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First Agenda – Green Party Autumn Conference 2008 First Agenda – Green Party Autumn Conference 2008 September 5th to 8th, 2008 at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London Contents: page Introduction 2 Section A (Reports) – to be included in the Second Agenda Section B (Voting Papers) B10 Culture Voting Paper 3 Section C (Policy Motions) C21 Trade Union Reps 4 C22 Update EU Policy 5 C23 EU Policy – Biofuels 5 C24 Ammunition 5 C25 Armed Forces 5 C26 Afghan Opium 6 C27 Enabling Motion – Policing 6 C28 EU Policy - Social Chapter 6 C29 Minimum/Maximum Wage 7 C30 Free School Meals 7 C31 Daylight Saving 7 C32 State Funding Political Parties 7 C33 Adult Social Care Funding 8 C34 Economics 8 C35 Replace Personal Trading with Cap & Dividend 8 C36 Conduct of Elections 8 C37 Anti-Semitism (1) (Fox) 9 C38 Anti-Semitism (2) (Lord) 9 C39 Building Regs/Climate Change 9 C40 Broadening Climate Change 10 C41 Carbon Quotas for the Elderly 10 C42 Right to Rent 10 Section D (Organisational motions) D51 Winding up defunct parties 11 D52 MfSS Sections for Review 11 D53 SOCC Timetable 11 D54 Election Strategy 12 D55 Consensus Decision-making 12 D56 Training Day at Spring Conference 12 Section E (Draft Voting Papers) E61 Education 12 Section O (Out of Order motions) O1 Policy Motion - EU Migration (1) 17 O2 Policy Motion - EU Migration (2) 17 O3 Organisation Motion - Elected Representatives 20 O4 Organisational Motion – Criteria for funding Parliamentary By-Election 21 List of contacts 22 Prioritisation Ballot 23 First Agenda for Green Party Spring Conference 2008 page 1 / 23 Introduction to First Agenda Conference Standing Orders Convenor, Dean Walton, 202 state that all motions must be Malpas Road, Brockley, SE4 Welcome to the First Agenda for accompanied by a synopsis of not 1DH, 07880 748259, the Green Party’s Autumn more than 50 words which will [email protected] to reach Conference 2008. appear in the Agenda Summary. him by 23:59 on 24th July 2008. The deadline for the Final Agenda If motions are not accompanied Email signatures for amendments and reports is by synopsis, SOC may devise a SOC does accept e-mail Thursday 24th July 2008. synopsis from the text included, signatures. The procedure has although it is not obliged to do so. been simplified by SOC. To sign An electronic version is available If you do not include a synopsis a motion by email please ensure on request as an rtf file (approx. with your motion you run the risk you include your membership 400kB) from the SOC Convenor, that nothing will appear in Green number (which you can get a Dean Walton, email address Activist apart from the title, and it membership card if you still have [email protected]. Paper won’t be prioritised, and may not one, or your introductory letter or copies are available from Green be reached at Conference. by calling Party Office), your local Party Office, 1a Waterlow Road, party and if you are the contact London, N19 5NJ, telephone 020- If your synopsis is more than 50 for a motion or amendment your 7272-4474 words, it will probably be cut by address and email address that SOC. members can contact you on. Content of the First Agenda There is 1 voting paper (Culture), Prioritisation Ballot Please help SOC by only 22 policy motions, and 6 The SOCC state that SOC must enclosing one motion or organisational motions; 4 motions conduct a ballot to assist in the amendment in each email and by have been ruled out of order and prioritisation of the motions. The not forwarding transcripts of the are included at the end of the precise format is not laid out. This debates that have been held by Agenda. A number of proposals time SOC has adopted a different members prior to agreeing to a were submitted with insufficient process to enable a very final version of the text– this also signatures and were not therefore straightforward on-line ballot to reduces the possibility of error. included at any place in this take place. All members are agenda. asked to vote for their top ‘3’ Committee Elections motions in sections ‘C’ & ‘D’. Elections will be held at Errors in the Agenda Conference for all Committees. If you notice any errors in the first There is a prioritisation ballot form These are the Standing Orders, agenda please notify the at the end of this agenda for Conferences, Campaigns, Policy, convenor of SOC for correction in members who do not have International, Disputes the final agenda. access to the internet. Additional Resolution, and the Green World copies have been sent to local Editorial Board. For information Deadlines for receipt of party co-ordinators. Please send on these elections please contact motions / amendments prioritisation ballots to arrive by the SOC Convenor. The date announced as the 23:59 on Thursday 24th July deadline for receipt of motions / 2008. Rules for