Article 13 - Committee on Safety and Security at Sports Events

1 For the purposes of this Convention, the Committee on Safety and Security at Sports Events is hereby established.

2 Any Party to this Convention may be represented on the committee by one or more delegates representing lead governmental agencies, preferably with responsibility for sport safety and security, and the NFIP. Each Party to this Convention shall have one vote.

3 Any member State of the Council of Europe or other State Party to the European Cultural Convention which is not a Party to this Convention, as well as any non-member State which is a Party to Convention No. 120, may be represented on the committee as an observer.

4 The committee may, by unanimous decision, invite any non-member State of the Council of Europe which is not a Party to this Convention or to Convention No. 120 and any organisation interested in being represented to be an observer at one or more of its meetings.

5 The committee shall be convened by the Secretary General of the Council of Europe. Its first meeting shall be held within one year of the date on which ten member States of the Council of Europe have expressed their consent to be bound by the Convention. It shall subsequently meet at least every year after its first meeting. In addition it shall meet whenever a majority of the Parties so request.

6 A majority of the Parties shall constitute a quorum for holding a meeting of the committee.

7 Subject to the provisions of this Convention, the committee shall draw up and adopt by consensus its own rules of procedure.