The Assembly,
Considering it desirable that the execution of agreements which do not apply immediately to all the Member States of the Council of Europe should be effected within the framework of the Council,
Recommends the Committee of Ministers to propose to the Governments of the Member States of the Council of Europe the adoption of the following Protocol to the Statute of the Council:
By special Conventions concluded between the Member States or between some of them, powers not provided for by the Statute of the Council may be conferred both on special Committees of the Committee of Ministers and on Committees of the Consultative Assembly, composed of Representatives of the States which are signatories of these special Conventions, without thereby binding either the States which are not signatories of these Conventions or their Representatives in the Consultative Assembly.
The special Committees of the Committee of Ministers and the Committees of the Consultative Assembly indicated above shall regularly submit reports on their activities together with the necessary documentation, the aforesaid Committees to the Committee of Ministers, the Committees to the Consultative Assembly.
The Secretariat-General of the Council of Europe may be called upon, by the special Conventions mentioned above, to render assistance to new organs established between the Member States, or between some of them. Any additional expenses of the Secretariat-General which might result from these new duties shall be borne by the Council of Europe, on condition that at least two-thirds of the Member States are parties to the said Conventions. When less than two-thirds of the Member States of the Council are parties to the said Conventions, the possible additional expenses of the Secretariat shall be borne by the signatory States under conditions fixed by the Convention.
See Doc. AS (2) 107, and Sitting of 28th August 1950.