1. In accordance with Article 19 of the Statute of the Council of Europe the Committee of Ministers has the honour to address its Sixth Report to the Consultative Assembly, on the occasion of its Seventh Ordinary Session.
2. This Report is a continuation of the Supplementary Report transmitted to the Assembly in September, 1954 and covers the period from 14th September, 1954, the opening of the second part of the Assembly's Sixth Ordinary Session, to 20th June, 1955.
3. During the period under review the Committee of Ministers continued to pursue the aims set out in the Statute of the Council of Europe, seeking their fulfilment by the undertaking of common action in economic, social, cultural, scientific, legal and administrative matters. The Committee of Ministers held its Fifteenth Session in Paris on December 19th, 1954, and the Ministers' Deputies held eight meetings, the last one of which, from 15th to 20th June, was devoted to the preparation of the Sixteenth Session of the Committee of Ministers, to be held on July 4th, 1955. This Report summarises the work done during the period under review.
4. During its Fifteenth Session the Committee of Ministers, after hearing a statement by its Chairman, M. S. Stephanopoulos, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece, held a general discussion on the rôle of the Council and its position in relation to other international organisations.
At the end of this discussion, the Committee of Ministers adopted Resolution (54) 26, which reads as follows :
" The Committee of Ministers,
Being desirous that the mission of the Council of Europe in the system of intergovernmental collaboration among European countries should be better defined;
Reaffirming that the task of the Council of Europe is, among other things, to serve as the general framework of European policy;
Considering that for this purpose it is necessary to enable the Assembly to fulfil more effectively its consultative rôle,
Resolves :
Acting on these instructions, the Deputies have prepared a report for consideration by the Committee of Ministers at their Sixteenth Session.
5. On 19th December, 1954 the Committee of Ministers signed two more Conventions: the European Cultural Convention and the Convention relating to the International Classification of Patents for Invention. This brings to eight the number of European Conventions concluded in the framework of the Council of Europe. Document 332 of 10th February, 1955 informed the Assembly of various other decisions taken by the Committee of Ministers at that time. In addition, committees of governmental experts have prepared two draft conventions on Extradition and on the Reciprocal Treatment of Nationals. The Social Committee has also been created, and its work is summarised in Section I, Chapter 2, paragraph (b) below.
6. As in previous years, Section I of this Report deals with steps taken by the Committee of Ministers to achieve the aims of the Council of Europe in the various fields of its competence. Section II deals with the machinery of the Council and its methods of work. Section III reviews relations with other international organisations, both international and supranational.
7. The Committee of Ministers has examined Recommendation 61 (1954) on the Special Report of the O. E. E. C. with regard to the Strasbourg Plan. The question has been included on the Agenda of the Joint Committee for its meeting on 4th July, 1955.
8. The Committee of Ministers has transmitted to the United Nations Opinion No. 10, adopted by the Consultative Assembly on 23rd September, 1954, on the Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Restrictive Business Practices set up by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. The comments of the German Federal Government on this Report were transmitted to the United Nations at the same time.
9. The Committee of Ministers is considering a suggestion that the problem of restrictive business practices should be discussed again in the Council of Europe in the near future.
10. The Committee of Ministers has examined Recommendation 62 (1954) of the Assembly on the present position as regards convertibility. It approved the proposals contained in paragraphs 1 and 2 and forwarded them to Member Governments, but did not agree with paragraph 3 of the Recommendation, for it felt that the problem of the integration of the Council of Europe and O. E. E. C. did not depend on the achievement of convertibility.
11. The Assembly's Recommendations 63 (1954) and 64 (1954) are still on the Agenda of the Committee of Ministers, whose reply will be transmitted to the Assembly in due course.
12. Having examined paragraph 19 of Opinion No. 12 of the Assembly, the Committee of Ministers adopted Resolution (54) 19 as follows :
" The Committee of Ministers,
Considering that the Council of Europe should associate itself with the efforts at present being made for the control of epizootics and protection of plants, in particular by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, the international Office of Epizootics and the European Plant Protection Organisation;
Having regard to the opinion expressed by the Consultative Assembly in paragraph 19 of its Opinion No. 12 of 24th September, 1954,
Resolves :
13. This Resolution was transmitted for information to F. A. O. and the European Plant Protection Organisation.
14. The Danish, Irish and Netherlands Governments have since informed the Secretary-General that they have ratified the Statute of the European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease.
15. F. A. O. has confirmed the establishment of this Commission, stating that its members are Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom and Yugoslavia.
16. Contact has been established with the European Plant Protection Organisation with a view to examining what further steps are necessary for the co-ordination of regulations relating to the import of plants.
17. The Committee of Experts on Public Health held its second session from 15th to 18th February, 1955. It was attended by observers from Austria and Switzerland and by representatives of the W. H. O. and the Brussels Treaty Organisation.
18. At this second meeting a decisive step was made towards fruitful collaboration between member countries of the Council of Europe in the field of public health.
19. The governmental experts examined a number of problems of great interest, including :
the establishment of direct contacts between the national health authorities of member countries, in accordance with the system already adopted by the Brussels Treaty Organisation and the Scandinavian countries;
the implementation of a programme for the exchange of health service personnel and certain measures for the co-ordination of medical research ;
the removal of customs obstacles to the transport of therapeutical substances of human origin and improvement of conditions for the import of essential prostheses into countries where they are lacking;
the preparation of a draft European Convention on the exchange of war —cripples for purposes of medical treatment, in accordance with the suggestions contained in Recommendation (54) 65. In this connection, the Committee of Experts heard a general statement by the expert appointed by the World Veterans' Federation.
