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Remaining on the Agenda of the Assembly at the end of the Fifth Ordinary Session

List of Questions | Doc. 219 | 26 September 1953

Author(s):
Committee of Ministers
Thesaurus

Questions referred to the Committee on General Affairs

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

2. Progress achieved in the sphere of European defence.

3. The Future Position of the Saar.

4. Statute of a Political Community of a supranational character.

5. Role of the Council of Europe in the new pattern of organisation of Europe.

6. Establishment of a procedure for consultation among European Delegations to world organisations.

7. Reconsideration, as far as possible in collaboration with the Committee of Ministers, of earlier Recommendations and Resolutions of the Consultative Assembly capable of application within the plan of action decided upon by the Committee of Ministers.

Questions referred to the Committee on Economic Questions

8. 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.

9. Creation of European Companies enjoying a legal and administrative status agreed upon by Member States.

10. Removal of customs barriers and trade restrictions in Europe.

11. Methods of encouraging, developing and coordinating investment and credit for the benefit of European industry.

12. Issue of a collective loan for European defence.

13. Co-ordination of European transport.

14. Establishment of an Economic and Social Council of the Council of Europe.

Questions referred to the Committee on Social Questions

14 a. Establishment of an Economic and Social Council of the Council of Europe.

15. Common policy of Member States on socia^ questions.

16. Exchange of war-cripples in order that they may benefit by therapeutic methods in the different member countries of the Council of Europe.

17. Investigation of the possibility of co-ordination among the national institutions of the member countries of the Council of Europe concerned with social research, and of the application of such research, particularly in backward areas within the competence of those institutions.

Questions referred to the Committee on Legal and Administrative Questions

18. Simplification of Frontier Formalities.

19. Conclusion of the European Convention on Extradition in accordance with the desire of all Members for common action in the legal field.

20. Settlement of disputes by International Courts of Law.

Questions referred to the Committee on Population and Refugees

20. Measures to be adopted for securing the integration in the economic system of refugees and surplus elements of population.

22. Methods of integration of refugees or surplus agricultural workers in the agricultural economy of the Council of Europe.

Questions referred to the Committee of Cultural and Scientific Questions

23. Establishment of a European Linguistic Community based on the application of Anglo- French Bilingualism.

24. Study of ways and means of establishing a European Cinema Pool.

25. Introduction of the teaching of European Humanities in the Member Countries.

Questions referred to the Committee on Rules of Procedure and Privileges

26. Inclusion of the German, Italian and Dutch languages in the simultaneous interpretation service of the Assembly.

27. Creation of a Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions.

Question referred to the Special Committee to watch over the interests of European nations not represented in the Council of Europe

28. Participation of European non-member Countries in certain of the Council of Europe's activities.

Questions referred to the Special Committee on Municipal and Regional Affairs

29. Study of ways and means of protecting and furthering local autonomy in member countries.

30. Study of ways and means of ensuring the representation of local authorities in European institutions.

31. 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.

32. Establishment of a European Fund for Intermunicipal assistance under the auspices of the Council of Europe.