21. If necessary, the President of the Assembly may refer the matter to the Bureauto examine the circumstances of the alleged breach and make arecommendation as to a possible decision;

22. The Bureau may take one or several of the following decisions:

a. temporary deprivation of the right to participate in the Assembly’s missions orother events, outside statutory meetings;

b. temporary deprivation of the right to speak at meetings;

c. temporary deprivation of the right to sponsor or co-sponsor an amendment ora Supplementary Item;

d. temporary deprivation of the right to submit his/her candidature for electionas an Assembly Officer, and/or to sponsor another candidate;

The President shall then inform the Assembly and the Speaker or other relevant officer of the national parliament concerned accordingly;

23. Should the Bureau decide that a member failed to comply with the code ofconduct, it may instruct him or her to prepare a reasoned statement which he orshe will read out before the Assembly;

24. The OSCE PA calls for the principles of the above Code of Conduct to applyequally to the staff of the International Secretariat;

25. The Parliamentary Assembly calls on the Bureau and the Standing Committeeto act so as to safeguard the relevance and validity of a code of conduct includingthrough considering its annexation to the Rules of Procedure.

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