20. Having expressed satisfaction at the proposals of the Committee of Experts, the Committee of Ministers has taken the necessary steps for their prompt implementation.
21. The first session of the Social Committee set up under the terms of Resolution (54) 17 of the Committee of Ministers was held at Strasbourg from 4th to 7th October 1954.
22. The Committee of Ministers, after making a preliminary examination of the conclusions of this first meeting, decided to invite O. E. E. C. to prepare for the Social Committee a report on the reduction of chancery dues payable by foreign workers; and a similar invitation was extended to the F. L. O. for a report on vocational training.
23. The Social Committee held its second session from 4th to 6th May, 1955. In accordance with a proposal then made the Committee of Ministers has requested the I. L. O. to prepare a report on the possibility of concluding a European Convention on the exchange of trainees.
24. The Social Committee has also taken up the following matters for immediate consideration :
European Social Charter. — The Committee decided to examine the extent to which economic and social rights are recognised by legislation and practice in the Member States. For this purpose a questionnaire, dealing with rights relating to employment and working conditions, has been drawn up.
Employment of older workers. — In conformity with paragraph 57 of the Special Message of 20th May, 1954 the Committee decided to extend to all Members of the Council of Europe the study of this question originally undertaken in the framework of the Brussels Treaty Organisation.
The Committee of Ministers is considering a suggestion that the scope of the work of the Social Committee should be extended.
25. The third session of the Social Committee will be held in November, 1955.
26. The Committee of Ministers did not feel able to accept the proposal made by the Assembly in its Opinion No. 12 to the effect that whenever the conclusions of the Social Committee were not in conformity with its own views they should be transmitted to the Assembly Committee on Social Questions before the Committee of Ministers took any decision on them.
27. The Committee of Ministers has always ensured that the committees of experts are kept informed of all recommendations, decisions or suggestions made by the Assembly in the experts' own particular field.
28. As was announced in the Supplementary Report to the Ministers' Fifth Report (Doc. 272, para. 20), the two Interim Agreements on Social Security and the Convention on Social and Medical Assistance, together with the Protocol to this Convention, came into force on 1st July, 1954.
29. On 1st October, 1954 the Protocols to the two interim Agreements on Social Security also came into force.
30. The situation with regard to ratification is as follows : Ireland, Norway, the United Kingdom and the Saar have deposited their instruments of ratification for the two Agreements, the Convention and all the Protocols. Denmark has ratified the two Interim Agreements, the Convention and its Protocol, but has not signed the Protocols to the Agreements. The Netherlands has ratified the two Interim Agreements and the Protocols thereto.
31. The Committee of Ministers duly called the attention of the Governments to the wish expressed by the Assembly in its Opinion No. 12 that those Governments which have not yet ratified these Agreements and the Convention should do so without delay.
32. The Committee of Ministers transmitted to the Committee of Experts on Public Health Recommendation 65 (1954) concerning the preparation, in conjunction with I. L. O., of a Convention on the exchange of war-cripples for the purposes of medical treatment.
33. Having heard during its second meeting a statement by the expert from the World Veterans' Federation, the Committee of Experts approved the general principles of this Recommendation.
34. While agreeing that the benefits contemplated might in future be extended to other kinds of invalids, the Committee of Experts considered that these exchanges should at first be confined to- war-cripples, both military and civilian. The Experts, attached special importance, moreover, to the organising of exchanges of medical personnel of all kinds and proposed that the Governments should facilitate the import of essential pharmaceutical goods and artificial limbs into countries where they are lacking.
35. The Committee of Ministers has instructed the Experts, whose third meeting will take place in July, to prepare a draft Convention based on the principles contained in the Assembly Recommendation.
36. The Committee of Ministers has studied the possibilities of implementing Recommendation 69 (1954) of the Consultative Assembly on the provision of assistance whenever natural disaster afflicts a member country of the Council of Europe.
37. With regard to paragraphs 1 and 4, the Committee of Ministers recalls that it transmitted to the Consultative Assembly an analytical table of specific measures taken by member countries to assist the victims of the Greek earthquake of 1.953 (Doc. AS/ASS (6) (1).
38. In its efforts to give effect to the suggestions embodied in paragraphs 2 and 3 of the Recommendation, the Committee of Ministers lias convened a Study Group composed of representatives of the International Committee of Lhe Red Cross, the League of Red Cross Societies, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, the World Health Organisation and a delegate from the United Nations Children's Fund, who also represented the United Nations.
39. This Group, meeting in the Council of Europe building in Strasbourg on 3rd and 4th December, 1.954, began by reviewing the work of the organisations specialising in the field of international assistance.
40. As a result it proposed that the Council of Europe should contemplate the following measures of automatic and immediate assistance in the event of natural disasters :
41. These proposals adopted by the Study Group reflect the views of the organisations taking part in the meeting, particularly the League of Red Cross Societies, which specially recommended the proposals mentioned in paras, (c) and (d) — namely, assistance in the form of public services (light emergency equipment) and the opening of an account in national budgets to cover Relief to victims of disasters in Europe.
42. The Committee of Ministers has examined these proposals and invited the Governments to send in their comments in writing.
43. So far comments have been received from the Governments of Belgium, Denmark, the German Federal Republic, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, the Saar, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
44. An analysis of these replies shows that the proposals most favourably received were those concerning assistance in the form of public services (light equipment) and the opening of a special account in national budgets ensuring in advance the existence of funds for providing the automatic assistance referred to in Assembly Recommendation 69.
45. A minority, however, were opposed to these two proposals of the Study Group, while a few Governments expressed reservations in principle concerning all its proposals.
