to the petitioner.
Art. 50.
1. The Chamber's plenary session, on a proposal from the Bureau, heard by the Board of Portsates, may agree to the creation of other Commissions which are permanent in the legislature in which the agreement is adopted.
2. The establishment agreement shall lay down the criterion for the distribution of powers between the Commission set up and those which, where appropriate, may be affected.
3. For the same procedure referred to in paragraph 1, the dissolution of the Commissions referred to in this Article may be agreed.
SECTION III. OF THE NON-PERMANENT COMMISSIONS
Art. 51.
Non-Permanent Commissions are created for a particular job. They are extinguished at the end of the work entrusted and, in any case, at the end of the legislature.
Art. 52.
1. The Congress, on a proposal from the Government, the Bureau, two Parliamentary Groups or one fifth of the members of the House, may agree to the creation of a Commission of Inquiry into any matter of public interest.
2. The Research Committees will develop a work plan and will be able to appoint Ponencias in their midst and require the presence, through the Presidency of the Congress, of any person to be heard. The ends on which the requested person is required to report shall be communicated to him at least three days in advance.
3. The Presidency of the House, heard by the Commission, may, where appropriate, issue the appropriate procedural rules.
4. The conclusions of these committees, which will not be binding on the courts and will not affect judicial decisions, will have to be translated into an opinion that will be discussed in the Chamber's plenary session. The President of the Congress, heard the Board of Portsates, is empowered to order the debate, to grant the word and to fix the times of the interventions.
5. The conclusions adopted by the Chamber's plenary session will be published in the Official Journal of the Cortes General > and communicated to the Government, without prejudice to the Congressional Bureau's transfer of the same to the Fiscal Ministry for the financial year. where appropriate, of the appropriate actions.
6. At the request of the Parliamentary Proposer Group they will also be published in the Official Journal of the Courts > the rejected private votes.
Art. 53.
The creation of non-permanent commissions other than those regulated in the previous article and their eventual joint or joint character with respect to other existing ones, may be agreed by the Congress Bureau, on its own initiative, of two Parliamentary or fifth-party groups of the members of the House and after hearing of the Board of Portsmen.
CHAPTER IV
Full
Art. 54.
The Congress plenary will be convened by its President, either on his own initiative or at the request of at least two Parliamentary Groups or one-fifth of the members of the House.
Art. 55.
1. The Members shall sit in the Chamber in accordance with their membership of the Parliamentary Groups and shall always occupy the same seat.
2. There will be a special bank for the members of the government in the session hall.
3. They shall have access to the sitting room only, in addition to the persons indicated, the officials of the Courts in the exercise of their office and those who are expressly authorized by the President.
CHAPTER V
From the Permanent Diputación
Art. 56.
1. The Permanent Diputación will be chaired by the President of the Congress and will form part of it a minimum of twenty-one members, who will represent the Parliamentary Groups in proportion to their numerical importance.
2. The fixing of the number of members shall be made in accordance with Article 40 (1). Each Parliamentary Group shall designate the number of Members of Parliament and the number of Members of Parliament.
3. The Diputación will elect from among its members two Vice-Presidents and two Secretaries, in accordance with the provisions established for the election of the Congressional Bureau, adapted to the different number of posts to be filled.
4. The Permanent Diputación shall be convened by the President, on his own initiative or at the request of two Parliamentary Groups or one fifth of the members of that Party.
Art. 57.
It is up to the Permanent Diputación to ensure the powers of the House when it is not gathered and in addition:
1. In cases of dissolution or expiry of the mandate of the Congress of Deputies:
a) To assume all the powers that in relation to the Decree-laws attributes to the Congress of the Deputies article 86 of the Constitution.
b) Exercise the powers that respect the states of alarm, exception and site attributes to the House Article 116 of the Constitution.
2. In the periods of time between sessions, exercise the initiative provided for in Article 73, 2 of the Constitution.
Art. 58.
It shall apply to the sessions of the Permanent Diputación and to its functioning as established for the Plenary in this Regulation.
Art. 59.
After the holding of general elections, the Permanent Diputación will give an account to the Congress, once constituted, of the matters it has dealt with and of the decisions taken.
CHAPTER VI
From personal and material means
Art. 60.
1. The Congress of Deputies shall have the personal and material resources necessary for the development of its functions, in particular technical, documentation and advisory services.
2. In particular, the Committee on Budgets will be provided with personal and material resources, in order to carry out the relevant technical advice on those aspects of the legislative activity that have an impact on income and on the public expenditure.
3. The relation of the positions of the work and the determination of functions corresponding to each one of them will be done by the Bureau of the Congress.
TITLE IV
OF GENERAL OPERATION PROVISIONS
CHAPTER FIRST
Of the sessions
Art. 61.
1. Congress will meet annually in two regular sessions, from September to December and from February to June.
2. Outside those periods, the Chamber may only hold extraordinary sessions at the request of the Government, the Permanent Diputación or the absolute majority of the members of Congress. The request shall contain the order of the day proposed for the extraordinary session requested.
3. The Presidency will convene the extraordinary session if it is asked, in accordance with the Constitution, by whom it establishes the previous paragraph and in accordance with the agenda that has been proposed to it. In any event, the House shall remain in place until the time the agenda for which it was convened has been exhausted.
Art. 62.
1. Sessions shall, as a rule, be held in days between Tuesday and Friday, inclusive, each week.
2. They may, however, be held on days other than those indicated:
1. By agreement taken in plenary or in the Commission, on the initiative of their respective Presidents, of two Parliamentary Groups or one-fifth of the Members of the Chamber or of the Commission.
2. By agreement of the Congressional Bureau, accepted by the Board of Portletas.
Art. 63.
Plenary sessions will be public with the following exceptions:
1. When dealing with issues concerning the decorum of the Chamber or its members, or the suspension of a Deputy.
2. When discussing proposals, opinions, reports or conclusions drawn up within the Commission of the Statute of the Members of the Commission or made by the Committees of Inquiry.
3. When the plenary session is agreed by an absolute majority of its members, at the initiative of the Bureau of Congress, the Government, two Parliamentary Groups or one fifth of the members of the House. The request for a secret session shall be put to a vote without debate and the session shall continue with the agreed character.
Art. 64.
1 The sessions of the Commissions will not be public. However, duly accredited representatives of the social media may attend, except where those are of a secret nature.
2. The meetings of the Commissions shall be secret when they are agreed by an absolute majority of their members, on the initiative of their respective Bureau, the Government, two Parliamentary Groups or one fifth of their components.
3. In any case, the meetings and proceedings of the Commission of the Statute of Deputies and of the Committees of Inquiry shall be secret.
Art. 65.
1 Of the sessions of the plenary session and the commissions shall be drawn up, which shall contain a brief relationship of the subjects discussed, persons involved, incidents produced and agreements adopted.
2. The minutes will be signed by one of the Secretaries with the approval of the President, and will be made available to the deputies at the General Secretariat of the Congress. In the event that no claim is made on its content within 10 days of the conclusion of the session, it shall be deemed to have been approved; otherwise, it shall be submitted to the decision of the body concerned at its next meeting.
Art. 66.
Senators will be able to attend the sessions of the plenary session and of the commissions that do not have a secret character.
CHAPTER II
From the order of the day
Art. 67.
1. The agenda of the plenary session will be set by the president, according to the Board of Portmanteres.
2. The agenda of the Commissions shall be set by its respective Bureau, in agreement with the President of the House, taking into account the timetable set by the Congressional Bureau.
3. The Government may request that a matter be included in a specific session as a matter of priority, provided that the matter has complied with the regulatory procedures that make it fit to be included on the agenda.
4. On the initiative of a Parliamentary or Government Group, the Board of Portlets may, for reasons of urgency and unanimity, agree to include on the agenda of a given case even if the proceedings have not yet been completed. regulatory.
Art. 68.
1 The agenda of the plenary session may be altered by agreement of the plenary session, on a proposal from the president or at the request of two parliamentary groups or one-fifth of the members of the House.
2. The agenda of a Commission may be altered by agreement of the Commission, on a proposal from its President or at the request of two Parliamentary Groups or one-fifth of the Members of the Parliament.
3. In one case and another case, in the case of including a case, the case must have complied with the regulatory procedures that allow it to be in a position to be included.
CHAPTER III
From the debates
Art. 69.
No debate may begin without the prior distribution, to all Members with the right to participate in the plenary session or the Commission, where appropriate, at least forty-eight hours in advance, of the report, opinion or documentation to be used as a basis in the same, unless otherwise agreed by the Bureau of the Congress or the Commission, duly justified.
Art. 70.
1. No Member will be able to speak without asking for and obtaining the floor from the President. If a Member called by the Presidency is not present, it is understood that he has renounced the use of the word.
2. The speeches will be spoken personally and in a lively voice. The speaker will be able to speak from the floor or from the seat.
3. No one can be interrupted when I speak, but by the President, to warn him that the time has run out, to call him to the question or to order, to remove the word or to make calls to the order to the House or to any of its members or to the public.
4. The Members who have asked for the word in the same way shall be able to take the turn. After communication to the President and for a specific case, any Member with the right to intervene may be replaced by another Member of the same Parliamentary Group.
5. The members of the Government may use the word whenever they so request, without prejudice to the powers that the President of the House may be responsible for in order to order the debates.
6. After the time set, the President shall, after twice indicating to the speaker who concludes, withdraw the word.
Art. 71.