Motions & amendments is the last date for Emergency Motions receipt by the SOC Convenor, or Amendments to motions SOC would like to remind named recipient. Motions / Amendments should be everyone that although Standing amendments arriving after the addressed to the motions as they Orders are suspended when an deadline will not be considered. appear in the First Agenda emergency motion is discussed, it (including the Voting Papers) and is only Section A that is The Royal Mail does not must be signed by at least four suspended. This is the section guarantee that first class post will Green Party members. There is that deals with the requirement to be delivered the next day. It does no limit to the number of submit motions by the First guarantee that mail posted using amendments any Party member Agenda deadline. its Special Delivery service will be may sign. delivered the next day (by The section of the standing 1:00pm), though you should They should be sent to the orders that deals with reasons for check locally for latest posting address below, to arrive by the SOC ruling motions out of order is times. If you want to be sure that end of Thursday 24th July 2008. NOT suspended. This is Section your submission arrives the next Please post well before the C9 of the standing orders, which day then you should use the deadline as amendments and states: Special Delivery service and not signatures arriving after the rely on first class post. deadline will not be considered “Motions or amendments to (see section above on deadlines). motions shall be ruled out of However SOC does allow order on grounds of being: members to send motions & Address for amendments, a) contrary to the Constitution amendments by email – see later reports, prioritisation ballots b) retrospective in their effect in this section for further Prioritisation ballots and anything c) ambiguous information. intended for the Final Agenda d) vague (e.g. amendments and reports) e) trivial or requiring no Summaries and Synopses should be sent to the SOC consequential action First Agenda for Green Party Spring Conference 2008 page 2 / 23 f) substantially changing policy Section B (Voting Papers) onus is on those claiming public areas, or having complex interest to demonstrate their implications for other areas, B10. Culture Voting Paper case. The Green Party without having passed through (submitted by Policy recognises that an individual's the agreed process of Committee) actions in placing consultation or seeks to amend their private life in the public the principles passed in a policy Synopsis: domain (for example politicians or motion or Voting Paper less than This Voting Paper represents a celebrities inviting media two years previously, or if it seeks new section to be inserted into attention) may undermine their to re-present a policy proposal the Culture Media and Sport right to privacy. which has been debated and (CMS) chapter of MfSS and defeated at a Conference less which will then replace the CULTURE, CREATIVITY & THE than two years previously except existing Arts chapter. ARTS where it is proposed by Regional Council and agreed by SOC that It also includes material on Background the specific exception to that Censorship and on Sponsorship requirement shall be made in in Sport and Media to be inserted CMS400. For the purposes of this respect of an area of Party Policy into the relevant places in the chapter ‘culture’ means all forms for which urgent need to update existing CMS chapter. The of artistic expression, including or clarify the policy outweighs the paragraph numbering indicates entertainment, such as film, normal consideration of the insertion point within the CMS drama, dance, painting, procedure. chapter. photography, sculpture, crafts, architecture, design music and In addition, Section G1 of the Motion: delete the Policy similar activities. It also includes Standing Orders states: Statement on National Lottery the historical record of such b) Emergency motions shall only (RCMS96.1) and the existing activities. be accepted provided Arts chapter of MfSS and i) the issue has arisen, or has replace with the following CMS401. Culture is essential to substantially changed, since the inserted into the Culture Media human fulfilment. As a human deadline for motions and Sport chapter. need, it enhances the economy ii) the motion is consistent with both directly and indirectly: where the MfSS and neither changes CENSORSHIP & PRIVACY people are more fulfilled they are nor adds to the text of the MfSS likely to contribute more to their c) No amendments to the CMS206 The Green Party is work and to society. In a ‘Green’ Constitution or Standing Orders opposed to all forms of society people of all ages and are permitted under this censorship in the media and backgrounds would have access suspension.
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