Parliamentary Assembly

Try the semantic search!

A semantic search is an approach based around synonyms. It helps find more relevant results even if the exact term or correct spelling isn’t known.

Why is it faster?

1. Because the autocomplete form helps enter search criteria faster;
2. Because related search terms and “domains” are presented visually in a “thesaurus cloud”;
3. Because you can find topics ‘hidden’ in sub-paragraphs;
4. And because results are contextualized with facets.

Our official documents have been semantically annotated with keywords from controlled vocabularies.

What is an adopted text?

The Assembly can adopt three different types of texts: recommendations, resolutions and opinions.

• Recommendations contain proposals addressed to the Committee of Ministers, the implementation of which is within the competence of governments.
• Resolutions embody decisions by the Assembly on questions, which it is empowered to put into effect or expressions of view, for which it alone is responsible.
• Opinions are mostly expressed by the Assembly on questions put to it by the Committee of Ministers, such as the admission of new member states to the Council of Europe, but also on draft conventions, the budget, the implementation of the Social Charter.

Up to the year 2004, the Assembly also adopted texts called Orders (instructions from the Assembly to one or more of its committees). This category of texts was then abolished but some of its characteristics can now form part of Resolutions (see Rule 23 of the Rules of Procedure).

Texts adopted by the Assembly are available on-line in a provisional version as soon as possible after their adoption. The provisional version is replaced by a final version some weeks later. The Adopted texts have been indexed and the full text versions is online as from 1949.