Parliament's Rules of Procedure
Rule 51
Procedure with joint committee meetings Where the conditions set out in Rule 49(1) and Rule 50 are fulfilled, the Conference of Presidents may, if it is satisfiJoint committees 1. When a question of competence is referred to it pursuant to Rule 188(2), the Conference of Presidents may decide that the procedure with joint committees is to be applied, provided that : -the matter is of major importance, decide that a procedure with joint meetings offalls, on the basis of Annex VII, indissociably within the competences of several committees; and a joint vote is to be applied- it is satisfied that the matter is of major importance. 2. In that event, the respective rapporteurs concerned shall draw up a single draft report, which shall be examined and voted on by the committees involved at joint meetings held under the joint chairmanship of the committee Chairs concerned. The committees involved may set up inter- committee working groups to prepare the joint meetings and votes. concerned, under the joint chairmanship of the committee Chairs. In order to adopt the draft report, the joint vote must be supported by a simple majority of the members present from each committee. The rights attaching to the status of committee responsible may be exercised by the committees concerned only when acting jointly. The committees involved may set up working groups to prepare the meetings and votes. 3. If the matter comes under the ordinary legislative procedure within the meaning of Article 294 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the procedure with joint committees shall apply at every stage of that procedure. 4. If Parliament is required to consider a draft delegated act or a draft implementing measure based on an act which has been dealt with under the procedure with joint committees, the President, acting on a recommendation from the Chair of the Conference of Committee Chairs, shall determine without delay, and on the basis of the criteria laid down in paragraph 1, which committee is to be responsible, or which committees are to be jointly responsible, for considering the draft text in question.