Also, the crucial relationship between the AU Commission and the Executive Council is often presented in a manner that seems to misconstrue and misrepresent the power relations between the Executive Council and the other AU organs, going by the legal instruments of the AU and its organs.46 The PAP tends to view the AU as an institutional ensemble with three different arms of governance – the legis. [...] One of the respondents alluded to the problem of ineffective systems and structures for relating the decisions of the PAP to relevant bodies of the AU: 62 “… There are no structures in place to relay the decisions of the PAP to the AU. [...] Although the PAP Protocol is currently under review by the AU,66 the deliberations appeared to pre-empt the outcomes of this review by proposing amendments to the Protocol as well as the PAP’s Rules of Procedure.67 The PAP’s proposed revisions to the Protocol clearly re-state the position that the PAP is the legislative organ of the AU. [...] Also, some independent commentators and some members of the PAP itself do not support it; for example, the AUC seems more interested in locating the institutional development of the PAP within the overall process of strengthening all AU organs, its institutional and policy coherence in light of the decision on the creation of the AU government, and the shift from the AU Commission to the AU Author. [...] There is therefore a vacuum, which 73 AUC chairman presentation on the state of the advancement of the revision of the Protocol during the transformation debate at the 12th Ordinary Session of the PAP ( also referred to as the 1st Ordinary Session of the 2nd Parliament).
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