DECISION ON THE REALIGNMENT OF THE LEGAL INSTRUMENTS
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The Executive Council,
1. TAKES NOTE of the PRC recommendations on the alignment of the Rules of Procedures of the Assembly, the Executive Council, the Permanent Representatives’ Committee, and the Statute of the Commission;
2. RECALLS Decision Ext/Assembly/AU/Dec.1(XI) requesting the Commission to align all relevant legal instruments, in line with the Institutional Reform;
3. FURTHER RECALLS Decision EX.CL/Dec.1040(XXXIV) requesting the Commission to further review and finalize all relevant legal instruments and submit a report, as well as, the amended version of the legal instruments through the PRC to the 36th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council in January/February 2021;
4. ALSO RECALLS Decision Assembly/AU/Dec.597(XXV)) requesting the Commission to expedite the work of the PRC Sub-Committee on Rules, Standards and Credentials to incorporate into the revised Rules of Procedures on the streamlining of Summit and Working Methods of the African Union;
5. COMMENDS the PRC on the progress achieved in the alignment and REQUESTS the PRC to urgently conclude the process and present the Draft Legal Instruments to the 37th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council in June/July 2020;
6. NOTING that this is a transitional period from the old electoral system of the Members of the Commission to the new modalities adopted as per Decision Ext/Assembly/AU/ Dec.1(XI);
7. RECOMMENDS to the Assembly that flexibility be availed within the timeline for the electoral process, as prescribed by Decision Ext/Assembly/AU/ Dec. 1 (XI) of November 2018, leading to the upcoming election of the Members of the Commission in February 2021, and that this flexibility should not exceed a total of 75 days.