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 additional Protocol to the Statute of the Council :
i 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.
ii 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.
iii 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.
