Setting up of a Working Party to study the institutional reform of the Council of Europe

Order 115 (1958)

Author(s):

Parliamentary Assembly

The Assembly

Instructs the Bureau to set up a working party composed of a small number of Representatives and qualified experts, to work out :

a the detailed basis of an agreement for a merger between the Council of Europe and O.E.E.C., taking inter alia, as its point of departure, Opinion No. 26, the suggestions made during the debates in the Assembly, the Report of the Acting Secretary-General (Doc. 682) and the work of the Council of Europe/O.E.E.C. Liaison Committees ; and

b proposals for amending the Statute of the Council of Europe, taking as its point of departure the Report of the Bureau (Doc. 763) and bearing in mind the views expressed during the Assembly's debate thereon.

The working party will lay its findings before the Bureau which, after consulting the appropriate Committees, must submit proposals to the Assembly at the first part of the Tenth Session.