46. With regard to the declaration of principle and the creation of a European Mutual Assistance Fund, only a minority expressed a favourable opinion. On the other hand certain Governments suggested that any assistance should be so organised as to cover victims in non-member countries.
47. Other proposals were lhat a small service should be set up in the Secretariat-General to maintain permanent contact on this subject with the Governments and the International Red Cross and that the possibility should be investigated of establishing machinery for co-ordinating all measures of assistance, whether already established or not. These proposals, however, were supported by only two Governments.
48. In conclusion, the Committee of Ministers noted the reply of the Greek Government which, while taking into account the activities of the competent organisations in this field and expressing its respect for " the touching spontaneity with which international relief measures have hitherto been carried out ", suggested that the action of the Council of Europe, as recommended in paragraphs 2 and 3 of Recommendation 69, adopted by the Consultative Assembly on 24th September, 1954, might be based on the following principles :
49. The Committee of Ministers will continue to study this problem, but thought that the Consultative Assembly would be interested to learn of the present state of progress of the studies undertaken.
50. M. Pierre Schneiter, appointed Special Representative of the Council of Europe for National Refugees and Over-population under the terms of Resolution (53) 35 of the Committee of Ministers, presented his Report to the Committee of Ministers in December, 1954.
51. The Committee thereupon adopted Resolution (54) 29; this was transmitted to the Assembly at the same time as the Report of the Special Representative, on 30th December, 1954, and reads as follows :
" The Committee of Ministers,
Having examined the final Report submitted by M. Pierre Schneiter, Special Representative of the Council of Europe for National Refugees and Over-population in Europe;
Congratulating M. Pierre Schneiter on his important contribution to the solution of this problem and thanking him for his unremitting efforts on behalf of national refugees and surplus elements of population;
Endorsing the opinion expressed in Resolution (51) 57 that the existence of the problem of refugees and over-population 'may be regarded as impeding the realisation of the aims set out in Article 1 of the Statute of the Council of Europe ', and reiterating the need for the ' adoption by the members of the European Community of a common attitude in regard to these pressing questions ', which are of fundamental importance to the security of Europe and its economic and political stability;
Being determined to continue to seek ways and means of helping the European countries affected by the problem of national refugees and over-population,
Resolves :
The Chairman of the Committee of Ministers subsequently approached M. Pierre Schneiter, in January, in order to find out his intentions with regard to the task entrusted to him by the Committee of Ministers now thai he had been elected President of the French National Assembly, and on 24lh January sent him a letter expressing the hope that he would continue his mission.
On 4th March, 1955 the Special Representative sent the Chairman the following reply :
" Monsieur le Président,
I warmly appreciate the contents of your letter of 24th January addressed to me both on your behalf and that of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, the terms of which I greatly value.
I wish also lu thank you for requesting me to pursue, my task as Special Representative of the Council of Europe for National Refugees and Over-Population. As 1 informed you when we met in Paris on 15th February, I hesitated for some time owing to my future commitments, and also because the President of the French National Assembly cannot accept to be under obligation to a gathering of foreign personalities, however distinguished these may be. Rut, since the relevant texts bear witness to the faot that no subordination is implied in the mission entrusted to mo, and the Committee of Ministers has, on the contrary, always wished to give mo full liberty to investigate and to make proposals, reserving for itself only the legitimate right to comply with them or not, as the case may be, I am happy to inform you that I accept the principle of pursuing this mission within tho terms of your last Resolution dated 19lh December, 1954.
Since, however, 1 shall no doubt be unable personally to carry out the practical application of the contents of my Report, I shall take the liberty to secure the assistance of a person in whom f have full confidence and who, when it is impossible for me to do so myself, will be instructed to maintain the necessary contacts with your own Committee or t lia I of your Deputies and with the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe. This person will be responsible only to myself, and his services will be unremunerated as in my own case.
I shoul d be obliged if you would inform your colleagues of the position I have adopted and sincerely hope that it corresponds with your own viewpoint.
I am, Monsieur le Président,
Your most obedient Servant,
Signed : Pierre SCHNEITER. "
52. The Chairman of the Committee of Ministers sent the Special Representative the following reply :
" Sir,
I have the honour to inform you that in the course of their 28th Meeting on 10th March, 1955 f communicated to the Ministers ' Deputies the contents of your letter of 4th March, 1955 to the Chairman of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.
The Ministers' Deputies noted with satisfaction your decision to pursue your mission renewed by the Committee of Ministers of 19th December, 1954 and asked me to convey to you their sincere gratitude, particularly as they are well aware of the new and heavy burdens recently placed on your shoulders. They also approved the views expressed in your letter as to the manner in which you intend to continue your work for the Council of Europe.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
Signed : N. HADJI VASSILIOU
for the Chairman of the Committee of Ministers. "
53. The Committee of Ministers has been informed of the intention of the Special Representative to submit to the Committee, during its Sixteenth Session, detailed proposals based on this Report, in pursuance of paragraph (b) of Resolution (54) 29.
54. Moreover, at the request of the Special Representative, the Committee of Senior Officials met in Paris on 15th and 16th June, 1955 for a preliminary consultation.
55. The Committee of Ministers will inform the Consultative Assembly of further developments relating to the problem of national refugees and over-population in its next supplementary report.
56. During the period under review the Committee of Cultural Experts met twice, from 20th to 23rd October, 1954, and from 27th to 30th April, 1955.
57. The Committee of Ministers examined the Report drawn up by the Committee of Cultural Experts at its ninth Session in October, 1954 and approved the proposals made in it. Details of these proposals arc given below.
