Draft of a Protocol for the Amendment of the Statute of the Council of Europe

Resolution 12 (1950)

Author(s):

Parliamentary Assembly

Origin

Adopted 28th August 1950, at the conclusion of the Debate on the second Report of the Committee on General Affairs (see Doc. AS (2) 107 and Sitting of 28th August 1950).

The Assembly,

Having declared that the aim of the Council of Europe is the creation of a European Political Authority with limited functions but real powers,

Instructs the Committee on General Affairs :

1 To submit to the next meeting of the Assembly a plan for the reform of the Statute of the Council of Europe relating particularly to the suppression of the right of veto of the Committee of Ministers.

2 To define the kind of European authority which might be endowed with limited functions but real powers.