on the functioning of democratic institutions in Europe
and the progress of the Assembly’s monitoring procedure, in which
it commends,
, the
remarkable work carried out by the Council of Europe human rights
institutions and monitoring bodies and the acquis they have established
over the years, and recommends that the Committee of Ministers:
1.1 take into account, in its own
periodic reporting procedures, the conclusions contained in the resolutions
and recommendations adopted by the Assembly with regard to country
monitoring reports;
1.2 step up and reinforce existing assistance programmes in
order to support member states in the implementation of their obligations
and commitments to the Council of Europe, by allocating appropriate financial
resources to them and making use of donor funding when necessary;
1.3 continue to work with the member states to develop, where
appropriate, new targeted co-operation programmes to further strengthen
democratic institutions, making full use in particular of the financial
instruments of other international organisations, especially those
of the European Union;
1.4 ensure that the findings and recommendations of the various
Council of Europe monitoring bodies and human rights institutions
are fed directly into the Organisation’s programme of activities,
in particular as regards standard setting, expert assistance and
co-operation programmes. For this purpose, these bodies and institutions
could be invited to give their views as to what they consider to
be priority areas in good time before the adoption of the Organisation’s
programme of activities;
1.5 support the Council of Europe’s human rights institutions
and monitoring bodies by allocating additional resources so as to
further enhance their efficiency and to enable them to strengthen
their followup procedures aimed at verifying the implementation
of their recommendations by member states.