1 When, in the opinion of the Presidency, in the course of the debates, allusions are made, involving the judgment of value or inaccuracies, on the person or the conduct of a Member, the use of the word may be granted for a period of not more than three minutes, so that, without going into the substance of the matter under discussion, I will strictly reply to the statements made. If the Member exceeds these limits, the President shall immediately withdraw the word.
2. The allusions may not be answered in the same session or in the following session.
3. Where the allusion affects the decorum or dignity of a Parliamentary Group, the President may grant a representative of that group the use of the word for the same time and subject to the conditions laid down in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article. Article.
Art. 72.
1. In any state of the debate, a Member may request that the Regulation be complied with. To this end, you must quote the article or articles whose application you claim. There will be no debate at all, and the resolution that the Presidency will adopt in the light of the allegation made must be adhered to.
2. Any Member may also request, during the discussion or before voting, the reading of the rules or documents which it believes to be conducive to the illustration of the matter in question. The Presidency may refuse readings it considers to be irrelevant or unnecessary.
Art. 73.
1. In any debate, the one that was contradicted in his arguments by another or other interveners, he will have the right to replicate or rectify for a single time and for a maximum of five minutes
2. The provisions of this Regulation for any debate shall be without prejudice to the powers of the President to order the debate and votes heard by the Board of Portspersons, and to assess their importance, extend or reduce and the number and the number of votes. time of the interventions of the Parliamentary Groups or of the Members, as well as to accumulate, with a weighting of the circumstances of Groups and subjects, all that in a given case may correspond to a Parliamentary Group.
Art. 74.
1. If there is no specific provision, it shall be understood that in any discussion there is one turn in favour and one against. The duration of the interventions in a discussion on any subject or matter except as required by this Regulation shall not exceed ten minutes.
2. If the debate is not qualified as a whole, the shifts will be fifteen minutes, and, after them, the other Parliamentary Groups may set their position in interventions that do not exceed ten minutes.
Art. 75.
1. The statements by the Joint Parliamentary Group may take place through a single Member and for the same time as the other Parliamentary Groups, provided that all the members present so agree and make it to the Presidency of the Council. Chamber, by means of the spokesperson or Deputy who replaces it, the agreement adopted.
2. In the absence of such an agreement, no Member of the Joint Parliamentary Group will be able to speak in the Parliamentary Group for more than one third of the time set for each Parliamentary Group and no more than three Members will be able to speak. Instead of the third part, the time will be half and instead of three Deputies will be two, when the time resulting from the split by three would not be equal to or greater than five minutes.
3. If there are discrepancies in who to intervene, the President will decide in the act on the basis of the actual differences of position, and may refuse the word and all.
4. All general shifts in the intervention of the Parliamentary Groups will be initiated by the Joint Parliamentary Group.
Art. 76.
The closing of a discussion can always be agreed by the Presidency. according to the Bureau, when I estimate that a matter is sufficiently debated. You will also be able to agree at the request of the spokesperson for a Parliamentary Group. Around this closing request, you can speak for a maximum of five minutes each, one speaker against and one for the other.
Art. 77.
When the President, the Vice-Presidents or the Secretaries of the House or the Commission wish to take part in the debate, they will leave their place in the Bureau and will not return to it until the discussion on the subject of the be treated.
CHAPTER IV
Of the votes
Art. 78.
1. In order to adopt agreements, the Chamber and its bodies shall be jointly and with the assistance of the majority of its members.
2. If the time of the vote is reached or if it is held that there is no
Art. 79.
1. The agreements, in order to be valid, shall be approved by the simple majority of the members present in the body concerned, without prejudice to the special majorities established by the Constitution, the Organic Laws or this Regulation.
2. The vote of the deputies is personal and inselectable. No Member may take part in the votes on resolutions affecting its Members ' Statute.
Art. 80.
The votes cannot be interrupted for any reason. During the course of the vote, the Presidency will not grant the floor and no Members will be able to enter or leave the room.
Art. 81.
In the cases provided for in this Regulation and in those who, for their singularity or importance, the Presidency agrees, the vote shall be held at a fixed time, previously announced by the Presidency. If, when the time is set, the debate has not ended, the Presidency will point to the vote.
Art. 82.
The vote may be:
1. By assent to the Presidency's proposal.
2. Ordinary.
3. Public by appeal.
4. Secret.
Art. 83.
The Presidency's proposals will be understood to have been approved when, once stated, they do not give rise to any objections or objections.
Art. 84.
The ordinary vote may take place, by decision of the Presidency, in one of the following ways:
1. First of all those who approve, then those who approve and finally those who abstain. The President will order the recount by the Secretaries if he doubts the outcome or if, even after this publication, some Parliamentary Group will claim it.
2. By electronic procedure that accredits the sense of the vote of each Member and the total results of the vote.
Art. 85.
1. The vote shall be public by call or secret when required by this Regulation or requested by two Parliamentary Groups or one fifth of the Members or Members of the Commission. If there are concurrent requests to the contrary, the secret ballot shall prevail. In no case shall the vote be secret in the legislative procedures.
2. The votes for the investiture of the President of the Government, the motion of censure and the question of trust, will in any case be public by appeal.
Art. 86.
In the public vote by call a Secretary will appoint the deputies and these will respond
Art. 87.
1 Secret voting may be done:
1. By electronic procedure that accredits the total result of the vote, omitting the identification of the voters.
2. By ballot paper in the case of election of persons, when decided by the Presidency and when this modality has been specified in the request for a secret ballot.
2. To carry out the votes referred to in point 2. In the preceding paragraph, the deputies shall be nominated to the Bureau to deposit the ballot in the corresponding ballot box.
Art. 88.
1. Where a tie occurs in a vote, a second vote shall be taken and, if the latter persists, the vote shall be suspended for the period deemed reasonable by the Presidency. After the deadline, the vote shall be repeated and, if the tie is again drawn, the opinion, article, amendment, vote or proposal concerned shall be deemed to be rejected.
2. Voting in the Commission means that there is no tie when the equality of votes, the same as the meaning in which all the members of the Commission belonging to the same Parliamentary Group have voted, could be settled. by weighting the number of votes with which each group counts in plenary.
3. However, in the legislative procedures in which the Commission acts with full competence and in the motions and proposals of non-law in the Commission, and a tie held after the votes provided for in paragraph 1, the Commission shall submit the issue to the plenary decision.
Art. 89.
1. When a vote is verified, or the voting set on the same issue, each Parliamentary Group may explain the vote for a maximum of five minutes.
2. In projects, proposals for law and treaties or international conventions, only the vote after the last vote may be explained, unless it has been divided into clearly differentiated parts for the purpose of the debate, in which case the explanation shall be given. after the last vote for each party. In the cases provided for in this paragraph, the Presidency may extend the time to ten minutes.
3. There will be no explanation of vote when the vote was secret and when all the Parliamentary Groups had had the opportunity to speak in the previous debate. However, and in the latter case, the Parliamentary Group which would have intervened in the debate, and as a result of it would have changed the meaning of its vote, will have the right to explain it.
CHAPTER V
From time to time and document presentation
Art. 90.
1. Save as otherwise provided, the time limits laid down for days in this Regulation shall be computed on working days, and those indicated for months from date to date.
2. Periods in which the Congress does not hold meetings shall be excluded from the calculation, unless the matter in question is included on the agenda for an extraordinary session. The Bureau of the House shall fix the days to be enabled for the sole purpose of completing the formalities enabling the holding of the proceedings.
Art. 91.
1. The House Bureau may agree to extend or reduce the time limits set out in this Regulation.
2. Except for exceptional cases, any period of grace shall not exceed either the deadline or the reductions in half.
Art. 92.
1. The presentation of documents in the Registry of the General Secretariat of the Congress may be done in the days and hours that the Bureau of the Chamber establishes.
2. Documents submitted within the time limit at the Post Office shall be admitted, provided that the conditions required for this purpose are met in the Law of Administrative Procedure.
CHAPTER VI
From the urgency declaration
Art. 93.
1. At the request of the government, two parliamentary groups, or one fifth of the deputies, the Congress Bureau may agree that a matter is dealt with by urgent procedure.
2. If the agreement is taken for an ongoing procedure, the urgency procedure shall apply for the procedures following that procedure.
Art. 94.
Without prejudice to Article 91 of this Regulation, the time limits shall be half of those laid down in an ordinary manner.
CHAPTER VII
From the publications of the Congress and from the publicity of their works
Art. 95.
Will be official publications of the Congress of Deputies:
1. The " Official Gazette of the Generals>, Section Congress of Deputies.
2. The
Permanent and Commissions.
Art. 96.
1. In the
2. The secret sittings shall be set up, with the sole copy of which shall be kept in the Chair. This copy may be consulted by the Members, with the agreement of the Bureau, the agreements adopted shall be published in the
Art. 97.
1. In the "Official Gazette of the General Courts", Section Congress of Deputies, the texts and documents whose publication is required by some precept of this Regulation will be published for due knowledge and appropriate Parliamentary proceedings or ordered by the Presidency.
2. The Presidency of the House may, for reasons of urgency, order, for the purposes of its debate and vote and without prejudice to its due record in the Official Journal, that the documents referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be the subject of reproduction by other mechanical and distribution means to the Members of the body to be discussed.
Art. 98.
1. The Bureau of the House shall take appropriate measures in each case to provide the social media with information on the activities of the various bodies of the Congress of Deputies.
