The minutes of each sitting, drawn up by one of the secretaries, are approved at the start of the following sitting and signed by the chairman and secretary.
The minutes shall contain the date and time of the sitting, the names of the chairman, the members of the Congress of Elected Representatives present or represented and the secretary or secretaries of the sitting, the quorum, the agenda for the sitting, the resolutions adopted and the reports on the basis of which they were adopted, requests for special votes, the results of votes, specifying, in the case of public votes, the names of the voters and the direction of their votes, and the substance of the discussions during the sitting.
The minutes shall be signed by one of the secretaries.
In the week following the meeting at which they were adopted, the minutes are published permanently and free of charge in electronic form on the local authority’s website and a paper copy is made available to the public. They are forwarded to the assembly of the local authority by the president of the congress of elected representatives.
The original copy of the minutes, whether drawn up on paper or on a digital medium, shall be kept under conditions that ensure their durability.
Any elector or taxpayer of the territorial authority has the right to request communication without travelling and to take a copy of the minutes of the meetings of the congress of elected representatives and to reproduce them in the press.