The general conditions for the member or members of the supervisory authority should be laid down by Member State law and should in particular provide that those members should be either appointed by the parliament or the government or the head of State of the Member State based on a proposal from the government or a member of the government, or the parliament or its chamber, or by an independent body entrusted by Member State law with the appointment by means of a transparent procedure.

E. whereas in August 2012 the NTC handed power to the General National Congress (GNC), an elected parliament which went on to select an interim head of state; whereas voters chose a new parliament to replace the GNC in June 2014 in the form of the House of Representatives (HoR), which relocated to Tobruk; whereas the former GNC, which was dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood, reconvened shortly afterwards and selected its own Prime Minister, challenging the authority of the HoR at a time of fighting during which even the capital Tripoli changed hands; whereas both warring parties are purportedly receiving support from outside powers, i ...[+++]n particular Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates on the HoR (Tobruk) side, and Turkey and Qatar on the new GNC (Tripoli) side;

B. whereas the political track of the Libyan dialogue involved key members of the Libyan democratisation process, including members of the House of Representatives, the General National Congress and the National Transitional Council; whereas other independent stakeholders such as municipal councils, political parties, tribal leaders and women’s organisations contributed to promoting a genuine reconciliation;

Since some of the accused for the same charges were members of the two Chambers of the national Parliament, the latter were asked to judge whether they were only expressing their opinion in the performance of their parliamentary duties and whether (national) absolute immunity was therefore applicable.

On the eve of an important European Council, this House, which represents our citizens although I find it hard to follow the idea that this House also represents the Member States, is putting the European interest first trusting that the Heads of State will do the same.

As regards the setting up and management of businesses by women, there is a certain dynamism in the Maghreb. In Tunisia, for example, where the National Chamber of Female Heads of Companies was set up in 1990, 4850 women were registered as heads of companies in 1994.