Article 67

Ministers shall have access to each Chamber and to their commissions. They may be assisted by commissioners designated by them. In addition to the permanent Commissions mentioned in the preceding paragraph, commissions of inquiry may be created on the initiative of the King or at the request of one third of the members of the House of Representatives, or of one third of the members of the House of Councillors, formed to gather elements of information on determined facts or on the management of public services, establishments and enterprises, and to submit their conclusions to the Chamber concerned. No commission of inquiry may be created where the facts have given rise to judicial proceedings and for as long as such proceedings are ongoing. If a commission has already been created, its mission shall end upon the opening of a judicial investigation relating to the facts that motivated its creation. Commissions of inquiry shall be temporary in nature. Their mission shall end upon the deposit of their report with the Bureau of the Chamber concerned and, where applicable, upon the referral to the judicial authorities by the President of the said Chamber. A public sitting shall be reserved by the Chamber concerned for the discussion of the reports of the commissions of inquiry. An organic law shall fix the modalities of operation of these commissions.