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Document n° GEN 4.2
GEN 4.2 A New Rule III.6: The Permanent Committee on Consensus and Collaboration
6. Permanent Committee on Consensus and
Collaboration
a)
Immediately after an
Assembly, the Central Committee shall appoint members of the Permanent Committee
on Consensus and Collaboration (the “Permanent Committee”), consisting of
fourteen members, of whom half will be Orthodox.
b)
The Orthodox members
of the Central Committee shall appoint the seven Orthodox members, and the other
members of the Central Committee shall appoint the remaining seven.
c)
Of the overall
membership at least half shall be members of the WCC Executive Committee.
Proxies may substitute for absent members, and observers from non-member
churches, or on occasion from churches in association with the WCC, can be
invited by the Permanent Committee.
d)
Two co-moderators
shall be appointed from the membership of the Permanent Committee, one appointed
by the Orthodox members of the Central Committee, and one by the other members
of the Central Committee.
e)
The term of the
members of the outgoing Permanent Committee shall conclude upon election of
replacement members following an Assembly.
The Permanent Committee shall be considered a committee of the Assembly
and shall advise the Business Committee of the Assembly.
f)
The Permanent
Committee will have responsibility for:
1.
continuing the
authority, mandate, concerns and dynamic of the Special Commission (mandated by
the Eighth Assembly, Harare, Zimbabwe, 1998);
2.
giving advice and
making recommendations to governing bodies of the WCC between Assemblies in order to contribute to the formation
of consensus on matters proposed
for the agenda of the WCC;
3.
facilitating
improved participation of the
Orthodox in the entire life and work of the Council;
4.
offering counsel and
providing opportunity for united action in matters of common
interest;
5.
giving attention to
matters of ecclesiology.
g)
The Permanent
Committee will report to the Central Committee and to the Executive
Committee.
If the proposed new rule is accepted, the
present Rule III.6 (Other committees of
the Assembly) will become III.7.
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