Amendment No. 41 | Doc. 15025 | 27 January 2020

The functioning of democratic institutions in Poland

Signatories: Mr Piero FASSINO, Italy, SOC ; Ms Doris BARNETT, Germany, SOC ; Mr Maurizio BUCCARELLA, Italy, NR ; Mr Gerardo GIOVAGNOLI, San Marino, SOC ; Mr Michael LINK, Germany, ALDE ; Mr Christian PETRY, Germany, SOC ; Mr Axel SCHÄFER, Germany, SOC

Origin - 2020 - First part-session

In the draft resolution, paragraph 16, replace the words:

"The Assembly therefore invites its Monitoring Committee to consider expediting the periodic review report on Poland in the framework of monitoring of membership obligations of all member states of the Council of Europe."

with the following words:

"The Assembly therefore decides to open the monitoring procedure in the light of the fact that Poland has insufficient checks and balances."