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The purpose of the next item is to decide on the committee’s representation for the next meeting of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. As explained in the papers that have been circulated, the committee is responsible for Parliament’s representation on a number of external bodies. The suggestion is that we return to most of those later in the year, but one body, the congress, has a meeting upcoming in October. That will be the last meeting under the congress’s current mandate. At that point, we will have to decide representation on the subsequent mandate, which relates to meetings from March onwards.
Keith Brown was a member of the predecessor committee in the previous session and was the representative on the congress. I therefore suggest that we simply agree that Keith continues in that role—I think that he is willing to do so and to take part in the meeting in October—and that we then consider all the external bodies together at a later time. Unless any discussion is required, is that agreed?
Members indicated agreement.
Thank you for undertaking that, Keith. We look forward to hearing how the congress goes.
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