58. In conformity with the wish expressed in Opinion No, 12 of the Assembly the Cultural Budget of the Council of Europe has been increased from 16,500,000 francs to 19,000,000 francs.
59. The Selection Committee to award fellowships in 1955 will meet at Strasbourg on 7tb July and be composed of M. Lange, Norwegian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Downs, Master of Christ's College and Vice-Chancellor Elect of the University of Cambridge, M. Rüstow, Professor at the University of Heidelberg and M. Margue, member of the Committee on Cultural and Scientific Questions of the Assembly. Mr. Morrison, a member of the Committee of Cultural Experts, will be the Rapporteur of the Selection Committee.
60. The Council of Europe will grant up to sixteen fellowships this year and E. C. S. C. up to four.
61. The Committee of Ministers welcomed the recommendations of the Cultural Experts for the organisation of a third course of study at Rome in 1955 under the auspices of the Italian Government. The report on the Oslo course which was held in August, 1954 will be brought to the attention of Member Governments.
62. A course will be organised at Saarbrucken in 1955 under the auspices of the Saar Government.
63. The Committee of Ministers has agreed to the request of the Assembly that some of its members should take part in future courses of European studies. The President of the Assembly was informed of this decision in a letter from the Secretary-General of 6th November, 1954.
64. The first of a series of European exhibitions under the patronage of the Council of Europe opened at the Palais des Beaux-Arts at Brussels on 16th December, 1954 and continued until the end of February, 1955. Its subject was " European Humanism ".
65. The second exhibition will be held at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam from 1st July to 2nd October, 1955 on the subject of " the Triumph of European Mannerism from Michael Angelo to El Greco ".
66. A study group has been set up to prepare a publication based on the work of the Rome Round Table, under the chairmanship of M. Denis de Rougemont, Director of the European Cultural Centre of Geneva, with Mr. Max Beloff, Reader in Comparative Institutions at Oxford University, as Rapporteur- General. The Rapporteurs are : M. Doucy, Secretary-General of the Solvay Institute of Sociology at Brussels, for social questions; M. Valsecchi, Professor of History at the University of Milan for European institutions and history; Mr. Sean O'Faolain, author and publicist, on the subject of European civilisation and M. Strugger, Director of the Botanical Institute at the University of Munster, for scientific questions. The Rapporteur for economic questions has not yet been appointed.
67. A system of university interchange schemes described by the United Kingdom delegation will be brought to the notice of Member Governments with a view to the organisation of a similar system on a European scale.
68. A working party will be meeting at Dublin next September to examine the technical aspects of this project.
69. The Committee of Ministers will examine the draft Handbook on European Organisations, prepared at the request of the Cultural Experts, with a view to its publication in the near future.
70. The Committee of Ministers forwarded Recommendation 60 (1954) of the Assembly to the Committee of Cultural Experts, with instructions to examine the possibility of establishing this Fund by means of a partial agreement (Doc. 272, para. 41).
71. In a letter to the President of the Consultative Assembly of 22nd April, 1955, the Chairman of the Committee of Ministers has explained the reasons why the Committee, after receiving the views of the Committee of Experts, felt that this fund was not at present a feasible proposition.
72. This Convention, which was signed at Paris on 11th December, 1953, entered into force on 20th April, 1954. It has so far been ratified by Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, the German Federal Republic, Iceland, Luxembourg, Norway, the United Kingdom and the Saar.
73. The European Cultural Convention, on which the Assembly gave its views in Opinion No. 11, was signed at Paris on 19th December, 1954. It entered into force on 5th May, 1955, having been ratified by Ireland, France and the United Kingdom. It was subsequently ratified by Denmark and Belgium respectively on 7th and 11th May.
74. The Belgian Government deposited with the Secretary-General on 14th June, 1955 its instruments of ratification of the European Convention on Human Rights and the Protocol thereto. Thirteen Members of the Council have now ratified the Convention, while the Protocol has been ratified by twelve.
75. The second plenary session of the European Commission of Human Rights was held f rom 28th March to 2nd April, 1955 at Strasbourg. It drafted and adopted its Rules of Procedure, based on a draft prepared by a Working Party of five of its members at a meeting from 20th to 25th September, 1954.
76. By Resolution (54) 30 of 19th December, 1954 (Doc. 332), the Committee of Ministers elected a successor to Madame Ingeborg Hansen, a member of the Commission who died on 5th August, 1954. The list of candidates was drawn up by the Bureau of the Assembly from names put forward by the Danish Representatives, in accordance with Article 21 of the Convention. The Committee of Ministers appointed M. Max Sôrensen, Professor at the University of Aarhus, for the remainder of the term of office of his predecessor.
77. On 14th March, 1955 the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe received from the Danish Foreign Minister a letter, dated 12th March, transmitting to him two declarations by the Danish Government. By these declarations the Danish Government accepted for a further period of two years, as from 7th April, 1955, the validity of :
the Danish declaration of 7th April, 1953 recognising for a period of two years the competence of the European Commission of Human Rights to receive petitions of the nature referred to in Article 25 of the Convention;
the Danish declaration of 7th April, 1953, recognising for a period of two years the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights, in accordance with Article 46 of the Convention.
78. Furthermore, on 29th March, 1955, M. H. Jonasson deposited with the Secretary-General on behalf of the Government of Iceland a declaration recognising for a period of five years as from 25th March, 1955, the competence of the European Commission of Human Rights to receive petitions of the nature referred to in Article 25 of the Convention.
79. As a result of these declarations, four of the Contracting Parties (Denmark, Iceland, Ireland and Sweden) have noAV accepted this particular competence of the Commission, and three (Denmark, Ireland and the Netherlands) have recognised the compulsory jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights.
