Standing Orders of the National Council
(SO-NC)

¹ In the Coun­cil, no one may speak un­less gran­ted the right to do so by the Pres­id­ent.

² Any­one who wishes to speak must sub­mit a writ­ten re­quest to do so to the Pres­id­ent.

³ The Pres­id­ent nor­mally grants the right to speak in the or­der of the re­quests. He or she may however group speak­ers ac­cord­ing to sub­ject mat­ter or in or­der to fa­cil­it­ate an ap­pro­pri­ate ex­change of lan­guages or points of view.

⁴ The group spokes­per­sons and the per­sons sub­mit­ting form­al pro­pos­als speak be­fore the oth­er mem­bers.

⁵ No one may speak on the same mat­ter more than twice.

⁶ The com­mit­tee rap­por­teurs and the rep­res­ent­at­ive of the Fed­er­al Coun­cil are al­lowed to speak when they re­quest to do so.