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ORDINARY RULES OF PROCEDURE FOR MEETINGS OF DELIBERATIVE BODIES OF THE COMMUNITY
These Rules of Procedure were adopted by the LACRALO on June 24th 2007. Doc AL/2007/SD/2.Rev1. See Comparative version RoP English / Spanish approved in June 2014. Versión comparada RoP Inglés / Español aprobada junio 2014

• Rule 12 - Voting 
  12.9 The number of votes cast for or against any motion shall be limited by the following calculation with respect to any Assembly that is international in nature:
  a) The number of countries or territories covered by the entire membership of the Assembly shall form the numerator.
  b) The denominator shall be 100.
  c) The result of the division of (a)/ (b) shall be multiplied by 100.
  d) The result of 12.9(c) shall be known as the Maximum Percentage.
  e) The votes cast by delegates representing ALSes normally domiciled in any one
  Country may not in the aggregate exceed the Maximum Percentage. This calculation shall be separately applied to votes for and against any motion.
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• According to Article 12.2 of the Rules of Procedures and “according with that  established in Rules 6.2  the resolutions will be decided by the majority of ALS present and voting; for purposes of these rules, the sentence “ ALS present and voting” refers to the ALS issuing a negative or positive vote. ALS abstaining, will be considered as not having voted”.

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