Questions to be included in the Agenda of the Consultative Assembly

Preliminary List | Doc. 152 | 15 May 1953

Author(s):

Committee of Ministers

Origin

List drawn up for t h e Second part of the Session. 1953 - 5th Session - Second part

Thesaurus

Questions to be included in the Agenda of the Consultative Assembly established in pursuance of parapraph 1 of Rule 14 of the Rales of Procedure [(1) (a) See 5th Session, 1953 : Doc. 151 (List of Questions remaining on the agenda at the end of the First Part of t h e Fifth Ordinary Session).] [(1) (b) See 5 th Session, 1953 : Doe. 164 (Supplementary List).]

1. Definition of the policy of the Council of Europe in the light of recent developments in the international situation.

2. Report and Message of the Committee of Ministers, Docs. 122 and 126 (all competent committees).

3. General Report of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community, Doc. 121 (all competent committees).

4. Establishment of an Economic and Social Council of the Council of Europe (Committee on Economic Questions and Committee on Social Questions).

5. Statute of a Political Community of a supranational character (Committee on General Affairs).

6. Rôle of the Council of Europe in the new pattern of organisation of Europe (Committee on General Affairs).

7. Future position of the Saar (Committee on General Affairs).

8. Progress achieved in the sphere of European defence (Committee on General Affairs).

9. Establishment of a procedure for consultation between the European delegations to world organisations (Committee on General Affairs).

10. Co-ordination between the economies of the Member States of the Council of Europe and those of the overseas countries having constitutional links with them (Committee on Economic Questions).

11. Creation of European Companies enjoying a legal and administrative status agreed upon by Member States (Committee on Economic Questions).

12. Removal of customs barriers and trade restrictions in Europe (Committee on Economic Questions).

13. Methods of encouraging, developing and co-ordinating investment and credit for the benefit of European industry (Committee on Economic Questions).

14. Issue of a collective loan for European defence (Committee on Economic Questions).

15. Co-ordination of European transport (Committee on Economic Questions).

16. Common policy of Member States in social matters (Committee on Social Questions).

17. Exchange of war-cripples in order that they may benefit by therapeutic methods in the different member countries of the Council of Europe (Committee on Social Questions).

18. Rôle of the Council of Europe in the field of social security (Committee on Social Questions).

19. Establishment of a European Linguistic Community based on the application of Anglo- French bilingualism (Committee on Cultural and Scientific Questions).

20. Study of ways and means of establishing a European Cinema Pool (Committee on Cultural and Scientific Questions).

21. Inquiry into the use of television as a medium for securing support among the general public for the European Idea (Committee on Cultural and Scientific Questions).

22. Simplification of frontier formalities for travellers (Committee on Legal and Administrative Questions).

23. Settlement of disputes by International Courts of Law (Committee on Legal and Administrative Questions).

24. Conclusion of a European Convention on Extradition, in accordance with the desire of all the Members for common action in the legal field (Committee on Legal and Administrative Questions).

25. Relations between the Council of Europe and non-governmental organisations (Committee on Legal and Administrative Questions).

26. Measures to be taken in order to assist West Berlin refugees (Committee- on Population and Refugees).

27. Measures to be adopted for securing the integration in the economic system of refugees and surplus elements of population (Committee on Population and Refugees).

28. Methods of integration of refugees or surplus agricultural workers in the agricultural economy of the Member States of the Council of Europe (Committee on Population and Refugees).

29. Inclusion of the German, Italian and Dutch languages in the simultaneous interpretation service of the Assembly (Committee on Rules of Procedure and Privileges).

30. Creation of a Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (Committee on Rules of Procedure and Privileges).

31. Enquiry into the national or international bodies connected with local government whose European character suggests that they might be suitably enrolled, in conditions to be specified, in a campaign to arouse ever wider support among the general public for the European Idea (Special Committee on Municipal and Regional Affairs).

32. Preliminary study of measures which might be recommended to enable local authorities to meet the new responsibilities likely to arise from the establishment of the European Communities (Special Committee on Municipal and Regional Affairs).

33. Measures for rendering assistance to the areas of the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Turkey which have suffered damage in the recent disaster (Special Committee on Municipal and Regional Affairs).

34. Study of ways and means of protecting and furthering local autonomy in Member Countries (Special Committee on Municipal and Regional Affairs).

35. Study of ways and means of ensuring the representation of Local Authorities in European Institutions (Special Committee on Municipal and Regional Affairs).

36. Establishment of a European Fund for Inter-Municipal Assistance among the local government administrations of Member States, and under the auspices of the Council of Europe, for the provision of immediate and effective financial aid to any European municipality overtaken by disaster (Special Committee on Municipal and Regional Affairs).