2. The Bureau itself shall regulate the granting of credentials to the graphic and literary representatives of the various media, in order to enable them to access the premises of the parliamentary premises which are intended for them and the sessions to which they may attend.
3 No one may, without being expressly authorized by the President of the Congress, make graphic or sound recordings of the sessions of the Chamber's organs.
CHAPTER VIII
From the parliamentary discipline
SECTION 1. OF THE PENALTIES FOR FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THE DUTIES OF MEMBERS
Art. 99.
1. The Member may be deprived, by agreement of the Bureau, of any or all of the rights granted to him by Articles 6. to 9. of this Regulation in the following cases:
1. When he or she is repeatedly or notorious, I shall leave voluntarily to the Sessions of the Plenary or the Commissions.
2. When I break the duty of secrecy laid down in Article 16 of this Regulation.
2. The agreement of the Bureau, which shall be reasoned, shall indicate the extent and duration of the penalties, which may also be extended to the aliquot portion of the subsidy referred to in Article 23 of this Regulation.
Art. 100.
The prohibition of attending one or two sessions and the immediate expulsion of a Deputy may be imposed by the President, in accordance with the terms laid down in this Regulation.
Art. 101.
1. The temporary suspension in the condition of a Member may be agreed by the Chamber's plenary session, for reasons of parliamentary discipline, in the following cases:
1. When the penalty provided for in Article 99 is imposed and enforced, the Deputy will persist in his/her attitude.
2. When the MP will carry weapons inside the parliamentary precinct.
3. When the Deputy, having been expelled from the Sessions Hall, will refuse to abandon him.
4. Where the Member of the Commission is in breach of Article 17 of this Regulation.
2. The proposals put forward by the Bureau of the House in the first three, the assumptions of the previous paragraph and by the Commission of the Members ' Statute in the 4., will be subject to the consideration and decision of the House in secret session. In the debate, the Parliamentary Groups will be able to speak through their spokesmen and the House will resolve without further formalities.
3. If the cause of the sanction could, in the opinion of the Bureau, be a crime, the Presidency will pass the blame to the competent judicial body.
SECTION II. OF THE CALLS TO THE QUESTION AND THE ORDER
Art. 102.
1. The speakers will be called to the question whenever they are out of it, already by digressions strange to the point in question, already by returning to what was discussed or voted.
2. The President shall withdraw the word to the speaker to whom he would make a third call to the question in the same speech.
Art. 103.
Deputies and speakers will be called to order:
1. When they provide words or vertieren offensive concepts to the decorum of the Chamber and its members, of the institutions of the State or of any other person or entity.
2. When in their speeches they will fail to establish themselves for the good march of the deliberations.
3. When with interrupts or otherwise alter the order of the sessions.
4. When, the word to a speaker is withdrawn, I intend to continue to use it.
Art. 104.
1. The Member of Parliament or speaker who has been called to order three times in the same session, warned the second time of the consequences of a third call, will be withdrawn if necessary, the word and the President, without debate, will be able to impose the sanction not to attend the remainder of the session.
2. If the sanctioned Member does not comply with the requirement to leave the sitting room, the President shall take the measures he considers relevant to make the expulsion effective. In this case, the Presidency, without prejudice to the provisions of Article 101, may also impose a ban on the attendance of the following session.
3. Where the case referred to in point 1 is produced. The President shall require the Deputy or Speaker to withdraw the proffered offenses and order that they not be present in the
SECTION III. OF THE ORDER WITHIN THE PARLIAMENTARY PRECINCT
Art. 105.
The President, in the exercise of the police powers referred to in Article 72, 3, of the Constitution will ensure that the order is maintained in the Chamber of Deputies ' Congress and in all its offices, to which It may take any action it considers appropriate, even making it available to persons to disturb it.
Art. 106.
Anyone who in the parliamentary chamber, in session or outside of it and whether or not he is a member, will promote serious disorder with his or her work or word, will be immediately expelled. In the case of a Member, the President shall, in addition, suspend the act in his capacity as a Member for up to one month, without prejudice to the fact that the House, acting on a proposal from the Bureau and in accordance with Article 101, may extend or Aggravate the penalty.
Art. 107.
Art 107. 1. The President shall ensure in public sessions, for the maintenance of the order of the stands.
2. Those who give evidence of approval or disapproval shall disturb the order or fail due to their due composure shall be immediately expelled from the Palace by the Presidency, ordering, where appropriate, that the House Security Services will lift timely proceedings in case the acts produced could be a crime or a fault.
TITLE V
LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURE
CHAPTER FIRST
From the legislative initiative
Art. 108.
The legislative initiative before the Congress of Deputies corresponds:
1. To the Government.
2. To the Senate in accordance with the Constitution and its own Rules of Procedure.
3. To the Assemblies of the Autonomous Communities, in accordance with the Constitution and their respective Statutes and Regulations.
4. To the citizens, in accordance with Article 87, 3, of the Constitution and with the Organic Law that develops it.
5. To the Congress of Deputies itself in the terms set out in this Regulation.
CHAPTER II
From the common legislative procedure
SECTION I. OF THE BILLS
I. Submission of amendments.
Art. 109.
The bills submitted by the Government will be accompanied by a statement of reasons and the background necessary to be able to speak about them. The Bureau of the Congress shall order its publication, the opening of the deadline for the submission of amendments and the submission to the corresponding Commission.
Art. 110.
1. A draft law will be published, the Members and the Parliamentary Groups will have a period of 15 days to submit amendments to it by written to the Commission's Bureau. The text of amendments must be signed by the spokesman of the group to which the Member or the person who replaces the member belongs. to the mere effects of knowledge. The omission of this procedure may be remedied before the start of the discussion in the Commission.
2. Amendments may be to the whole or the articulated
3. It will be amendments to all those who are about the opportunity, the principles or the spirit of the bill, and postulate the return of the bill to the government or those that propose an alternative full text to the bill. They can only be submitted by the Parliamentary Groups.
4. Amendments to the articles may be deleted, amended or added. In the last two cases, the amendment shall contain the proposed specific text.
5. To this end, and in general, to all the effects of the legislative procedure. Each additional, final, abrogatory or transitional provision shall have the consideration of an article, as well as the title of the law, the headings of the various parts in which it is systematized, the systematic management itself and the Exposition of Reasons.
Art. 111.
1. Amendments to a draft law involving increased appropriations or a decrease in budgetary revenue will require the compliance of the government for processing.
2. To this end, the Ponencia responsible for drafting the report will forward to the government, through the President of the Congress, those who in his opinion may be included in the provisions of the previous paragraph.
3. The Government shall provide a reasoned response within 15 days, which shall mean that the silence of the Government expresses conformity.
4. The Government may express its disagreement with the processing of amendments involving an increase in appropriations or a reduction in budgetary revenue at any time during the procedure, if it has not been consulted in the manner in which it is the previous paragraphs.
II. Debates of the entire plenary session.
Art. 112.
1. The whole debate of the draft laws in plenary will proceed when amendments to the whole are tabled within the time limit. The President of the Commission, in this case, shall forward to the President of the Congress the amendments to the whole which have been submitted for inclusion on the agenda of the plenary session in which they are to be discussed.
2. The whole debate will take place in accordance with this Regulation for those of this nature, although each of the amendments tabled may give rise to one shift in favour and one against.
3. After the deliberation, the president will put to the vote the amendments to the entire defended, beginning with those that propose the return of the government plan.
4. If the plenary agrees to the return of the bill, it will be rejected and the president of the Congress will communicate it to the government. Otherwise, it shall be forwarded to the Commission for further processing.
5. If the plenary approves an amendment to all those proposing an alternative text, it will be transferred to the corresponding Commission, published in the Official Journal of the Cortes General > and a new deadline will be opened for tabling amendments, which can only be made on the articles.
III. Deliberation in the Commission.
Art. 113.
1. At the end of the whole debate, if any, and in any event the time limit for tabling amendments, the Commission shall appoint one or more rapporteurs to draw up a report, in the light of the text and of the amendments presented to the report within 15 days.
2. The Bureau of the Commission, without prejudice to Article 43 (3) of this Regulation, may extend the time limit for the issue of the report, where the significance or complexity of the draft law so requires.
Art. 114.
1. After the report of the report, the debate will begin in the Commission, which will be made article by article. In each case, they may make use of the word to the article and to the members of the Commission.
2. The amendments that have been tabled in connection with the Motives Exhibition will be discussed at the end of the article, if the Commission will agree to incorporate such an Exposition of Motives as Preamble of the Law.
3. During the discussion of an article, the Bureau will be able to accept new amendments which will be submitted at this time in writing by a member of the Commission, provided that they tend to reach an agreement on the approximation of the amendments already formulated. and the text of the article. Amendments shall also be admissible for the purpose of correcting errors or technical, terminological or grammatical errors.
Art. 115.
1. In the direction of the debates of the Commission, the Presidency and the Bureau shall exercise the functions conferred on the Presidency and the Bureau of Congress by this Regulation.
2. The President of the Commission may, in agreement with the Bureau of the Commission, set the maximum time for the discussion for each article, which corresponds to each intervention, in the light of the number of requests for a word and the total for the conclusion of the opinion.
Art. 116.
The opinion of the Commission, signed by its President and one of the Secretaries, shall be forwarded to the President of the Congress for the purposes of subsequent processing.
IV. Deliberation in plenary session.
Art. 117.
