Version that will enter into force on 16 July 2024
TITLE I:MEMBERS, PARLIAMENT BODIES AND POLITICAL GROUPS
CHAPTER 4:POLITICAL GROUPS
Rule 35:Intergroups
1.Individual Members may form intergroups for the purpose of holding informal exchanges of views on specific issues across different political groups, drawing on members of different parliamentary committees, and of promoting contact between Members and civil society.
2.Intergroups shall be fully transparent in their actions. They shall not engage in any activities which might result in confusion with the official activities of Ϸվ or of its bodies. In particular, they shall not use the name or the logo of Ϸվ. They may not organise events in third countries that coincide with a mission of an official Ϸվ body, including an official election observation delegation.
3.Provided that the conditions laid down in Ϸվ’s internal rules governing the establishment of intergroups are complied with, a political group may facilitate their activities by providing them with logistical support.
4.Intergroups shall be required to make an annual declaration of any support, including in cash or in kind, which, if offered to Members as individuals, would have had to be declared under Annex I.
5.Interest representatives may only participate in intergroup activities organised on Ϸվ’s premises, for instance by attending meetings or events of the intergroup, by offering support to it, or by co-hosting its events, if they are entered in the transparency register established by means of the Interinstitutional Agreement on a mandatory transparency register
(1).
6.The Quaestors shall keep a public register of the intergroups and of the declarations referred to in paragraph 4. The Bureau shall adopt detailed rules on that register and on those declarations and their publication on Ϸվ’s website.
7.The Quaestors shall ensure the effective enforcement of this Rule.
8.In the event of a breach of this Rule, the Quaestors may impose on the intergroup a ban on using Ϸվ’s facilities for a period which may not exceed the remainder of the parliamentary term.
Interinstitutional Agreement of 20 May 2021 between the European Ϸվ, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission on a mandatory transparency register (OJ L 207, 11.6.2021, p. 1).