Draft convention on the promotion of a transnational long-term voluntary service for young people
- Author(s):
- Parliamentary Assembly
- Origin
- Assembly debate on 24 January 2000 (1st Sitting) (see Doc. 8597, report of the Committee on Culture and Education, rapporteur: Mr Dumitrescu). Text adopted bythe Assembly on 24 January 2000 (1stSitting).
- Thesaurus
1. The Assembly welcomes the draft convention on
the promotion of a transnational long-term voluntary service for young people,
which will provide a legislative framework for voluntary activities of young
people undertaken all over Europe.
2. The draft convention is a
recognition de jure of transnational long-term voluntary service as an
effective way of providing non-formal education and training opportunities for
young people and the people with whom they collaborate.
3. The
Assembly welcomes the fact that the draft convention does not permit any
reservations.
4. The Assembly recommends that the Committee of
Ministers introduce the following amendment: "In paragraph 6 of the preamble
after the words ‘transnational long-term voluntary service’ add ‘while
providing mutual non-formal education for volunteers and for the people with
whom they collaborate’.”
5. Recalling the fact that the United Nations
General Assembly proclaimed the year 2001 as the International Year of
Volunteers, the Assembly urges the Committee of Ministers to open the
convention for signature as soon as possible and encourages the member states
of the Council of Europe and other states party to the European Cultural
Convention to sign and ratify the convention so that it can enter into force in
2001.
