Speakers address each other in the third person. Say "the honourable delegate" or "fellow delegates". Never say "you" or "I".
A delegate speaks for a country, not for themselves. The third person is what keeps that true. It also keeps a disagreement about policy from turning into a disagreement about a person.
Delegates address the chair and the house before their speech.
This applies to points as well as speeches. A point of information is put to the chair and about the delegate on the floor, not fired at them directly. See Point of information to the speaker.
Nobody insults any member of the house, any guest, any member of staff, or the secretariat.
Say "Less Economically Developed Countries". Do not say "Third World Countries".
In MEDIMUN, a chair speaks English at all times, in the group and during the conference. The only exception is an emergency.
When a public apology is required. Only when a delegate has insulted another person directly. An insult aimed at a political position is not a personal insult. If you are not sure, do not take the apology. Ask the delegate to stop using unparliamentary language instead. Never stage an apology in front of the house. Handle it privately or in writing.
If you are unsure. Chairs address the room as "delegates". Saying "guys" is one of the most common ways a committee loses its formality, and it is very hard to get back.
Delegates keep their placards down until the chair asks for them.
The chair asks. The house then responds. A placard raised before the chair has asked is not a request the chair has to see.
If you are unsure. Delegates raising placards straight after a speech is normal and constant. Remind them to wait for you to ask. Do this every time, calmly, rather than once loudly.
A delegate yields the floor when the chair tells them to. See Yielding the floor.
Eating and drinking during debate is not in order. Water is the exception.
In MEDIMUN, ordering food is not allowed.
In MEDIMUN, anyone caught smoking is removed and banned from all future MEDIMUN conferences immediately.
Announce a break as a time, not as a length. Say "we will meet again at 12.30". Do not say "we will have a thirty minute break".
Add five to ten minutes for people to settle back into the room.
Roll call is taken again after a break. The break does not end when people walk back in. It ends when the house has been counted. See Roll call.
Clapping is only in order when a resolution as a whole passes.
It is not in order after an amendment. It is not in order when a resolution fails.
This is not about politeness. Clapping when a resolution fails reads as celebrating a defeat, and the house is meant to be a body that decides together. See Clapping and conduct during voting.
Delegates do not leave during debate without permission from the chair.
If you are unsure. A delegate who leaves without asking is a problem for the vote as well as for order. The house may need a majority present to take a decision. See Quorum.
For conduct outside procedure, see the Code of Conduct.