Translation of "comité spécial des vingt-quatre " (French → English) :

Special leave of 10 days shall be granted if the official does not benefit from the full special leave of 20 or 24 weeks by reason of the first sentence of this indent; this additional special leave shall be granted only once for each adopted child.

A. whereas the situation of NGOs in Egypt is alarming; whereas the establishment of a committee to review civil institutions and NGOs, with the aim of tightening legal control over foreign funding of civil society organisations and political foundations, was announced in October 2011 and a request was subsequently made to the Central Bank to monitor all bank transfers to and from NGOs; whereas the offices of 10 foreign-funded organisations were searched and those organisations were investigated and then banned by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) on 29 December 2011; whereas on 5 February 2012 Egypt's military-led govern ...[+++]ment announced that it was putting 19 American citizens and 24 others on trial as part of a criminal investigation into the foreign financing of non-profit-making organisations active in Egypt; whereas Egyptian judges are investigating alleged illegal foreign financing of pro-democracy NGOs and political foundations, and whereas 44 defendants, including 19 Americans, 14 Egyptians, five Serbs, two Germans, two Lebanese, one Jordanian and one Palestinian, have had their cases referred to the Cairo Criminal Court and ordered not to leave the country;

We are going to be creating in the next while a special committee and the four parties in this Parliament are going to talk about nation building when it comes to dealing with the question of greenhouse gas emissions, the climate and the environment for the future.

Henceforth, the European Parliament will be able to consult documents classified as 'confidential', 'secret' and 'top secret' (on the Council's premises and in response to a request from the President of the European Parliament or from a special committee consisting of four members appointed by the Conference of Presidents).

The Committee considered twenty-four bills, including fourteen Government public bills, one of which was introduced in the Senate, six private members' public bills introduced in the Commons and four such bills introduced in the Senate.

Partly because of Sheila Finestone’s work, the Executive Committee set up a special four-person (two men, two women) committee called the Gender Partnership Group which worked to advance the cause of women in the IPU and parliaments.