It is because of his position as rapporteur of the commission that the creation of the republican calendar is attributed to Romme.

The rapporteur then writes a report of his or her recommendations on the subject under discussion and the report must be approved by the rest of the commission as well as by the UN Secretary-General before it becomes an official commission document.

On June 3, 1949, he was appointed by that commission as rapporteur on the desirability of establishing a permanent court to try persons guilty of genocide.

* The conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference — Report by rapporteur David Atkinson presented to Political Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

In 2007 – 08, he was again co-rapporteur with Iñigo Méndez de Vigo for Parliament on the Treaty of Lisbon, which replaced the constitutional treaty after two member states declined to ratify it, and was again rapporteur for a new overhaul of Parliament's procedures in 2009.

In October 2011 he was appointed as the European Parliament rapporteur on a new report that will look at improving the law-making process across the EU and reduce the legislative burdon.

As the Parliament's rapporteur on construction products ( 2011 ), she has steered through a new piece of law which improved the single market on construction products whilst ensuring the highest protection against hazardous substances.

After the revision by a new rapporteur, Anne Brasseur, a delegate from Luxembourg representing the Liberal group in the Assembly and several amendments made by the Assembly, the resolution was adopted, by 48 votes against 25.

A new rapporteur will be appointed from the regulatory party, preferably from the same region as the previous rapporteur.

He became President of the Finance Commission of the National Assembly in 1972 and was the deputy presenting the budget ( rapporteur général du budget ) from 1973 to 1978.

As rapporteur of the Foreign affairs Committee, he opposed the European Community of Defence that was defeated by the National Assembly in 1954.

However, after the European Court of Human Rights decided on 27 November 2007 in Tillack v. Belgium that Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights had been violated, the European Parliament rapporteur responsible for drafting a report was not given the green light to suggest that the Ombudsman's suggestion be taken on board.

Maxwell Fyfe was a champion of European integration and a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from August 1949 to May 1952, becoming the Chair of the Assembly's Committee on Legal and Administrative Questions, and rapporteur on the committee drafting the European Convention on Human Rights.

According to Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on food, there was a rush by institutions to enter the food market following George W Bush's Commodities Futures Modernization Act of 2000.

In May 2012 James Anaya, a United Nations special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, conducted the United Nations ’ first-ever investigation into the plight of Native Americans living in the United States.

As rapporteur of the diplomatic committee, in which he supported the policy of Jacques Pierre Brissot, he proposed two of the most revolutionary measures passed by the Assembly: the decree of accusation against the King Louis XVI's brothers ( the Comte de Provence and the Comte d ' Artois ) on 1 January 1792, and the declaration of war against the Habsburg ruler Francis II ( 20 April 1792 ).

When reporting on EU Council deliberations regarding an agreement between the European Community and Moldova, the Romanian rapporteur Jean Marin Marinescu included a recommendation not to make references to the Moldovan language.

I wish to recall here the excellent work done by Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, rapporteur of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, in her two reports on this subject.

Although the procedure is written, on of the highlights of the judgement is the oral conclusions of the rapporteur public ( public magistrate ), giving his personal vision of the case, totally impartial and free, on a pure legal point of view.

Five years later, as rapporteur on naturalization issues, he conferred citizenship upon Marxist thinker Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea, who was a Russian-born Jewish immigrant.

Jackson specialised, as parliamentary rapporteur, on waste legislation.

In 2008 she was rapporteur on the Waste Framework Directive.

Jean Ziegler, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, published in October 2003 a report accusing Israel of starving Palestinian children.

A 1999 Middle East Quarterly article said that a reference to the Qur ' an as a source of antisemitism in a 1997 report to the UNCHR by the UN special rapporteur on racism was removed at the request of the Indonesian representative.

According to Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on food, there was a rush by institutions to enter the food market following the Commodity Futures Modernization Act.

Richard Falk, United Nations special rapporteur on Palestinian human rights, has stated that in the media-distorted picture surrounding the Middle East, those who reports honestly and factually are accused of bias, whereas pro-Israel bias is perceived as mainstream.

Kader Arif, the European parliament's rapporteur for ACTA in Toulouse on April, 13 2007 where he was promoting Ségolène Royal's candidacy for the 2007 presidential election.

A member of the Civil Liberties Committee, Michael Cashman has been a rapporteur on several key initiatives including an important initiative on funerals of those who die in third countries-an issue he was motivated to act on after the death of his own father.

Once registered with the Court, the case is assigned to a judge rapporteur, which can make the final decision that the case is inadmissible.

If the rapporteur judge decides that the case can proceed, the case if referred to a Chamber of the Court which, unless it deems the application inadmissible, communicates the case to the government of the state against which the application is made, asking the government for its observations.

His current work includes the Solvency 2 insurance legislation and its implementation and was the repsonsble MEP for the regulation creating the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Agency ( EIOPA ) based in Frankfurt, for which he is the permanent rapporteur.

Mr. Chalabi was a member immediately before the 2003 US invasion of Iraq of the Department of State sponsored Future of Iraq project, in which he was appointed as rapporteur of the Transitional Justice Working Group.

Evelyne Gebhardt was parliamentary rapporteur for the directive and played an important role in facilitating an agreement with the European People's Party which allowed Parliament to pass the directive with a huge majority and thereby forcing EU governments to follow their line.

From 2005 to 2007, he was rapporteur for the European Parliament on the directive IPRED2 about criminal sanctions for the protection of intellectual property rights ; he succedeed in pushing through a bill which made uniform the criminal sanctions in all EU Member States.

In February 2010 Hennis-Plasschaert, as rapporteur on the issue, led the EP vote stopping an EU-USA agreement which would have granted US authorities access to banking data of European citizens in the SWIFT network.

An accomplished public speaker, Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr. has addressed the European Union, Oxford Union and spoken at a number of colleges and Universities including Harvard, Cambridge, McGill and also served as a Conference rapporteur at a UN meeting on Cultural Diversity.

On a European level, she was the rapporteur to the EP of the “ European Year of Intercultural Dialogue, 2008 .” She is also a member of the Jury for the European Capitals of Culture and a member of the Council of State in Luxembourg.

The rapporteur, the Swiss Councillor Dick Marty, noted that the symposium had been co-organized by the United Nations, and had also been attended by representatives of numerous other states-including the United States-and concluded that:

The Council's special rapporteur on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is its only expert mandate with no year of expiry.

Discussion at each two-day conference begins with all members present, before participants divide into three sub-groups, each having its own chairman and rapporteur to summarise proceedings.

Following the passing of a resolution on " Threats to the lives and freedom of expression of journalists " on 27 January 2007 the Council of Europe appointed him its rapporteur on media freedom.