1.Amendments for consideration in Ϸվ may be tabled by the committee responsible, a political group or Members reaching at least the low threshold. The names of all co-signatories shall be published.
Amendments shall be tabled in writing and signed by their authors.
Amendments to proposals for legally binding acts may be accompanied by a short justification. Such justifications shall be the responsibility of the author and shall not be put to the vote.
2.Subject to the limitations laid down in Rule 181, an amendment may seek to change any part of a text. It may be directed to deleting, adding or replacing words or figures.
In this Rule and Rule 181, the term “text” means the whole of a motion for a resolution/draft legislative resolution, of a proposal for a decision or of a proposal for a legally binding act.
3.The President shall set a deadline for the tabling of amendments.
4.An amendment may be presented during the debate by its author or by any other Member appointed by the author to replace him or her.
5.Where an amendment is withdrawn by its author, it shall fall unless it is immediately taken over by another Member.
6.Amendments shall be put to the vote only after they have been made available in all the official languages, unless Ϸվ decides otherwise. Ϸվ may not decide otherwise if at least 38 Members object. Ϸվ shall avoid taking decisions which would place Members who use a particular language at an unacceptable disadvantage.
Where fewer than 100 Members are present, Ϸվ may not decide otherwise if at least one tenth of the Members present object.
On a proposal from the President, an oral amendment, or any other oral modification, shall be treated in the same way as an amendment not made available in all the official languages. If the President considers that it is admissible under Rule 181(2), and save in the case of objection under Rule 180(6), it shall be put to the vote in accordance with the order of voting established.
In committee, the number of votes needed to object to such an amendment or such a modification is established on the basis of Rule 219 proportionally to that applicable in plenary, rounded up, where necessary, to the nearest complete number.