Having reaffirmed its desire for the institution of a European
Political Authority with limited functions but real powers, comprising
all Nations faithful to democratic ideas,
Urgently recommends that the Committee of Ministers shall
adopt the following policy :
i That,
within the framework of the Council of Europe, specialised authorities
should be instituted which would be competent, respectively, in
the political, economic, social, legal and cultural fields;
ii Although the existence of the Council of Europe essentially
depends upon the presence within its organisation of all the democratic
Nations of Europe, each of them shall nevertheless be free to accede to
the specialised authorities, or to one or several of them;
iii These specialised authorities which it is thus intended
to create and to maintain, shall remain open to any Member State
which may subsequently wish to accede to them. Their organs of administration
and control should be integrated with those of the Council of Europe;
iv Those States which desire, from the outset, to form closer
organic links shall be free to establish them between themselves.
The form these links should assume will be settled by them after
discussions in which all Member States of the Council of Europe
shall take part. The organs of administration and control shall
be instituted according to the methods set forth at the end of paragraph
3. The same opportunities as above for the subsequent accession
of other Member States shall be maintained."
