Organs of the Union

Organs of the Union

The First Branch

The General Assembly

Date of decision 12/1/2013

Article 9

The General Assembly is composed of members of the Union which are the constitutional courts and councils and supreme courts that hold a task of constitutional judiciary.

Article 10

The General Assembly of the Union shall have the following competences:
  1. Establishing the financial system and the rules of procedure of the Union
  2. Setting the plan of activities of the Union for the next session
  3. Authentication of the final account of the last two years and ratification of the budget of the Union for the two coming years, such that budget allocation for each year is made by a decision of the Executive Office
  4. Confirming and developing the ways of cooperation between the Union’s members and similar regional and international bodies
  5. Considering the report of the Union’s president concerning the Union’s various activities, besides considering the financial report prepared by the secretary general
  6. Election of the secretary general of the Union
  7. Ratification of the agreements convened by the Union –within the scope of its purposes- with other regional and international organizations
  8. Deciding admission to the Union membership by a majority of the members present
  9. Appointing an auditor at the Union upon the suggestion of the Executive Office
  10. Discussing and reporting any topics suggested by the Executive Office
  11. The General Assembly may form sub-committees composed of the Union members and recourse to experts to study specific topics.

Article 11

The General Assembly shall meet in an ordinary session once every two years, and it may convene for an extraordinary session upon the request of one third of the Union members or upon a suggestion of the Executive Office.

The General Assembly shall determine the place of the next session by the end of each session.

Article 12

The meeting of the General Assembly shall be valid by the attendance of the majority of its members; it shall take its decisions by the majority of members present, unless a special quorum is provided for. Each member shall have one vote.

The Secretariat General shall be the rapporteur of the General Assembly.

The Second Branch

The Executive Office

Date of decision 12/1/2013

Article 13

The Executive Office of the Union is composed of the president -as president of the Executive Office- the vice president of the Union, three members elected by the General Assembly for two years and the secretary general who has not the right to vote.

Article 14

The Executive Office of the Union shall have the following competences:
  1. Implementation of the General Assembly decisions
  2. Preparing the draft agenda of the General Assembly and suggesting a topic for the Union scientific symposium after receiving the suggestions of the Union members
  3. Examining the draft budget, passing it to the General Assembly for approval and accepting the donations and bequests consistent with the purposes of the Union
  4. Examining the draft decisions and recommendations
  5. Suggesting the appointment of a Union auditor and presenting this suggestion to the General Assembly
  6. Preparing and organizing conferences and determining the topics to be presented at such conferences and their dates and locations upon the General Assembly decision
  7. Submitting a report to the General Assembly at the beginning of its session including the Union’s activities during the previous two years, the objectives achieved and suggesting means to develop its activity
  8. Ratifying the final account for each financial year and passing it to the General Assembly for approval
  9. Taking enforceable decisions in the urgent matters which arise in between two sessions of the General Assembly, notifying the General Assembly members of those decisions and presenting them to be adopted in the first meeting of the General Assembly
  10. The Executive Office of the Union shall invite any of the constitutional courts and councils and the supreme courts which undertake constitutional judiciary tasks in the Arab states and that are not members to the Union to attend its meetings, upon a request of any of them or upon a suggestion of the Union ordinary General Assembly. It may also invite an international or regional body with a similar activity to attend the Union meetings without the right to vote.

Article 15

The Executive Office shall meet in an ordinary session at the headquarters of the Union or in any member state of the Union once every year upon an invitation of its president.

It may meet in an extraordinary session in case of necessity upon an invitation of its president or upon a suggestion of one of its members after the approval of the majority of its members.

It shall take its decisions after consultation by the available written means of contact.

Article 16

The meetings of the Executive Office shall be valid if attended by the absolute majority of its members.

Article 17

The president of the Union shall be chosen alternatively and for two years for presidents of the constitutional courts and councils and supreme courts members to the Union according to the alphabetical order of their Arab states.

The president of the next session shall be the vice president of the Union.

Article 18

The president of the Union shall be competent to give the order to spend; he may authorize the vice president or the secretary general to do this mission.

Article 19

The president of the Union shall exercise his other competences according to the provisions of this statute.

The vice president shall exercise the president competences in case of his absence for any reason.

The Third Branch

The Secretariat General

Date of decision 12/1/2013

Article 20

The Secretariat General is the executive organ of the Union. It is managed by the secretary general elected for four years by the majority of the members of the General Assembly present.

The General Assembly shall appoint an assistant of the secretary general when it is necessary, and he might be authorized to do some of the secretary general’s missions.

Article 21

The Secretariat General shall have the following competences:
  1. Executing the decisions of the General Assembly and the Executive Office
  2. Performing the work of the Secretariat of the sessions of the General Assembly and the Executive Office, record the records of their meetings and prepare the draft agenda for each meeting
  3. Preparing the topics to be submitted to the Executive Office and the General Assembly and the essential documents and reports
  4. Keeping documents
  5. Handling the financial and administrative affairs of the Union
  6. Notifying the members and bodies invited of the invitations, decisions and recommendations issued by the Union organs
  7. Supervising the publishing of the studies, researches, magazines, bulletins and periodicals issued by the Union and observing their distribution
  8. Supervising and updating the Union website.

Article 22

The secretary general shall submit a report concerning the Secretariat General activities to the Executive Office at every ordinary session.

Article 23

In coordination with the Secretariat General, the court, council or supreme court that hosts the General Assembly meetings shall do the preparatory works and bear the meetings expenses.

Article 24

The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt–as the court at the headquarters country – shall assume the Union financial burdens, except those concerning the secretary general remuneration which shall be determined by the General Assembly upon a suggestion of the Executive Office.