The Parliamentary Groups, within forty-eight hours after the date of termination of the opinion, in writing to the President of the House, shall communicate the particular votes and amendments which, having been defended and voted on in committee and not incorporated in the opinion, they intend to defend in plenary.
Art. 118.
1. The debate in the plenary session may begin with the presentation of a member of the government's initiative and the opinion of a Member of the Commission, when the latter has agreed. These interventions may not exceed fifteen minutes.
2. The Chair of the Chamber, heard by the Bureau and the Board of Portspersons, may:
1. To order the debates and votes for articles, or, for matters, groups of articles or amendments, where the complexity of the text, the homogeneity or interconnectedness of the claims of the amendments or the greater clarity in the political confrontation of positions.
2. Set the maximum debate time for a project in advance, distributing it accordingly between the planned interventions and, once exhausted, the votes remaining pending.
3. During the debate, the Presidency will be able to accept amendments aimed at correcting errors or technical, terminological or grammatical errors. Only compromise amendments between those already tabled and the text of the opinion may be accepted when no Parliamentary Group objects to its admission and is involved in the withdrawal of the amendments in respect of which it takes place.
Art. 119.
The discussion of a project is completed, if, as a result of the approval of a particular vote or of an amendment or of the vote of the articles, the resulting text could be incongruous or obscure in any of its points, the Parliament's Bureau may, on its own initiative or at the request of the Commission, send the text approved by the plenary again to the Commission for the sole purpose of making it, within a period of one month, a harmonious wording which leaves the agreement of the Plenary. The opinion thus drafted shall be submitted to the final decision of the plenary session, which shall approve or reject it as a whole, in a single vote.
V. Deliberation on Senate deals
Art. 120.
Approved a bill by Congress, its President will forward it, with the background to it and with the documents produced in the proceedings before the House, to the President of the Senate.
Art. 121.
The bills passed by Congress and vetoed or amended by the Senate will be submitted to new consideration by the House plenary.
Art. 122.
1. In case the Senate had opposed its veto of a bill, the debate would be adjusted to what was set for the entire. After the debate, the text initially approved by the Congress will be put to the vote and, if ratified by the favorable vote of the absolute majority of the members of the House, the veto will be lifted.
2. If it does not obtain the majority, it shall be put back to the vote, after two months from the veto. If, in this vote, the bill is simple majority of the votes cast, the veto will be lifted; otherwise, the project will be rejected.
Art. 123.
The amendments proposed by the Senate will be the subject of debate and vote and will be incorporated into the text of the Congress that will obtain the simple majority of the votes cast.
SECTION II. OF THE PROPOSALS OF LAW
Art. 124.
The proposals for the law will be accompanied by an Exposition of Motives and the necessary antecedents to be able to decide on them.
Art. 125.
The proposals of law that, according to the Constitution, have been taken into consideration by the Senate, will be dealt with by the Congress as such proposals of law, excluded from the process of taking into consideration.
Art. 126.
1. The proposals of the Congress may be adopted at the initiative of: 1. A member with the signature of fourteen other members of the House, 2. A Parliamentary Group with the sole signature of its spokesperson.
2. The Congress Bureau will order the publication of the bill and its referral to the government to express its opinion regarding the taking into consideration, as well as its conformity or not to the processing if it involves increase in appropriations or decrease in budgetary revenue.
3. After thirty days without the Government expressly denying its conformity to the procedure, the proposed law will be in a position to be included on the agenda of the plenary session for consideration.
4. Before the start of the debate, the government's criterion will be read, if any. The debate will be in accordance with the provisions of the entire debate.
5. The President will then ask whether or not the House takes into consideration the proposed law. If so, the Bureau of the House shall agree to send it to the competent committee and to open the appropriate time limit for tabling amendments, without, except in the case of Article 125, amendments to the whole of the refund. The proposal will follow the procedure foreseen for the bills, corresponding to one of the proposers or a member of the group author of the initiative the presentation of the same to the plenary.
Art. 127.
The proposals for the law of the Autonomous Communities and those of popular initiative will be examined by the Congressional Bureau for the purpose of verifying compliance with the legally established requirements. If they are satisfied, their processing will be in accordance with the provisions of the previous article, with the sole specialty that in the initiative of an Assembly of the Autonomous Community the defense of the proposal in the process of taking into consideration shall be the responsibility of the Delegation.
SECTION III. OF THE WITHDRAWAL OF PROJECTS AND PROPOSALS OF LAW
Art. 128.
The government may withdraw a bill at any time in its proceedings before the House, provided that no final agreement has been reached.
Art. 129.
The initiative to withdraw a bill from its proposer will have full effect on its own, if it occurs before the agreement is taken into consideration. Adopted this, the withdrawal will only be effective if it is accepted by the House.
CHAPTER III
Of the specialties in the legislative procedure
SECTION I. OF ORGANIC BILLS AND PROPOSALS
Art. 130.
1. The bills and proposals of law to which the Bureau of Congress, or the Board of Portsates, will grant such a qualification will be dealt with as draft of the Organic Law. in accordance with the provisions of Article 81 (1) of the Constitution and in the light of the reasoned opinion expressed by the Government, the proposer or the relevant Ponencia in the form of a report.
2. Once the report has been completed, and whenever the question has not been raised before, the Commission may ask the Bureau of the House to consider whether or not the draft is a matter of Organic Law. The Bureau of the Congress, with the criterion, if appropriate, of the Ponencia that drafted the report, will agree to the appropriate qualification. If the classification of the law as organic occurs, the debate in the Commission has already begun the procedure will be rolled back to the initial moment of this debate.
3. Amendments that contain matters reserved for Organic Law that have been submitted to an ordinary bill may only be admitted to the agreement of the Bureau of the Congress, for consultation of the appropriate Ponencia, in its case, as provided for in the previous section.
Art. 131.
1. The projects and proposals for Organic Law shall be dealt with by the common legislative procedure, with the specialties set out in this Section.
2. Its approval will require the vote of the absolute majority of the House members in a final vote on the text as a whole. The vote will be announced in advance by the Presidency of the House and, if the majority is obtained, the bill will be sent to the Senate. If, on the other hand, the project is not followed, the project shall be returned to the Commission, which shall issue a new opinion within one month.
3. The debate on the new opinion will be in line with the rules governing all. If the vote is followed by a favorable vote of the absolute majority of the members of the House, it will be sent to the Senate, being rejected otherwise.
Art. 132.
In the event that the Senate would oppose its veto or introduce amendments to a draft or proposed Organic Law, it will proceed in accordance with the common legislative procedure with the following two caveats:
1. Ratification of the initial text and subsequent lifting of the veto will in any case require the vote of the absolute majority of the members of the House.
2. The text resulting from the incorporation of amendments introduced by the Senate and accepted by the Congress will be submitted to a joint vote. If that vote is taken, the absolute majority of the members of the House will be definitively approved in their terms. Otherwise, the initial text of the Congress v rejected all the amendments proposed by the Senate will be ratified.
SECTION II. FROM THE DRAFT BUDGETS BILL
Art. 133.
1. The common legislative procedure shall be applied in the study and approval of the General Budget of the State, except as provided for in this Section.
2. The draft General Budget Law of the State will preferably be in the process of dealing with the other works of the House.
3. The amendments to the draft General Budget Law of the State which involve an increase in appropriations in some way can only be accepted if, in addition to the general requirements, they propose a reduction of the same amount in the Same Section.
4. Amendments to the draft budget bill that will be revenue minoring will require the compliance of the government for processing.
Art. 134.
1. The whole debate of the draft budget bill. State generals will take place in the House plenary. In this debate, the overall amounts of the budget states will be fixed. Once this debate has been completed, the draft will be immediately forwarded to the Committee on Budgets.
2. The Budget debate will refer to the articulated and the state of authorization of expenditure. This is without prejudice to the study of other documents to accompany the study.
3. The President of the Commission and the President of the House, in agreement with their respective Messes, may order the debates and votes in the manner that best fits the structure of the Budget.
4. The final debate of the General Budget of the State in the Chamber's plenary will be developed by differentiating the set of the law and each of its Sections.
Art. 135.
The provisions of this Section shall apply to the processing and approval of the Public Entes for which the law establishes the need for approval by the Courts.
SECTION III. OF THE AUTONOMY STATUTES
I. Of the ordinary procedure.
Art. 136.
1. Received in the Congress a draft Statute drawn up by the procedure provided for in the articles, 143, 144, 146 and the transitional provision of the Constitution, the Bureau of the House will proceed to the examination of the text and the documentation submitted to the Object to check compliance with the constitutionally required requirements.
2. If the Bureau considers such requirements fulfilled, the draft Statute shall be dealt with as a draft Organic Law.
3. If the Bureau warned that a constitutionally required procedure has been breached or that the project suffers from a defect, it will be communicated to the Assembly that it has been prepared and the processing will be suspended until the one is satisfied or subsane this.
II. The procedure provided for in Article 151 of the Constitution.
Art. 137.
1. Where the draft Statute has been drawn up in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 151 (2) of the Constitution, and once it has been accepted by the Bureau in accordance with the provisions of the previous Article, a period of time shall be opened. 15 days for the submission of the grounds of disagreement to which they shall be supported by at least one Parliamentary Group.
2. At the same time, the President of the Congress shall notify that resolution to the proposing Assembly by inviting it to designate, if not previously done and within the meaning of Article 151, 2, 2, of the Constitution, a Delegation which shall not exceed the number of members of the Constitutional Commission, elected among the members of the Assembly and with appropriate representation of the political formations present therein.