80. The Committee of Ministers has taken note of Resolution 58 (1954) of the Consultative Assembly on the competence of the Commission of Human Rights to hear individual petitions, and will examine this Resolution at one of its forthcoming meetings.
81. The detailed opinion of the Committee of Ministers and its Resolution (55) 8 relating to Assembly Recommendations 51 (1953) and 59 (1954) were brought to the Assembly's notice by a letter from the Chairman of the Committee of Ministers to the President of the Assembly dated 17th May, 1955 (Doc. 346).
82. The Committee of Ministers, after examining Recommendation 56 (1953), has submitted to the President of the Assembly two designs for an emblem which it considers acceptable.
83. After examining paragraph 35 of Opinion No. 12 of the Assembly, the Committee of Ministers adopted Resolution (54) 23, which was transmitted to the Assembly by the Secretary- General on 13th January, 1955. By this Resolution, the Committee of Ministers invited Member Governments which had not already done so to accede to the International Commission on Civil Status.
84. The Committee of Experts instructed to prepare a draft Convention has now completed its work.
85. The joint meeting between the competent sub-Committee of the Assembly and the sub-Committee of Experts, referred to in the Supplementary Report to the Fifth Report (Doc. 272, para. 59), was held on 10th-11th September, 1954. This meeting afforded a useful opportunity for discussion of points on which the Experts had failed to reach unanimous agreement, and for the Assembly Representatives to suggest amendments to the texts drafted by the Experts.
86. At its seventh session (24th-29th January, 1955), the Committee of Experts reexamined all the questions held in abeyance and agreed upon the text of a draft Convention and Protocol, which is now under examination by the Committee of Ministers.
87. After a first examination of Assembly Recommendation 66 (1954) on the conclusion of a European convention on extradition, the Committee of Ministers instructed the Committee of Experts on Extradition, by Resolution (54) 24, to study this Recommendation with a view to drafting :
88. The Committee of Ministers approved the Assembly's suggestion for an exchange of views on the conclusions of the Committee of Experts between members of this Committee and the competent sub-Committee of the Assembly Committee on Legal and Administrative Questions.
89. In accordance with their instructions, the Experts prepared at their meeting of 31st January-9th February, 1955 preliminary drafts of a model bilateral convention and a multilateral convention on extradition.
90. This Convention, which was signed in Paris on 11 the December, 1953, entered into force on 1st June, 1955 after being ratified by Ireland, Norway, the Saar and the United Kingdom. The German Federal Republic and ' Greece also ratified it, on 17th May and 15th Juno, 1955 respectively.
91. The final amendments to the wording of the draft prepared by the Experts having been unanimously approved, the Convention was signed at Paris on 19th December, 1954.
92. The Governments of Iceland and Luxembourg did not sign the Convention as they are not in a position to adopt the system of classification stipulated. The Convention was ratified by Ireland and Norway on 11th March, 1955 and by Belgium on 16th May, but will not enter into force until ratified by at least four of the signatories.
93. The Committee of Ministers will reconsider this question when it has received the opinion of the Assembly on the draft Convention.
94. The Committee of Ministers accepted Recommendation 68 (1954) of the Assembly and adopted the following Resolution (54) 20 :
" The Committee of Ministers,
Having regard to the problem created in post-war years by :
Having noted the work of the International Conference on Pollution of the Sea by Oil, held in London from 26th April to 12th May, 1954 :
Approving the aims of the eight Resolutions adopted by that Conference and the Final Act issued at the conclusion of its proceedings,
Resolves to urge those Member Governments of the Council of Europe which have not yet signed the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution of the Sea by Oil, signed in London on 12th May, 1954, or have only done so subject to ratification or acceptance, to effect such acceptance and, pending the coming into operation of the Convention, to take the immediate steps set forth in Resolution No. 6 appended to the Final Act of the Conference; and
Instructs the Secretary-General to transmit the present Resolution to the member countries concerned, with a request that they inform him of any action they are prepared to take thereon. "
95. The Committee of Ministers has expressed the wish that Member States which have not yet ratified the General Agreement and Protocol should do so as soon as possible.
96. This film has now been completed. The Committee of Ministers has authorised the producer to insert in the credit titles of the film the words :
" Under the patronage of the Council of Europe, with the assistance of the Secretariat of the Council and the cultural authorities of the Member States : Belgium, Denmark, France, German Federal Republic, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, the Saar, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom ".
97. In its Fifth Report (Doc. 237, paragraphs 58-60), the Committee of Ministers described arrangements made for the publication, under the auspices of the Council of Europe, of a European Yearbook devoted to the scientific study of the European international organisations, including their constitutions, their functions and their work. The choice of subject- matter was vested in an editorial board composed of Professor Codacci Pisanelli (Professor at the University of Rome and Representative to the Consultative Assembly), Dr. 13. Landheer (Director of the Peace Palace Library, the Hague), Lord Layton (Vice-President of the Consultative Assembly), Professor Max Sorcnsen (Professor at the University of Aarhus and member of the European Commission of Human Rights) and the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe. The Year book is being published by Martinus Nijholf at the Hague.
98. The first volume appeared in March, 1955. It has a documentary section containing basic legal texts, a chronology of outstanding events and further information on the following organisations : the Brussels Treaty Organisation, the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, the Council of Europe, the European Coal and Steel Community, the Northern Council, the European Conference of Ministers of Transport, the European Council for Nuclear Research and the European Conference on the Organisation of Agricultural Markets.
99. Ten articles have been included by highly qualified authors on the various aspects of European problems and organisations.
