Rome, Hotel Ergife, 30 April - 3 May 1992

1) The Honorary President, the First Secretary, the Treasurer, the President of the Party, the President of the Federal Council and the Vice Treasurer may intervene in every stage of the debate, without time limits.

Except in cases in which it is otherwise specified in the agenda, reporters have no time limits to deliver their reports. The time limit for the reports of the Commissions is 30', and 5' for any replies.

2) Amendments to the draft calendar and draft regulation are to be submitted in writing to the Secretariat of the Presidency within five minutes from the conclusion of the illustration of the proposals, and may not be sub-amended.

Amendments put to a vote are illustrated by the sponsors with speeches lasting no more than 5 minutes each. On each of them, the Presidency authorizes one declaration of voting intention in favour and one against, lasting no more than 3 minutes each.

Each congress participant may propose a single amendment (which may be comprehensive) on the calendar, and one on the regulations.

Draft regulations and draft calendars are distributed to congress participants one hour before the opening of business.

3) Each congress participant may propose points of order to the Presidency, which either accepts them by implementing them, or declares them to be inadmissible by its unchallengeable decision, or puts them to a vote of the assembly, authorizing their illustration for 5 minutes and hearing one speaker in favour and one against for no more than 3 minutes each.

Points of order may in no case alter the calendar and the regulations voted at the beginning of the Congress unless they are proposed by a minimum of one tenth of all congress participants.

Points of order must be submitted in writing to the Secretariat of the Presidency, and may not interrupt an ongoing speech.

4) Motions of no confidence to the Presidency must be submitted and signed by one tenth of congress participants, and are discussed and voted at the same conditions established for points of order.

5) Speeches in the general debate may last a maximum of 15' for members and 7' for non-members.

6) Signatures to speak must be submitted personally to the Secretariat of the Presidency within the deadline announced by the Presidency or established by the calendar.

The Presidency draws up the general list of persons who have signed in, alternating an Italian member every 2 non-Italian members.

7) The elected representatives in the current legislature in the European Parliament and in the national parliaments who are members of the party at the opening of the Congress and have requested the floor to the Secretariat of the Presidency within the deadline established by the calendar, are given the faculty to intervene in the debate (on each item on the agenda), regardless of the order of the signatures to speak, after the conclusion of the second address, starting from the moment in which they so request to the Presidency.

The Presidency accepts no more than 2 of such requests per hour of debate.

8) General motions must be submitted signed by one fifth of congress participants who are members of the party. Each congress participant may submit or sign no more than one general motion. The number of congress participants who are members of the party is specified by the Presidency at the time established by the calendar for the submission of the documents.

Special motions must be submitted by at least 40 congress participants who are members of the party, and may be passed on, by unchallengeable decision of the Presidency, to the Party's responsible bodies.

Each document may be illustrated by one of the sponsors for no more than 20 minutes for general motions and 10 minutes for special motions.

9) Amendments to motions must be signed by at least 35 congress participants for general motions, and by 20 congress participants for special motions, and must be submitted in writing to the Secretariat of the Presidency.

In the event in which the amendments to the motions are not accepted by the sponsors of the documents they are addressed to (acceptance must be expressed by the first signatory), the Presidency gives faculty of speech to one of the sponsors of the amendment for no more than 3'. On each of these, the Presidency hears one speaker in favour and one against for no more than 2' each.

10) Once the voting of the amendments is concluded, the Presidency goes on to the voting of the general motions, and when this is concluded sees to the voting of particular motions (if any), giving faculty of speech for declarations of voting intention of no more than 7' each and to a limited number of members in favour and an equivalent number of members against.

Length and number of the declarations of voting intention are established by the Presidency for each of the two votings.

11) Recommendations may be accepted by unchallengeable decision of the Presidency, and be forwarded to the Party's responsible bodies.

12) Proposals for the modification of the Statute must be submitted in writing to the Secretariat of the Presidency within the deadline established by the calendar or by the Presidency, and must be signed by at least one tenth of congress participants who are members of the party at the time specified by the calendar or by the Presidency for the submission of proposals.

Modification proposals may be illustrated by one of the sponsors for no more than 5' each.

The Presidency puts the proposals to a vote after hearing a limited number of members in favour and as many against or abstained for declarations of voting intention of no more than 3', the number of speakers being established by unchallengeable decision of the Presidency.

Proposals for the modification of the Statute may not be amended.

13) The election of the Secretary and the Treasurer shall be by secret ballot.

14) The election of the Federal Council shall be on restricted and competing lists, formed by a number of candidates which correspond to 2/3 of the final number.

The division of the elected representatives among the competing lists shall be on a majority basis, through the attribution of 2/3 of the elected representative to the list that obtains the majority of votes and of 1/3 to the other list.

In the case of more than two competing lists, the division of 1/3 of the elected representatives among the minority shall be on a proportional basis with the recovery of the remainders and, in each list, according to the order by which candidates were presented.

Each list must also include substitute candidates, in a proportion amounting to one half of the final number of representatives.