Art. 138.
1. The period of two months referred to in Article 151, 2, 2. the Constitution shall begin to be counted from the day on which the time limit for the submission of the grounds of disagreement is completed.
2. The computation of that period shall respect or be required in the Sixth Transitional Disposition of the Constitution.
Art. 139.
1. On the same day as the calculation of the two-month period should be initiated, in accordance with the previous article, the Constitutional Commission, convened for that purpose, shall appoint a Ponence with the appropriate representation of all the Parliamentary Groups. which make up the Chamber.
2. At the same time, the Delegation of the Proponent Assembly shall appoint from among its members a Ponence in number not exceeding that of the rapporteurs of the Constitutional Commission.
Art. 140.
1. Under the chairmanship of the President of the Constitutional Commission, both of them will proceed jointly to the study of the reasons for disagreement formulated to the draft Statute.
2. The Joint Ponance will try to reach an agreement within one month, from its designation by proposing the drafting of a definitive text. This text will be submitted to the separate vote on each of the papers. An agreement shall be deemed to exist where the majority of each of them expressed in a weighted vote according to the number of MPs in each Parliamentary Group or political formation, respectively, is in favour of the proposed text.
3. The Joint Committee may request the presence of representatives of the Government for the purpose of providing information which may contribute to a better study of the draft Statute. To this end, it may require the presence of experts who have attended the proposing assembly.
4. Minutes shall be lifted from the meetings of the Joint Committee.
Art. 141.
1. The Joint Committee shall send its report to the Constitutional Committee and to the Delegation of the proposing assembly, with the expression of the opinion of the European Parliament, to the Committee of the European Parliament, the Committee of the European Parliament and the Committee of the European Parliament. texts on which the agreement has been reached, of those in which there has been a disagreement and of the individual votes, if any.
2. The report of the Joint Committee, with the agreed texts, the discordant ones, if any, and the special votes if any, shall be published and immediately submitted to the Constitutional Commission and the Delegation of the Proponent Assembly, in joint meeting, under the chairmanship of the President of the Commission.
Art. 142.
1. The Joint Committee referred to in the previous Article shall be given a 15-minute duty of defence, on each of the agreed texts the discordant texts, if any, and the individual votes, if any. The Commission Presidency may also take any corrective action which the Commission Presidency considers appropriate.
2. All assistance shall be completed and shall be put to the vote, separately, by the Commission and the Delegation of the Assembly, each of the texts and the existence or non-existence of an agreement shall be verified.
3. In the case of maintaining disagreement, each representation may propose that the question be transferred back to the Joint Committee so that, within the period prescribed for it, it tries to reach the agreement in accordance with the procedure laid down in the Article 140.
Art. 143.
1. After the discussion and vote on the article have been completed, a joint vote shall be taken, in which the Commission and the Delegation shall be declared separately. If the outcome of such a vote is evidence of the agreement of both bodies, the previous disagreements shall be considered, if any, and the resulting text shall be submitted to the Chair of the Chamber for further processing.
2. If there is no agreement, this shall be declared and the result shall be notified to the Presidency of the House for the purposes of paragraph 5. of Article 151, 2, of the Constitution.
Art. 144.
Received the government's communication giving an account of the approval of a draft Statute in a referendum, will be submitted to a vote of ratification by the Congress plenary, after a debate that will be in accordance with the rules laid down for the All.
III. Of the reform of the Statutes.
Art. 145.
The reform of a Statute of Autonomy, dealt with in accordance with the same rules, will require approval through Organic Law.
SECTION IV. OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW AND REFORM
Art. 146.
1. The constitutional reform proposals and proposals referred to in Articles 166 and 167 of the Constitution shall be dealt with in accordance with the rules laid down in this Regulation for the draft and proposed laws, although these shall be signed by two parliamentary groups or by a fifth of the Members.
2. The text adopted by the plenary session must be put to a final vote in which it will be adopted. A favorable vote of the three-fifths of the members of the House will be required.
3. If there is no agreement between the Congress of Deputies and the Senate, it will be tried to obtain it through a Joint Joint Committee. If an agreement is reached, the resulting text shall be put to the vote in which the majority referred to in the preceding paragraph is to be obtained.
4. If the approval is not achieved through the procedure of the previous paragraph, and provided that the text has obtained the favorable vote of the absolute majority of the Senate, the Congress, by a two-thirds majority, may approve the reform.
Art. 147.
1. The bills and proposals that will be proposed in the total revision of the Constitution or a partial one affecting the Preliminary Title, Chapter II, Section I of Title I, or Title II of the Constitution, shall be submitted to a debate before the Plenary Session, which shall be in accordance with the rules laid down for all.
2. After the debate, the vote will be taken. If they vote in favor of the principle of revision, the two-thirds of the members of the House, the President of the Congress, will communicate it to the Senate.
3. If, in this Chamber, the majority of the two-thirds of the Senators were also received, the President of the Congress will inform the Government that it will submit to the sanction of the King the Royal Decree of dissolution of the General Courts.
4. The new Cortes will be constituted, the decision taken by the dissolved ones will be submitted to ratification. If the Congress agreement is favorable, the Senate President will be notified.
5. Once the agreement has been reached by both chambers, the Congress, by the common legislative procedure, will process the new constitutional text, which to be approved will require a favorable vote of two-thirds of the members of the Congress. If such approval is obtained, it will be forwarded to the Senate.
6. Approved the constitutional reform by the General Courts, the President of the Congress of Deputies will communicate it to the Government, for the purposes of article 168, 3, of the Constitution.
SECTION V. OF FULL LEGISLATIVE COMPETENCE OF COMMITTEES
Art. 148.
1. The agreement of the plenary session for which the full legislative competence is delegated to the Commissions, will be presumed for all the bills and proposals of law that are constitutionally delegated, excluding from the delegation the debate and vote of all or takes into account, and without prejudice to the provisions of the following Article.
2. The procedure applicable to the processing of these bills and proposals shall be the common legislative procedure, excluding the procedure for deliberation and final vote in the plenary session.
Art. 149.
1. The plenary session of the House may request the final deliberation and vote of the bills and proposals referred to in the previous article, by virtue of the agreement adopted at the plenary session in which the whole debate takes place, pursuant to Article 112 of this Regulation, or to the taking into consideration of proposals of law. In other cases and before the debate is initiated in the Commission, the plenary session may endorse the final approval, on a proposal from the Bureau, to hear the Board of Portlets. The proposal for approval shall be put to the vote without prior discussion.
2. The Commissions shall lack the competence to know with the legislative fullness of the bills or proposals of law that have been vetoed and amended by the Senate, provided that the veto or the amendments have been approved by the Senate. Camera.
SECTION VI. OF THE PROCESSING OF A BILL IN A SINGLE READING
Art. 150.
1. When the nature of the bill or proposal taken into consideration is advised or its simplicity of formulation allows, the plenary of the Chamber, at the proposal of the Bureau, or the Board of Portalsates, may agree that it is processed directly and in single read.
2. Such an agreement shall be subject to a debate subject to the rules laid down for the whole of the text to a single vote.
3. If the outcome of the vote is favourable, the text will be adopted and forwarded to the Senate. Otherwise, it will be rejected.
TITLE VI
OF CONTROL ON THE GOVERNMENT ' S PROVISIONS WITH FORCE OF LAW
Art. 151.
1. The debate and vote on the validation or repeal of a Royal Decree-Law shall be held in the plenary session of the Chamber or of the Permanent Diputación, before the end of the thirty days following its promulgation, in accordance with the provisions of Article 86. 2, of the Constitution. In any case, the insertion in the order of the day of a Decree-law, for its debate and vote, may be done as soon as it has been the object of publication in the "Official State Gazette".
2. A member of the Government shall explain to the House the reasons for its promulgation and the subsequent debate shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of the whole.
3. After the debate, the vote shall be taken, in which the affirmative votes shall be deemed to be in favour of the validation and the negatives favourable to the repeal.
4. A Royal Decree-law is validated, the President will ask if any Parliamentary Group wants it to be dealt with as a bill. If yes, the application will be submitted to the House. If it is delivered in favour, it shall be dealt with as a matter of law by the urgency procedure, without the amendments of any refoulement being admissible.
5. The Permanent Diputación may in its case proceed as bills of law through the Emergency Procedure the Decree-laws that the Government dictates during the periods between legislatures.
6. The agreement on the validation or repeal of a Royal Decree-law will be published in the Official Gazette.
Art. 152.
The Government, as soon as it has made use of the delegation provided for in Article 82 of the Constitution, will direct to the Congress the corresponding communication that will contain the text articulated or recast that is the object of the will be published in the Official Gazette of the General Cortes.
Art. 153.
1. When, in accordance with the provisions of Article 82, 8 of the Constitution, the laws of delegation establish that the additional control of the delegated legislation is carried out by the Congress of Deputies, it shall proceed according to the set out in this Article.
2. If within the month following the publication of the text or recast, no Member or Parliamentary Group shall object, it shall be understood that the Government has made the right use of the legislative delegation.
3. If, within the aforementioned period, any objections are made to the use of the delegation in writing addressed to the Congress Bureau, the latter shall forward it to the corresponding House Committee, which shall deliver an opinion on the matter within the time limit. point.
4. The opinion will be discussed in the Chamber's plenary session in accordance with the general rules of the legislative procedure.