100. The Yearbook also includes a bibliography containing summaries of some 50 works and a classified list of about 250 articles on European problems.
101. Resolution (54) 11 of the Committee of Ministers on the use of television was brought to the notice of the Assembly in the Supplementary Report to the Fifth Report (Doc. 272, para 63).
102. The European Broadcasting Union has asked the Committee of Ministers to recommend that Member Governments should take steps to introduce reasonable charges for the relaying of television programmes.
103. The Committee of Ministers has accordingly decided to remind Member Governments of the first part of paragraph (b) of Resolution (54) 11 which runs as follows : " ...to transmit to Governments, with a request that henceforward they be guided thereby, the suggestions put forward by the Consultative Assembly for the permanent organisation of international relays and for the reduction of their cost."
104. The Committee of Ministers has instructed the Working Party appointed by the Committee of Cultural Experts in accordance with paragraph (e) of this Resolution to examine the problem of charges for the relaying of television programmes. This Working Party held its first meeting in Paris on June 14th and 15th, 1955.
105. In response to the wish expressed by the Assembly in its Reply to the Supplementary Report to the Committee of Ministers, the Committee has adopted the following declaration :
" The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has noted with interest the concern of the Consultative Assembly with the contribution which local authorities can make to the development of a European consciousness. The Committee of Ministers believes that the local authorities, being placed in close contact with the population, are in an advantageous position to inform and enlighten public opinion in the member countries of the Council of Europe.
Numerous manifestations organised by local or regional authorities have come to the notice of the Committee of Ministers, taking such various forms as the " pairing " of towns, " Europe days ", meetings between municipalities, exhibitions, lectures, educational visits, institutes for European studies, etc. All these activities serve to foster appreciation of the principles laid down in the Preamble and Article 1 of the Statute of the Council of Europe, and of its general aim to achieve greater unity between its members.
The Committee of Ministers does not pretend to suggest specific forms of activity to be organised by local authorities. The nature and extent of such activities will be determined by the statutory powers of local authorities in particular countries, and will depend also on the means at their disposal. The Committee of Ministers will, in general, view with favour any form of local or regional activity designed to develop a mutual understanding and sense of solidarity among the peoples of Europe."
106. In fulfilment of the request put forward by the Assembly in its Reply to the Fifth Report, the Committee of Ministers has decided to set aside in the Budget for 1955 the sum of 250,000 francs for the establishment of a " European Prize " which will bo awarded annually by the Special Committee on Municipal and Regional Affairs.
107. The Committee of Ministers, after giving careful attention to the Assembly's views, docs not feel able to modify its position. In the Committee of Ministers' view, the best machinery for co-ordinating the activities of European municipalities in support of the European idea already exists in the Council of European Municipalities and the International Union of Local Authorities. The effective operation of these two bodies has in the past been impaired by the lack of harmonious relations between them. This disharmony is well-known to the National Associations of Local Authorities, and it is one of the principal reasons why a number of them have not joined either of the international organisations or take only a very small part in their activities. It seems to the Committee of Ministers that the Assembly Committee on Municipal and Regional Affairs is in the best possible position to bring about a rapprochement, since both international bodies already attend its meetings as observers, and the most fruitful course for the Assembly Committee would be to work towards this end. It seems to the Committee of Ministers that this would offer a better chance of success than to set up a third consultative body which national municipal organisations could join direct, which would merely run the risk of bringing a third division to a field of activity already split by the lack of agreement between the Council of European Municipalities and the International Union of Local Authorities.
108. Having considered Resolution 47 (1954) and 59 (1954) of the Assembly, the Committee of Ministers adopted Resolution (54) 27, whereby it associated itself with the Assembly in re-affirming its faith in the unity of Europe and recorded its identity of views in respect of the feeling of solidarity and fellowship by which Representatives to the Consultative Assembly were inspired. This question, incidentally, appears on the Agenda of the next meeting of the Joint Committee.
109. The Committee of Ministers has noted with pleasure the Assembly's decision to authorise its committees to hear the Chairman of the Deputies, or any other Deputy, on specific points under consideration : the Committee has, in the same way, authorised the Deputies to hear the Chairman and Rapporteur of any Assembly committee. The Committee considers that it must be left to the Assembly committee concerned, or the Deputies as the case may be, to decide whether or not to give a hearing on any particular occasion on which it is requested
110. The Committee of Ministers has considered the Assembly's proposal that Committees of Experts should be authorised, at their own discretion, to hear the Chairman and Rapporteur of corresponding Assembly committees, but has not felt able to agree. The Committee recalls that arrangements already exist, whereby, with the consent of the Committee of Ministers or the Deputies in each case, meetings take place between delegations from Assembly committees, on the one hand, and Committees of Experts, on the other. Such meetings are, with the full approval of the Committee of Ministers, increasing in frequency. The Committee is not, however, willing to drop the requirement for prior consent in each case, which is designed to ensure that meetings arc arranged only when they arc likely to prove useful.
111. The Committee considers that, as a general rule, the arrangements referred to above constitute the maximum of useful personal contacts between Assembly Representatives and Governmental Experts. Cultural affairs, however, appear to constitute a special field calling for exceptional treatment. The need for constant contact is greater, while the subjects are less likely to raise political issues outside the Experts' competence. The Committee therefore agrees to the establishment of a standing joint committee, comprising Assembly Representatives and Experts, and is considering its precise constitution.
112. The Committee of Ministers has noted with pleasure the Assembly's decision to communicate documents of its committees to the Committee of Ministers. In the same spirit of co-operation the Committee has cancelled paragraph 1 of Resolution (52) 3 and authorised Committees of Experts, when they unanimously agree to do so, to transmit any of their documents to the corresponding Assembly committee.
