Committee

Label Committee

Description

[not to be confused with Commissions] Committees (Kommission) are groups in the Parliament, composed of a limited number of MPs which are tasked with following the social and political developments in their area of responsibility. In addition to the permanent committees, the office of the council has the the ability to appoint special committees. Committees also may have their own subcommittees.

Co-labels:Delegation

Attributes

• identifier committee_number: integer

  The parliament-assigned number for each committee.

• name: string

  Name of the committee (sometimes including the abbreviation)

• type: string

  Categorical: Permanent, Ad hoc, Working group, Standing

  Permanent committees (Ständig) and ad hoc (Spezial).

• (optional) abbrev: string

  The abbreviation of the committee’s name.

• (optional) abbrev1: string

  Alternate abbreviation of the committee’s name.

• (optional) abbrev2: string

  Alternate abbreviation of the committee’s name.

Connected relations

Outgoing

• ASSIGNED_TO to Bill

• BELONGS_TO to Chamber

• BELONGS_TO to Committee

• SPONSORS to Bill

Incoming

• ACTING_AS from Person

• BELONGS_TO from Committee

• PART_OF from Person

• TAKES_PLACE_IN from Debate

Constraints

• A Committee must contain the attributes ‘committee_number’, ‘abbrev’, ‘type’. The attribute ‘type’ is categorical and must be one of: ‘Ad hoc’, ‘Permanent’, ‘Working group’
• A Committee must follow a defined structure:
  • It must be connected to one and only one Chamber with exactly one BELONGS_TO relation

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