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Parliamentary working methods during the coronavirus crisis

Survey on remote working in parliaments

This survey is sent to all national parliaments by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).

Please see this letter and note for parliaments for more details about the purpose of this survey, and how the information will be used.

Information about parliamentary working methods during the COVID-19 pandemic is published at https://www.ipu.org/parliaments-in-time-pandemic

For reference, the survey in PDF and Word formats: English: PDF - Word; French: PDF - Word

If bicameral parliaments wish, they can submit separate responses for each chamber. Please identify clearly which chamber the response covers.

For all questions, please contact IPU at press@ipu.org.

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Survey completed by (name, position):

1. Please indicate if parliament is meeting this week

Space Cell	Meetings are taking place as normal	Meetings are limited or reduced	Meetings are taking place remotely	Combination of remote and face-to-face meetings	No meetings are taking place	Parliament is not currently in session
Plenary	Plenary: Meetings are taking place as normal	Plenary: Meetings are limited or reduced	Plenary: Meetings are taking place remotely	Plenary: Combination of remote and face-to-face meetings	Plenary: No meetings are taking place	Plenary: Parliament is not currently in session
Committees	Committees: Meetings are taking place as normal	Committees: Meetings are limited or reduced	Committees: Meetings are taking place remotely	Committees: Combination of remote and face-to-face meetings	Committees: No meetings are taking place	Committees: Parliament is not currently in session

Please provide any other relevant information

2. If your parliament is holding remote meetings, please answer the following questions. If not, please click "Submit" at the bottom of this survey.

Is there a legal framework for holding remote meetings? Have special measures been passed to enable this?

How is/will voting take place during the remote meetings?

What software is/will be used for remote meetings? What software is/will be used for providing/tracking documents and amendments?

Is the remote meeting software hosted internally on Parliament infrastructure or with an external service provider (e.g. cloud based)?

Are you using remote interpretation? If so, please describe how the remote implementation is being implemented.

Please provide details of the person to contact for more information about remote working in your parliament

Name
Title
E-mail
Other contacts

Please list any questions about remote working that you are trying to answer. We will try to connect you with other parliaments that are addressing similar issues

Thank you very much for your input. Please click the "Submit" button to complete this survey.

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