Committees' Activity

Rules, Ethics and Senatorial Affairs Committee

The following are the subject matters of the Rules, Ethics and Senatorial Affairs Committee:

Examining parliamentary immunity motions, actions associated with a motion to bring a Senator to constitutional accountability in front of the Tribunal of State, conditions for performing a Senator's mandate, expiry of a mandate, examining accusations of failure by a Senator to perform his duties and of behaviour unbecoming to a Senator and other ethical matters, analysing Senators' financial status declarations and presenting the results to the Presidium of the Senate, activities of Senators' offices, expressing opinions on issues defined in the Rules and Regulations of the Senate relating, amongst others, to the interpretation and application of the Rules and Regulations, analysing complaints and motions addressed to the Senate and its bodies, and considering issues arising from the functioning of the Chancellery of the Senate;