5. The legal effects of the control shall be those provided for in the law of delegation.
TITLE VII
OF GRANTING AUTHORIZATIONS AND OTHER ACTS OF CONGRESS WITH DIRECT LEGAL EFFECTIVENESS
CHAPTER FIRST
Of international treaties
Art. 154.
The conclusion of the Treaty, for which the exercise of powers deriving from the Constitution is attributed to an international organization or institution, will require the prior approval by the Courts of an Organic Law of authorisation, which shall be processed in accordance with the provisions of this Regulation for the laws of this nature.
Art. 155.
1. The provision of the State's consent to be bound by treaties or conventions shall require the prior authorization of the General Courts in the cases provided for in Article 94 (1) of the Constitution.
2. The Government shall request from the General Courts the granting of such authorization by sending to the Congress of Deputies the corresponding agreement of the Council of Ministers together with the text of the treaty or convention, as well as the justify the request and the reservations and declarations which the Government intends to make, if appropriate. The Congress will have to decide both on the granting of the authorization and on the formulation of reservations and declarations proposed by the Government.
3. The request referred to in the previous paragraph shall be submitted by the Government to the Congress within 90 days of the agreement of the Council of Ministers, which, in justified cases, may be extended up to a hundred and eighty days. In the latter case, and once the initial ninety days have passed, the government will be obliged to send to Congress a communication motivating the delay.
4. The agreement of the Congress must be adopted within sixty days.
Art. 156.
1. The processing in the Congress of the granting of authorization shall be in accordance with the common legislative procedure, with the particularities contained in this Chapter.
2. The proposals put forward by the Members and by the Parliamentary Groups will have the consideration of amendments to the whole in the following cases:
1. When they intend to refuse or postpone the requested authorisation.
2. When they propose reservations or declarations and are not provided for by the treaty or convention.
3. The proposals put forward by the Members and the Parliamentary Groups will have the consideration of amendments to the articles in the following cases:
1. Where they propose the deletion, addition or modification of the reservations or declarations which the Government intends to make.
2. When making reservations or declarations provided for by the treaty or convention.
Art. 157.
1. If, during the processing of a treaty or agreement in the Congress of Deputies, doubts are raised about the constitutionality of any of its provisions, the Congress plenary, on the initiative of two Parliamentary Groups or one fifth of the Members may agree to address to the Constitutional Court the requirement laid down in Article 95, 2 of the Constitution.
2. The processing of the treaty or agreement shall be interrupted and may only be resumed if the judgment of the Court is in favour of the constitutionality of the stipulations contained in that judgment.
3. If the Tribunal understood that the treaty or convention contains provisions contrary to the Constitution, it can only be dealt with if the constitutional review is carried out in advance.
Art. 158.
Discrepancies between the Congress of Deputies and the Senate on the granting of authorization to conclude treaties or agreements provided for in Article 94, 1 of the Constitution, will be resolved through a Commission Joint constituted under the terms of Article 74 (2) of the Constitution, which will present a text to be put to the vote of both Chambers. If it is not approved in the established form, it will decide the Congress by an absolute majority.
Art. 159.
Of the Government's communications, in compliance with the provisions of Article 94, 2, of the Constitution and of the texts of the corresponding treaties or conventions, it shall immediately be given, for its knowledge, to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House.
Art. 160.
In the case of a complaint of a treaty or agreement, the same procedure shall be followed as that provided for the provision of the consent to be bound by that treaty or agreement.
CHAPTER II
Consultative Referendum
Art. 161.
1. It will require the prior authorization of the Congress of Deputies the proposal of a decree that will raise the president of the government to the King to call for an advisory referendum on some political question of special importance.
2. The message or communication that the President of the Government will address to the Congress will be debated in the Chamber's plenary session. The debate will be in accordance with the rules laid down for the whole.
3. The decision of the Congress will be communicated by the President of the House to the Government.
CHAPTER III
From alarm, exception, and site states
Art. 162.
1. When the Government declares the state of alarm, it shall immediately forward to the President of the Congress a communication accompanying the Decree agreed upon in the Council of Ministers. The communication shall be forwarded to the competent Commission, which may collect the information and documentation it deems appropriate.
2. If the Government intends to extend the 15-day period referred to in Article 116 (2) of the Constitution, it shall request the authorization of the Congress of Deputies before the expiration of that period.
3. The Parliamentary Groups may submit proposals on the scope and conditions in force during the extension, up to two hours before the beginning of the session in which the granting of the requested authorisation is to be discussed.
4. The debate will take place in the plenary session and will be initiated with the presentation by a member of the Government of the reasons for the request for an extension of the state of alarm and will be in accordance with the rules for the entire state.
5. After the debate, the request and the proposals submitted will be put to the vote. From the decision of the House will be transferred to the Government.
Art. 163.
1. When the Government intends to declare a state of emergency or to extend the declared state of emergency, it will need the prior authorization of the Congress of Deputies, to which effect it will have to send the corresponding communication that will be processed according to the provided in the previous article
2. In any event, the authorization of the state of emergency shall expressly determine the effects of the derogation, the territorial scope to be extended and its duration, which may not exceed 30 days, which may be extended for a further period equal to the same requirements.
Art. 164.
1. When the Government proposes the declaration of the state of siege, the debate in the Congress plenary will be in accordance with the rules set out in Article 162.
2. The state of the place will be declared within the territorial scope and with the duration and conditions that will provide for the proposal that in the plenum obtain the absolute majority of the members of the Congress.
3. The President of the Congress will communicate it to the Government and order that the resolution of the House be published in the "Official Gazette of the State".
Art. 165.
1. In the cases provided for in the three preceding articles, the case shall be submitted immediately to the Plenary Session of the Congress, convened for the purpose if it is not assembled, even in the period between sessions.
2. If any of the situations that give rise to any of these states, the powers that the present Chapter attributes to the Congress plenary, will be assumed by the Congress of the Deputies or the expiration of their mandate, Permanent Members.
CHAPTER IV
Of the acts of the Congress in relation to the Autonomous Communities
Art. 166.
1. Having received in the Congress the communication of an agreement between Autonomous Communities for the management and delivery of public services of the same, the Bureau will forward it to the Constitutional Commission of the House for the previewed effects in the corresponding Statutes of Autonomy.
2. Having received a communication from the Senate granting or refusing authorization to conclude a cooperation agreement between the Autonomous Communities, in the cases not covered by the preceding paragraph, the Bureau shall decide on its referral to the Commission. Constitutional to issue the relevant opinion, which will be discussed in plenary in accordance with the procedure laid down in this Regulation for all debates.
3. If the agreement is coincident with that of the Senate, the President of the Congress shall communicate it to the Presidents of the Communities concerned. If it is contrary, it will make the President of the Senate know for the purposes of appointing the Joint Committee provided for in Article 74, 2 of the Constitution, which will present a text that will be put to the vote of both houses. If it is not approved in the established form, it will decide the Congress by an absolute majority.
Art. 167.
The mode of control provided for in a state law that is dictated under the provisions of Article 150, 1 of the Constitution, shall be carried out, as far as the Congress is concerned, in accordance with the provisions of Article 153 of the Constitution. This Regulation.
Art. 169.
1. The assessment of the need for the State to make laws laying down the principles necessary for the harmonization of the rules of the Autonomous Communities, even in the case of matters attributed to the jurisdiction of the Autonomous Communities, The general interest must be agreed by the absolute majority of the members of the Congress in a debate subject to the rules of the whole. The debate may be introduced on a proposal from the Government, two Parlarnentary Groups or one fifth of the Members.
2. The House agreement will be communicated by its President to the Senate, for the purposes of compliance with the provisions of Article 150, 3, of the Constitution.
3. In the subsequent processing of projects or proposals of the Law on Harmonisation, amendments which contradict the previous pronouncement of the House, adopted in accordance with paragraph 1, shall not be admissible.
CHAPTER V
From prosecution to members of the government for treason or state security crimes
Art. 169.
1. Formulated in writing and signed by a number of Members not less than a quarter of the members of the Congress, the initiative referred to in Article 102, 2 of the Constitution, the President shall convene a secret session of the Plenary Session of the Chamber for your debate and vote.
2. The debate will be in accordance with the rules laid down for all. The person affected by the prosecution initiative will be able to use the word at any time in the debate. The vote shall be taken in accordance with the procedure laid down in the second paragraph of Article 87 (1) of this Regulation and shall be announced in advance by the Presidency at the time of the vote.
3. If the charge bill is approved by the absolute majority of the members of the House, the President of the Congress shall communicate it to the Supreme Court, within the meaning of Article 102, 1 of the Constitution. Otherwise the initiative shall be deemed to be rejected.
TITLE VIII
GRANTING AND WITHDRAWING TRUST
CHAPTER FIRST
From Research
Art. 170.
In compliance with the provisions laid down in Article 99 of the Constitution, and once the proposal for a candidate for the presidency of the government has been received in the Congress, the President of the House will convene the plenary session.
Art. 171.
1. The session will begin with the reading of the proposal by one of the Secretaries.
2. Next, the proposed candidate will expose, without limitation of time the political program of the government that intends to form v will ask for the confidence of the House.
3. A representative of each Parliamentary Group, who requests it for thirty minutes, will be brought in by the Presidency after the time of interruption.
