2.1 ensure that the mandate of the
Council of Europe Co-operation Group to Combat Drug Abuse and Illicit
Trafficking in Drugs (Pompidou Group), currently under review as
part of the revision of the Statutory Resolution, fully supports
an approach to drug policy in Europe that is based on human rights and
public health;
2.2 support the Pompidou Group’s work in creating tools to
assess the implications of national policies for individuals and
public health, as well as rights-based indicators, in co-operation
with other relevant institutions;
2.3 adopt authoritative, comprehensive and concrete guidance
to member States in this area of policy making, with the meaningful
participation of all relevant stakeholders;
2.4 encourage the European Committee for the Prevention of
Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment to pay
particular attention to the availability, accessibility and quality
of harm-reduction measures and drug addiction treatment when conducting
visits to prisons and other places of deprivation of liberty.
