Standing Orders of the National Council
(SO-NC)

¹ For every item of busi­ness, the com­mit­tee nom­in­ates one of its mem­bers to re­port to the Coun­cil and to present the pro­pos­als of the com­mit­tee (the rap­por­teur). It may also nom­in­ate ad­di­tion­al mem­bers of a dif­fer­ent lan­guage group to speak on the same sub­ject. The com­mit­tee pres­id­ent only acts as rap­por­teur in ex­cep­tion­al cases.

² If there are sev­er­al rap­por­teurs for the same item of busi­ness, they shall di­vide the work by top­ic. A re­pe­ti­tion of re­ports in a dif­fer­ent of­fi­cial lan­guage shall be avoided un­less the mat­ter is of great im­port­ance or com­plex. The in­tro­duct­ory speech is lim­ited to the main points of the mat­ter.

³ The com­mit­tee may de­liv­er a writ­ten re­port to the Coun­cil. A writ­ten re­port is re­quired if no oth­er of­fi­cial ex­plan­at­ory doc­u­ment ex­ists, or if the writ­ten pro­ced­ure (Art. 49) is re­quired to con­sider the item of busi­ness.