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The provisions declared non-conforming may not be implemented.
• Legislative committees
• Joint meetings of legislative chambers
Article 113
In addition to the Permanent and Special Commissions, the two Chambers may
constitute one or several joint Commissions [with] parity [Commissions mixtes
paritaires] to reconcile their points of view when they are in disagreement on a
subject of a question on which they must adopt the same decision in identical terms.
If the disagreement persists, the National Assembly decides definitively.
Article 114
Each Chamber of Parliament meets of right in extraordinary session on the fifteenth
day following the proclamation of the results of the legislative elections by the
Independent National Electoral Commission to accomplish:
1. the installation of the provisional Bureau directed by the senior member
assisted by two younger members;
2. the validation of the powers;
3. the election and installation of the definitive Bureau;
4. the drafting and adoption of the Internal Regulations.
The opening sitting is presided over by the Secretary General of the Administration
of each of the two Chambers.
During this sitting, the two Chambers meet to draft and adopt the Internal
Regulations of the Congress.
The extraordinary session ends with the exhaustion of the agenda.
• Length of legislative sessions
Article 115
The National Assembly and the Senate hold of right, each year, two ordinary
sessions:
1. the first opens on 15 March and closes on 15 June;
2. the second opens on 15 September and closes on 15 December.
If the 15th of the month of March or of the month of September is a holiday or occurs
on a Sunday, the opening of the session takes place on the first working day which
follows.
The duration of each ordinary session may not exceed three months.
• Extraordinary legislative sessions
Article 116
Each Chamber of Parliament can be convoked in extraordinary session by its
President on a specific agenda, either at the demand of its Bureau, or of half of its
members, or of the President of the Republic, or of the Government.
Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 2005 (rev. 2011)
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