4. The proposed candidate will be able to use the word as many times as I request. When I reply individually to one of the interveners, he shall be entitled to reply within ten minutes. If the candidate will respond in a comprehensive manner to the representatives of the Parliamentary Groups, they shall be entitled to a ten-minute reply.
5. The vote will take effect at the time set by the Presidency. If the proposed candidate obtains the vote of the absolute majority of the members of the Congress, the trust will be understood. If the majority is not obtained, a new vote shall be taken forty-eight hours after the preceding vote, and the confidence shall be given if it obtains a simple majority. Before proceeding to this vote, the candidate may intervene for a maximum of ten minutes and the Parliamentary Groups for five minutes each to fix their position.
6. Granted the trust to the candidate, in accordance with the previous paragraph, the President of the Congress shall communicate it to the King, for the purposes of his appointment as President of the Government.
Art. 172.
1. If, in the votes referred to in the previous Article, the House has not given its confidence, successive proposals shall be dealt with by the same procedure.
2. If two months elapse from the first vote of investiture and no candidate has obtained the confidence of the Congress, the President of the Chamber shall submit to the signature of the King the Decree of dissolution of the General Courts and call for elections and communicate it to the President of the Senate.
CHAPTER II
From the question of trust
Art. 173.
The President of the Government, after deliberation in the Council of Ministers, can raise the question of confidence about his program or a general policy statement before the Congress of Deputies.
Art. 174.
1. The question of trust will be presented in written form to the Congressional Bureau, accompanied by the corresponding certification of the Council of Ministers.
2. The Chair shall be admitted to the proceedings by the Bureau, and the Chair shall be informed by the Chair of the Chair and shall convene the Plenary Session.
3. The debate shall be held subject to the same rules as for the investiture, corresponding to the President of the Government and, where appropriate, to the members of the Government, the interventions established there for the candidate.
4. After the debate, the proposal for confidence will be put to the vote at the time it has been announced by the Presidency. The question of trust cannot be voted on until 24 hours after its submission.
5. Trust shall be understood when obtaining the vote of the simple majority of the Members.
6. Whatever the outcome of the vote, the President of Congress will communicate it to the King and the President of the Government.
CHAPTER III
From the motion of censure
Art. 175.
1. The Congress of Deputies can demand the political responsibility of the Government through the adoption of a motion of censure.
2. The motion must be proposed, at least, by the tenth part of the Chamber of Deputies in a reasoned written form to the Congressional Bureau and must include a candidate for the Presidency of the Government who has accepted the candidacy.
Art. 176.
1. The Bureau of Congress, after verifying that the motion of censure meets the requirements mentioned in the previous article, will admit it to be processed, giving account of its presentation to the President of the Government and to the spokespersons of the Parliamentary Groups
2. Within two days of the submission of the motion of censure, alternative motions may be submitted, which shall meet the same requirements as referred to in paragraph 2 of the previous Article and shall be subject to the same procedures as Admission referred to in the preceding paragraph.
Art. 177.
1. The debate will be initiated by the defence of the motion of censure which, without limitation of time, will be carried out by one of the Members who are signatories to it. The candidate proposed in the motion for the Presidency of the Government, for the purpose of exposing the political programme of the Government that it intends to form, will be able to intervene below and without limitation of time.
2. Following the interruption of the Presidency, a representative of each of the Parliamentary Groups in the Chamber may be involved in the request, for a period of 30 minutes. All interveners are entitled to a ten-minute replication or rectification shift.
3. If more than one motion of censure has been tabled, the President of the House will hear the Board of Portsates, and you will be able to agree on the joint debate of all those included on the agenda, but you will have to know. put to a separate vote, following the order of your presentation.
4. The motion or motions of censure shall be put to the vote at the time that has been previously announced by ' the Presidency and which may not be earlier than five days from .to the presentation of the first one in the General Register.
5. The approval of a motion of censure will, in any case, require the vote of the absolute majority of the members of the Congress of Deputies.
6. If a motion of censure is adopted, the remaining vote shall not be put to the vote.
Art. 178.
When the Congress of Deputies approves a motion of censure, its President will immediately bring him to the attention of the King and the President of the Government. The candidate for the Presidency of the Government included in that Presidency shall be deemed to be vested with the confidence of the House, for the purposes set out in Article 99 of the Constitution.
Art. 179.
None of the signatories of a rejected motion of censure may sign another motion during the same session. For these purposes, the one-off session shall be charged to the following session.
TITLE IX
QUESTIONS AND QUESTIONS
CHAPTER FIRST
From Interpels
Art. 180.
Deputies and Parliamentary Groups may formulate questions to the Government and to each of its members.
Art. 181.
1. The interpellations shall be submitted in writing to the Congress Bureau and shall deal with the motives or purposes of the conduct of the Executive in matters of general policy, either of the Government or of any ministerial department.
2. The Bureau shall describe the document and, in the event that its contents are not the same as an interpellation, as set out in the preceding paragraph, shall communicate it to its author for conversion in question with oral or written reply.
Art. 182.
1. Fifteen days after the publication of the interpellation, it will be in the condition of being placed on the agenda of the plenary session.
2. The interpellations will be included on the agenda, giving priority to those of the Members of the Parliamentary Groups or to those of the Parliamentary Groups themselves who, in the appropriate session, would not have consumed the resulting quota. assign an interpellation for every ten Members or fraction belonging to it. Without prejudice to the above criterion, the priority shall be applied in the presentation. No more than one interpellation of the same Parliamentary Group may be included on any agenda.
3. At the end of a session, pending questions will be dealt with in written answers, to be answered before the start of the next period, unless the Member or the Parliamentary Group has expressed its opinion. willingness to maintain interpellation for that period.
Art. 183.
1. The proceedings will be brought before the plenary session, giving rise to a shift of exposure by the author of the interpellation, to the government's response and to two shifts of reply. The first interventions may not exceed ten minutes, nor those of five minutes.
2. After the intervention of the interpelant and interpellated, a representative of each Parliamentary Group may use the word, except for the one from whom the interpellation applies, for a term of five minutes to fix its position.
Art. 184.
1. Any interpellation may give rise to a motion in which Id Chamber manifests its position.
2. The Parliamentary Group, or the one to which the signatory of the interpellation belongs, must present the motion on the day following that of the substance of the proceedings before the Plenary. The motion, once accepted by the Bureau, shall be included in the order of the day of the next plenary session. Amendments may be tabled up to six hours before the start of the amendment. The Bureau shall accept the motion if it is consistent with the interpellation.
3. The debate and the vote will be conducted in accordance with the provisions of the non-law proposals.
CHAPTER II
Of The Questions
Art. 185.
Members will be able to ask questions of the Government and each of its members.
Art. 186.
1 Questions will be submitted in writing to the Congressional Bureau.
2. The question of exclusive personal interest to whom the formula or any other person singed, or the question of a strictly legal nature, shall not be accepted.
3. The Bureau shall describe the document and accept the question if it complies with the provisions of this Chapter.
Art. 187.
In the absence of an indication it is understood that the person who formulates the question requests a written reply and, if he requests oral reply and does not specify it, it is understood that the answer is to take place in the relevant Commission.
Art. 188.
1. When the oral answer to the plenary is sought, the letter may not contain more than the brief and strict formulation of a single question, questioning a fact, a situation or an information, whether the government has taken or will take action. some providence in relation to a matter, or if the government is going to submit to Congress any document or to inform it about some extreme. The documents shall be submitted in advance to the bureau and shall never be more than one week or less than forty-eight hours.
2. The questions will be placed on the agenda, giving priority to those submitted by Members who have not yet asked questions in plenary at the same session. Without prejudice to this criterion, the President, in agreement with the Board of Portaldres, will point out the number of questions to be included in the agenda for each plenary session and the criterion of distribution between the deputies for each group. MP.
3. In the debate, after the brief formulation of the question by the deputy, the government will answer. He will then be able to intervene to reply or to reask and, following the government's new intervention, the debate will end. The times will be distributed by the President and the interveners, without in any case the processing of the question can exceed five minutes. After the time of an intervention, the President will automatically give the word to whom he must speak next or move on to the next question.
4. The Government may request, in a reasoned manner, at any time v for once in respect of each question that is postponed to the agenda of the next plenary session. Except in this case, the questions submitted and not included in the agenda and those included and not dealt with, shall be repeated, if they are to be maintained for the following plenary session.
Art. 189.
1. The questions for which the oral reply is sought in the Commission shall be in a position to be placed on the agenda after seven days after its publication.
2. They shall be processed in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 3 of the previous Article, with the particularity that the first interventions shall be ten minutes and those of five. The Secretaries of State and the Undersecretaries may be able to appear.
3. After a session period, pending questions will be processed as questions with written response to answering before the next session is initiated.
Art. 190.
1. The answer in writing to the questions must be answered within twenty days of its publication, which may be extended to a reasoned request from the Government and by agreement of the Bureau of the Congress, for a further period of up to twenty years. days more.
2. If the Government does not send the reply within that period, the President of the House shall, at the request of the author of the question, order that it be placed on the agenda of the next sitting of the competent Commission, where he shall receive the treatment of the oral questions, realizing such a decision to the government.
CHAPTER III
Common rules
Art. 191.
The weeks in which the full session of the plenary session will be held, as a rule, will be devoted to two hours as a minimum time, to questions and questions.
Art. 192.
1. The President of the House is empowered to accumulate and order that the interpellings or questions included on an agenda and related to the same topic or related topics should be discussed simultaneously.
