Commentaries: Art. 46

The committees are governed by the procedural rules of their respective council, unless this Act or the respective standing orders of the councils provide otherwise.
Resolutions of joint committees of both councils require the agreement of the majority of the voting members from each council, unless this Act provides otherwise.
Persons in the service of the Confederation must normally provide written documents and visual presentations for the committees in two official languages. External experts and representatives of cantons and interest groups shall be notified in the invitation to the committee meeting that they should, if possible, take account of committee being multilingual.¹

Inserted by No I of the FA of 21 June 2013 (Improvements in the Organisation and Procedures of Parliament), in force since 25 Nov. 2013 (AS 2013 3687;BBl 2011 6793,6829). ↩

Art. 46