113. On 1st November, 1954 the Government of the German Federal Republic appointed Mr. K. Carstens as its Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe, resident in Strasbourg.
114. Mr. P. W. Scarlett, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom Government, has been appointed Ii. M. Ambassador to Oslo; he was replaced by Mr. Gerald Meade on 26th February, 1955.
115. Mr. A. H. Lincoln, Deputy Secretary-General, tendered his resignation on 23rd March, 1955. The procedure for appointing a successor to his post was immediately set in motion. In accordance with the Assembly's Recommendation 49 (1953), the matter has been included on the Agenda of the Joint Committee for its meeting on 4th July, 1955.
116. In its Reply to the Supplementary Report to the Fifth Report of the Committee of Ministers, the Assembly suggested that the order of priority of relevant considerations for appointing staff of the Secretariat-General should be as follows :
117. The Committee of Ministers noted that this order of priority closely followed its own line of thought, as expressed in paragraph 3 of Resolution (53) 33.
118. The Committee of Ministers duly agreed to the request made by the President of the Assembly in his letter of 25th September, 1954.
119. The first ad hoc joint meeting between four members of the Assembly Committee and four members of the Committee of Cultural Experts took place on 21st October, 1954, and the second on 2nd February, 1955. The representatives of the Committee of Cultural Experts also took part in the special meeting of 4th-6th April, 1955 organised by the Assembly Committee on Cultural and Scientific Questions.
120. A decision concerning the creation of a standing joint committee on cultural questions is contained in paragraph (a) above.
121. The Committee of Ministers on 12th March, 1955 instructed the Secretary-General to transmit the following letter to the President of the Consultative Assembly :
" Sir ,
The Committee of Ministers was not in a position to comply witli the wish expressed by the Consultative Assembly in paragraph 1 of its Resolution 50 on the appointment of a Committee on Budgetary Questions and Administration, adopted in September, 1954.
Apart from any other considerations, were it to he made feasible to consult the Assembly on the draft Budget of the Council of Europe as a whole, this draft Budget would have to be prepared by the Secretariat-General in the first months of the year, namely, at a time when it is still impossible to make accurate estimates for the following year.
However, the Committee of Ministers agreed that the Assembly should be given the opportunity of expressing its opinion on the Budget of the Council and therefore instructed the Secretary- General to transmit to the Assembly documentation comprising the final audited accounts for the previous Financial Year and the Budget for the current Financial Year. Such documentation will, in fact, provide adequate material for the Assembly to prepare an opinion as to what credits might be included in the Budget for the following year. The Committee of Ministers will make a point of examining such opinions in due time.
It is agreed that Resolution (53) 38, by virtue of which the draft text of Vote II of the Budget for the coming year is submitted to the Assembly, will remain operative and, should the Assembly so desire, the Committee of Ministers would still be prepared to hold an exchange of views on this question at the next meeting of the Joint Committee.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
Signed : L. MARCHAL. "
122. The Committee of Ministers understands that the Bureau of the Assembly considers that these proposals constitute an acceptable solution of the problem raised in Resolution 50 (1954).
123. Austria and Switzerland have accepted invitations to be represented by observers at the following Committee meetings : Austria — Committee of Cultural Experts, Committee of Experts on Public Health, Social Committee, Committee of Experts on Patents, Committee of Experts on Extradition and Committee of Experts on the Reciprocal Treatment of Nationals; Switzerland — Committee of Experts on Patents and Committee of Experts on Public Health.
124. By way of action taken in the sense of Resolution 57 (1954), the Committee of Ministers would instance the Conference on the Co-ordination of Air Transport in Europe, convened by I. C. A. O. at its invitation, which met in the House of Europe at Strasbourg from 21st April to 8th May, 1955. The Conference was attended by the following countries which are not members of the Council of Europe : Austria, Spain, Finland, Portugal and Switzerland.
125. Whenever circumstances permit, the Committee of Ministers will explore every possibility of extending the present arrangements mentioned in para. 1 of Resolution 57 (1954) of the Consultative Assembly to associate non-member countries with the work of expert committees.
126. A plan for the reorganisation of the services of the Secretariat-General was submitted to the Governments on 3rd November, 1954. It was examined by the Minister's Deputies at their twenty-eighth, thirtieth and thirty-first meetings. In accordance with the normal procedure, the Budget Committee will be called on for its opinion on the budgetary aspects of the reorganisation plan in connection with the preparation of the Budget for 1956.
127. 1954
14th-24th September
Fourth Course of European Studies (Strasbourg)
20th-25th September
Working Party of the European Commission of Human Rights (Strasbourg).
27th-28th September
Twenty-fourth Meeting of the Ministers' Deputies (Strasbourg).
4th-7th October
Social Committee (Strasbourg).
5th-7th October
Budget Committee (Strasbourg).
19th-22nd October
Twenty-fifth meeting of the Minister's Deputies (Strasbourg).
19th October
Sub-Committee on the Council of Europe Cultural Card (Strasbourg).
19th-22nd October
Bureau of the Committee of Experts on the Classification of Patents (Berne).
20tb-23rd October
Committee of Cultural Experts (Strasbourg).
21st October
Ad hoc joint meeting of representatives of the Committee of Cultural Experts and the Assembly Committee on Cultural and Scientific Questions (Strasbourg).
22nd October
Working Party of Permanent Representatives to the Council on the Simplification of Frontier Formalities (Strasbourg).
4th November
Working Party of Permanent Representatives to the Council of Europe on the Simplification of Frontier Formalities (Strasbourg).
