on access to nationality and the effective implementation
of the European Convention on Nationality, the Assembly recommends
that the Committee of Ministers:
2.1 examine
ways and means of promoting accession to the European Convention
on Nationality (ETS No. 166), as well as its speedy implementation
at national level;
2.2 re-establish an expert committee on nationality, which
could conduct a study on new trends related to nationality matters,
such as the growing acceptance of multiple nationality, acquisition
of nationality at birth by children of long-term residents or conditions
for naturalisation, including the criterion of residence, and examine
the current and continuous relevance of the Convention on the Reduction
of Cases of Multiple Nationality and on Military Obligations in
Cases of Multiple Nationality (ETS No. 43) and its protocols (ETS
No. 95, ETS No. 96 and ETS No. 149);
2.3 stimulate and supervise, in co-ordination with the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the member States in the
establishment of a statelessness determination procedure at the national
level, in accordance with their obligation under the European Convention
on Nationality to avoid statelessness;
2.4 draft a recommendation on the matters referred to in paragraph
2.1 above.
