Version that will enter into force on 16 July 2024
TITLE II:LEGISLATIVE, BUDGETARY, DISCHARGE AND OTHER PROCEDURES
CHAPTER 3:ORDINARY LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURE
SECTION 4 - CONCILIATION AND THIRD READING
Rule 78:Joint text
1.Where agreement on a joint text is reached within the Conciliation Committee, the matter shall be placed on the agenda of a sitting of Ϸվ to be held within six or, if extended, eight weeks of the date of approval of the joint text by the Conciliation Committee.
2.The Chair or another designated member of Ϸվ's delegation to the Conciliation Committee shall make a statement on the joint text, which shall be accompanied by a report.
3.No amendments may be tabled to the joint text.
4.The joint text as a whole shall be the subject of a single vote. The joint text shall be approved if it secures a majority of the votes cast.
5.If no agreement is reached on a joint text within the Conciliation Committee, the Chair or another designated member of Ϸվ's delegation to the Conciliation Committee shall make a statement. That statement shall be followed by a debate.
6.During the conciliation procedure between Ϸվ and the Council following the second reading, no referral back to committee shall take place.
7.Rules 51, 52 and 56 shall not apply during third reading.