2. The Bureau, heard by the Board of Portspersons, may declare any questions or questions which the text incurs in the cases referred to in Article 103 (1) of this Regulation not admissible.
TITLE X
OF NON-LAW PROPOSITIONS
Art. 193.
Parliamentary Groups will be able to present non-law proposals through which they will formulate motions for resolutions to the House.
Art. 194.
1. Non-law proposals shall be submitted in writing to the Bureau of the Congress, which shall decide on their admissibility, order, where appropriate, their publication and shall agree to its proceedings before the Plenary or the Commission competent in accordance with the wishes of the expressed by the proposer Group and the importance of the subject matter of the proposal.
2. The proposed non-law proposal may be amended by the Parliamentary Groups up to six hours before the start of the session to be discussed.
3. For the inclusion of non-law proposals on the agenda of the plenary session, the provisions of Article 182 (2) of this Regulation shall be as regards the interpellations.
Art. 195.
1. The proposal for a non-law will be the subject of a debate in which a representative of each of the parliamentary groups who tabled amendments, and then those who do not, will be able to speak after the Parliamentary Group. have done. Once these interventions have been completed, the proposal, with the amendments accepted by the proposer of the proposal, will be put to the vote.
2. The President of the Commission or the House may, for the purposes of discussion, accumulate non-law proposals relating to the same subject or related issues.
TITLE XI
GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATIONS, PROGRAMS, OR PROGRAMS AND OTHER REPORTS
CHAPTER FIRST
From Government Communications
Art. 196.
1. When the Government sends a communication to the Congress for its debate, which may be before the plenary session or in the Commission, it will start with the intervention of a member of the government, after which he will be able to make use of the word, for a maximum of fifteen years. minutes, a representative of each Parliamentary Group.
2. The members of the Government may respond to the questions raised in isolation, jointly or grouped by reason of the matter. All interveners may replicate for a maximum period of ten minutes each.
Art. 197.
1. After the debate, a deadline of 30 minutes will be opened, during which the Parliamentary Groups will be able to submit to the Bureau motions for resolutions. The Bureau shall accept proposals which are consistent with the subject matter of the debate.
2. The accepted proposals may be defended for a maximum of five minutes. The President may grant a turn against for the same time after the defence of each of them.
3. The motions for resolutions shall be voted in accordance with the order of presentation, except those that mean the overall rejection of the content of the Government's communication, which shall be voted on in the first place.
CHAPTER II
From the review of programs and plans submitted by the Government
Art. 198.
1. If the Government referred to a program or plan requiring the delivery of the Congress, the Bureau shall order its submission to the competent Commission.
2. The Commission Bureau shall organise the procedure and set time limits for the procedure. The Commission shall, where appropriate, assign a Ponence to study the programme or plan in question. The debate in the Commission will be in accordance with the previous chapter, it being understood that the deadline for tabling motions for resolutions will be three days, if the Bureau of the Congress has decided that they should be discussed in the plenary session. Camera.
CHAPTER III
From examining reports to be submitted to Congress
Art. 199.
1. The annual report of the Court of Auditors shall be drawn up in accordance with the provisions of the previous Article.
2. The President of the Congress, according to the Bureau and heard by the Board of Portsates, at the request of a Commission, may request the Court of Auditors, in the cases referred to in its Organic Law, to forward to the Chamber reports, documents or background on a particular subject.
Art. 200.
1. Having received the annual report or an extraordinary report from the Ombudsman and, once it has been included on the agenda, he shall give an oral presentation to the plenary session or, where appropriate, to the Permanent Diputación, a summary of the report. After this exhibition, you will be able to use the word for up to fifteen minutes, a representative of each Parliamentary Group to set your position.
2. The Members, the Parliamentary Groups and the Commissions may request, in a reasoned written form and through the President of the Congress, the intervention of the Ombudsman for the investigation or clarification of acts, resolutions and specific conduct produced in public administrations, affecting a citizen or group of citizens.
Art. 201.
Other reports which, by constitutional or legal provision, must be submitted to the General Courts or to the Congress of Deputies, shall be the subject of the processing provided for in Articles 196 and 197 of this Regulation, excluded from the initial intervention of the Government, which may or may not be given according to its nature, to the formulation of motions for resolutions.
CHAPTER IV
From Government Information
Art. 202.
1. Members of the Government, on their own request or when requested by the relevant Commission, shall appear before the Commission to hold a briefing.
2. The session will consist of the following phases: the Minister's oral presentation, suspension for a maximum of forty-five minutes, so that the Members and Parliamentary Groups can prepare the formulation of questions or observations, and subsequent response by the member of the Government.
3. The members of the Government may, for these purposes, be assisted by the authorities and officials of their departments.
Art. 203.
1. The members of the Government, on their own request, or by agreement of the Bureau of the Chamber and the Board of Portspersons, shall appear before the Plenary or any of the Commissions to report on a particular matter. The initiative for the adoption of such agreements shall be the responsibility of two Parliamentary Groups or one fifth of the members of the Chamber or of the Commission, as the case may be.
2. After the oral presentation by the Government, the representatives of each Parliamentary Group can speak for ten minutes by setting positions, asking questions or making comments, which will be answered without further voting.
3. In exceptional cases, the Presidency may, in agreement with the Bureau and hear the Board of Portlets, open a shift so that Members can briefly ask questions or ask for clarifications on the information provided. The President shall, in effect, set a maximum number or time of assistance.
TITLE XII
OF THE PROPOSALS FOR APPOINTMENT AND APPOINTMENT OF PERSONS
Art. 204.
1. The proposals for the appointment of the four members of the General Council of the Judiciary and the four Magistrates of the Constitutional Court, respectively, of Articles 122, 3 and 159, 1 of the Constitution, will be agreed by the Full House.
2. Each Parliamentary Group may propose up to a maximum of four candidates for each of the institutions, with a maximum of five minutes in effect.
3. Deputies will be able to write on the ballot up to four names
4. The four candidates with the highest votes will be elected, both for the General Council of the Judiciary and the Constitutional Court, as long as they have obtained at least three-fifths of the votes of the members. of the Congress.
5. If the first vote does not cover the four posts with the requirements referred to in the preceding paragraph, successive votes shall be taken, in which the number of candidates from a number shall be progressively reduced. more than twice the number of posts to be filled. In these successive votes, a number of candidates may be included on the ballot as well as the number of posts to be filled. The Presidency may, if the circumstances so advise, interrupt, for a reasonable period of time, the course of the vote.
6. The potential draws, with relevance for the purpose of the proposal, would be addressed in another vote among those who had obtained the same number of votes.
Art. 205.
The system established in the previous article, adapted to the reality of the posts to be covered and to the other legal requirements, will apply to the cases in which a legal precept provides for the proposal, the acceptance or the appointment of persons by a qualified majority of members of the Congress of Deputies.
Art. 206.
In the event that other persons without a qualified majority need to be elected, the election will take place in the way that the Board of the Speaker of the House of Representatives proposes, and accepts the plenary session. If a direct election is to be held by the plenary session, the proposal of the Bureau shall contain a formula of limited suffrage in the light of the number of appointments to be made and the composition of the Chamber.
TITLE XIII
OF MATTERS PENDING THE TERMINATION OF THE MANDATE OF THE CONGRESS OF DEPUTIES
Art. 207.
Dissolved the Congress of Deputies or the expiration of their term of office, all outstanding issues of examination and resolution by the House will be expired, except those of those who are constitutionally required to know their Diputación. Permanent.
REPEAL PROVISION
The provisional Regulation of the Congress of Deputies of 13 October 1977 is hereby repealed, as well as the rules of its development.
FINAL PROVISIONS
First.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Gazette of the General Cortes. It shall also be published in the Official Journal of the State.
Second.
The reform of this Regulation will be dealt with by the procedure established for the proposals of the Congress ' bill of initiative. Its approval will require an outright final vote by an absolute majority.
Third.
In all those matters that refer to the General Courts or which require joint sessions or the constitution of joint bodies of the Congress and Senate, s will be in accordance with the Rules of Procedure of the General Courts. refers to Article 72 of the Constitution, without prejudice to the application of this Regulation in all that is not provided for by the Constitution or which requires a separate procedure or vote by the Congress of Deputies.
Fourth.
The rights, duties, situations, functions and powers of the officials in the service of the Congress shall be as determined in the Staff Regulations of the General Courts.
Fifth.
The oral questions in the Commission and with a written answer in matters of the competence of the Public Ente Radiotelevisión Española will be answered directly by the Director General or the Board of Directors of the Public entity subject to the same rules as in this Regulation are laid down for questions to the Government.
TRANSIENT PROVISIONS
First.
1. The processing of any matter pending before the Congress of Deputies upon the entry into force of this Regulation shall be in accordance with the provisions of the pending procedure or procedures.
2. However, the legislative procedures, in which the time limit for the submission of amendments would have been completed before the entry into force of this Regulation, shall follow the procedures laid down in the provisional Regulation of the Congress of Deputies.
Second.
The provisions of Article 23 shall apply from the legislature following the entry into force of this Regulation.
Third.
The adaptation of the current Commissions to the provisions of this Regulation will be made within 15 days of its entry into force.
Fourth.
Members who are required to enter into force of this Regulation shall comply with the requirement laid down in Article 20. 1. 3., in the first plenary session to attend.
Palace of the Congress of Deputies, February 10, 1982. The President of the Congress of Deputies, Landelino Lavilla Alsina.
