If a Committee manages to adopt a joint text, it then has to be approved in a third reading by both the Council and Parliament or the proposal is abandoned.

In June 2004, the British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw stated that US authorities had repeatedly assured him that no detainees had passed in transit through Diego Garcia or were disembarked there .< ref > In October 2007 the all-party Foreign Affairs Committee of the British Parliament announced that it would launch an investigation of continued allegations of a prison camp on Diego Garcia, which it claimed were twice confirmed by comments made by Retired US Army General Barry McCaffrey.

In 2001 the Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System recommended to the European Parliament that citizens of member states routinely use cryptography in their communications to protect their privacy, because economic espionage with ECHELON has been conducted by the US intelligence agences.

* One representative nominated by each of the liberal-democratic groups in European parliamentary assemblies ( including the European Parliament and the Committee of the Regions ), and

There is no constitutional court ; matters concerning constitutional rights or constitutional law are processed by the Constitutional Committee of the Parliament ( perustuslakivaliokunta ).

Fine Gael's MEPs sit with the EPP Group in the European Parliament, and FG parliamentarians also sit with the EPP Groups in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and Committee of the Regions.

The term " Home Defence Force " was originally used to refer to the armed forces established by Lajos Kossuth and the National Defence Committee of the Revolutionary Hungarian Parliament during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

Ontario's right to Northwestern Ontario was determined by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 1884 and confirmed by the Canada ( Ontario Boundary ) Act, 1889 of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

This personal statement to Parliament was not accepted by the MP who had asked the original question, and the matter was remitted to the House of Commons Standards and Privileges Committee for investigation.

His son Rahul Gandhi is a Member of Parliament and the General Secretary of All India Congress Committee.

In the Parliament her first formal post was as Chairman of the Social Committee from 1984 to 1987.

Gladstone gave evidence to the Committee: " I approached the subject in the first instance as I think everyone in Parliament of necessity did, with the strongest possible prejudice against the proposal interfere ; but the facts stated were of so extraordinary and deplorable a character, that it was impossible to withhold attention from them.

The French Constitutional Drafting Committee produced translations of all the British North America Acts, pursuant to section 55 of the Constitution Act, 1982, but these were never enacted by Parliament to make them official.

Among TRP prominent members are Emma Bonino, former Italian Member of the European Parliament and former European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid, Marco Pannella, former Italian Member of the European Parliament, Wei Jingsheng, President of the Chinese Overseas Coalition for Democracy, Enver Can, President of the Eastern Turkistan National Congress, Oumar Khambiev, Chechen Health Minister-elect ( 1997 ), Vo Van Ai, President of the Vietnam Committee for Human Rights, Quan Nguyen, President of the International Committee for the Nonviolent in Vietnam, Kok Ksor, President of the Montagnard Foundation, Vanida Tephsouvan, Executive Director of the Lao Movement of Human Rights, Arben Xaferi, Chairman of the Albanian Democratic Party of Macedonia, Pandeli Majko, Minister of Defense of Albania, Prof. Arnold S. Trebach, President International Antiprohibitionist League, and David Borden, Executive Director of DRCNet.

On 20 October 2006, Ulf Holm, a Member of Parliament for the Green Party, reported the Foreign Minister to the Riksdag Constitutional Committee in order to determine whether Bildt's private economic affairs might represent a conflict of interest.

The work by the Constitutional Committee of the Parliament could not find any grounds for questioning the activities of Bildt in these regards.

The Committee findings were not made public but the new program was announced in a Ministerial Statement to Parliament on 20 May 1976.

* An Australian republic: The options: the report of the Republic Advisory Committee, Parliamentary paper / Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia ( 1993 )

Amongst other things, she was a member of two committees of inquiry in the European Parliament, namely the Committee of Inquiry into Racism and Xenophobia and the Committee of Inquiry into Links between Organized Crime and Drugs, as well as of the EC-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee.

As the unprecedented prospect of a military confrontation between the King and Parliament grew, on 4 July 1642 Parliament voted to create a Committee of Safety consisting of ten Members of the House of Commons and five peers, of which Essex was one alongside the Earl of Northumberland, the Earl of Pembroke, the Earl of Holland and Viscount Saye and Sele.

) But Speaker Sam Rayburn, after huddling in Palm Beach with President-elect Kennedy, decided that this year something had to be done about the Rules Committee -- and that he was the only man who could do anything effective.

In February 2002, the International Olympic Committee retroactively decided that the curling competition from the 1924 Winter Olympics ( originally called Semaine des Sports d ' Hiver, or International Winter Sports Week ) would be considered official Olympic events and no longer be considered demonstration events.

The Soviet leadership decided beforehand who would be elected, or rather appointed, to the Central Committee.

While some in the legal sector advocated that the National People's Congress ( NPC ) should be asked to amend the part of the Basic Law to redress the problem, the HKSAR Government decided to seek an interpretation to, rather than an amendment of, the relevant Basic Law provisions from the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress ( NPCSC ).

In 1973, the ISO Technical Committee 68 decided to develop codes for the representation of currencies and funds for use in any application of trade, commerce or banking.

However, due to practical reasons, usually less than half of the members attended the regular Central Committee meetings during this time, even though they decided all key questions.

Germany also threatened not to participate after rumours spread that Coubertin had sworn to keep Germany out, but following a letter to the Kaiser denying the accusation, the German National Olympic Committee decided to attend.

On January 1, 2008, Arkansas State University ’ s Mascot Selection Steering Committee decided to use the Wolves as a mascot.

The War Committee meeting on 15 February 1916 decided to immediately establish a standing joint naval and military committee to co-ordinate both the design and the supply of materiel for the two air services.

FIS also decided to submit a proposal to the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) to allow women to compete at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

In reality the outcome of the trial had already been decided by the Committee of Public Safety around the time the Carnation Plot was uncovered, and she was declared guilty of treason in the early morning of 16 October, after two days of proceedings.

In order to suppress the epidemic and prevent its spread, it was decided to take drastic action, accordingly a Special Plague Committee, with jurisdiction over Pune city, its suburbs and Pune cantonment was appointed under the Chairmanship of W. C. Rand, I. C. S., Assistant Collector of Pune by way of a government order dated 8 March 1897.

In July 1967, the government decided to pour money into what the Plowden Committee defined as Educational Priority Areas, poverty-stricken areas where children were environmentally deprived.

The Central Committee of the CPSU decided that 150 KGB officials were to reinforce the ministry but the implementation of the decision was difficult as the “ volunteered ” officers resisted the transfer.

The RVUs themselves are largely decided by a private group of 29 ( mostly specialist ) physicians — the American Medical Association's Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee ( RUC ).

The group, which became known as the Zangger Committee, decided that it would be informal and that its decisions would not be legally binding upon its members.

In 1958, the AAU's National Weightlifting Committee decided to begin recognizing records for ‘ odd lifts ’.

On the advice of Molotov and Nikolai Bukharin the Central Committee decided to reduce Lenin's work hours.

Although Molotov's faction initially won a vote in the Presidium, 7-4, to remove Khrushchev, the latter refused to resign unless a Central Committee plenum decided so.

Also, in June 2004, the International Cataloguing Standards Committee included Korea as one of the Part III countries, and decided to add seven South Korean Grade Races to the Blue Book list starting from 2005.

The Revolutionary Committee decided to destroy the cathedral via explosives, and asked a local architect to organise it.

The Central Committee decided to initiate the revolution in South Vietnam in January 1959.

The Central Committee decided not to publish the testament.

The Sovereign then determines the issue as decided by the Privileges Committee.