1 Amendments of Cecilia WIKSTRÖM related to 2013/2031(REG)
Amendment 23 #
Rule 7 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. The Member concerned shall be given an opportunity to be heard, may present any documents or other written evidence deemed by that Member to be relevant and may be represented by another Member. The Member shall not be present during debates on the request for waiver or defence of his or her immunity, except for the hearing itself. The Chair of the committee shall invite the Member to be heard, indicating a date and time. The Member may waive the right to be heard. If the Member fails to attend the hearing pursuant to that invitation, he or she shall be deemed to have waived the right to be heard, unless he or she asks to be excused from being heard at the date and time proposed, giving reasons. The coordinators of the committee are empowered to rule, upon a recommendation by the rapporteur, whether such a request is to be accepted in view of the reasons given. No appeals are permitted on this point. If the coordinators of the committee grant the request to be excused, the chair of the committee shall invite the Member to be heard at a new date and time. If the Member fails to comply with the second invitation to be heard, the procedure shall continue without the Member having been heard. No further requests to be excused, or to be heard, may then be accepted.