12th November
Ad hoc Committee for the Emblem of the Council of Europe (Strasbourg).
3rd-4tb December
Study Group to consider the problem of automatic assistance in cases of natural disaster suffered by a member country of the Council of Europe (Strasbourg).
14th-16tb December Twenty-sixth Meeting of the Ministers' Deputies (Paris).
19th December
Fifteenth Session of the Committee of Ministers (Paris).
1955
10th-12th January
Twenty-seventh Meeting of the Ministers' Deputies (Strasbourg).
10th-11th January
Joint meeting between UNESCO and the Council of Europe for the study of matters of common interest in the cultural field (Paris).
15th January
Joint meeting of the Committee of Ministers and the High Authority of E. C. S. C. (Paris).
24th-29th January
Committee of Experts on the Reciprocal Treatment of Nationals (Strasbourg).
31st January-1st February
Bureau of the Committee of Cultural Experts (Strasbourg).
31st January-9th February
Committee of Experts on Extradition (Strasbourg).
2nd February
Joint Meeting of the Bureau of the Committee of Cultural Experts and members of the Committee on Cultural and Scientific Questions of the Assembly (Strasbourg).
11th February
Liaison Committees O. E. E. C./C. E. (Paris).
14th February
Study Group to follow up the work of the Rome Round Table (Strasbourg).
15th-18th February
Committee of Experts on Public Health (Strasbourg).
16th-18th February
Budget Committee (Strasbourg).
8th-12th March
Twenty-eight Meeting of the Ministers' Deputies (Strasbourg).
28th March-2nd April
European Commission of Human Rights (Strasbourg).
1st April
Liaison committees O. E. E. C./C. E. (Strasbourg).
19th-22nd April
Twenty-ninth Meeting of the Ministers' Deputies (Strasbourg).
20 th April
Study Group for the continuation of the work of the Rome Round Table (Strasbourg).
25th-26th April
Bureau of the Committee of Cultural Experts (Strasbourg).
26 th April Sub-committee on the Cultural Identity Card (Strasbourg).
26th April
Sub-committee for Youth (Strasbourg).
27th-30th April
Committee of Cultural Experts (Strasbourg).
4th-6th May
Second Session of the Social Committee (Strasbourg).
17th-21st May
Thirtieth Meeting of the Ministers' Deputies (Strasbourg).
14th- 15th June
Working Group on Television (Paris).
15th-16th June
Committee of Senior Officials for Refugees and Over-population (Paris).
15th-20th June
Thirty-first Meeting of the Ministers' Deputies (Strasbourg).
128. In October, 1954 the Committee of Ministers sent its reply to the Second General Report of the High Authority of E. C. S. C. At the same time the Committee transmitted the opinion of the Consultative Assembly on this Report.
129. In this reply certain Governments which are not Members of the E. C. S. C. raised à number of questions connected with the Second General Report. These questions were examined during a joint meeting between the High Authority and the Committee of Ministers at Paris on 15th January, 1955. This meeting demonstrated the value of direct contacts between the two organs, and it is intended to hold similar meetings in the future.
130. The reply of the Committee of Ministers to the Second Report of the High Authority is reproduced in an Appendix. This document also indicates the principal questions which were discussed during the Joint Meeting in January, 1955.
131. During a special session between the Council of Europe/O. E. E. C. Liaison Committees, held at Strasbourg on 13th September, 1954, the members of the Assembly Committee on Economic Questions and the O. E. E. C. experts discussed convertibility and East/West trade.
132. Having examined Assembly Recommendation G7 (1954) the Committee of Ministers requested the two Liaison Committees to considers the relations to be established between the Council of Europe and the Committee of Ministers of Agriculture. This question was also discussed at the meeting of the Liaison Committees in February 1955. The Assembly will be notified, in due course, of the conclusion reached by the two organisations on this subject.
133. Another special session of the Liaison Committees was held at Strasbourg on 1st April, 1955. It was devoted to a discussion between members of the Committee on Economic Questions and experts from O. E. E. C. on the Sixth Annual Report of the Organisation.
134. In accordance with the arrangements made by the Committee of Ministers and reported to the Assembly in the Committee's Fifth Report of May, 1954 (Doc. 237, para. 85) the first report on the work of the European Conference of Ministers of Transport has been received and communicated to the Assembly.
135. The Committee of Ministers discussed at its Fifteenth Session Resolution 67 (1954) on the organisation of the W. E. U. Assembly and the links to be established between AV. E. U. and the Council of Europe. At the request of the President of the Assembly, this question has been placed on the Agenda of the Joint Committee for its meeting on 4th July, 1955.
136. The statement of principle concerning relations with other international organisations adopted by the Committee of Ministers in May, 1954 and transmitted to the Assembly in the Special Message (Doc. 238, paras. 16 to 20) has been drawn to the attention of the Governing Body of the I. L. O., which has approved its general tenor.
137. The first European Regional Conference of the I. L. O. was held in Geneva from January 24th to February 5th, 1955. The Committee of Ministers attached great interest to this Conference, to the maintenance of close co-operation between the Council of Europe and I. L. O. and to the co-ordination of their activities in the social field. The Council was represented by the Secretary-General, who made a statement in which he communicated to the Conference a message from the Committee of Ministers to this effect.
138. The Supplementary Report of September, 1954 informed the Assembly that the Secretary-General had been authorised to undertake negotiations with F. A. O. for the conclusion of an agreement for collaboration between the two organisations (Doc. 272, para. 93). A draft prepared by the two secretariats has now been approved by the Committee of Ministers, which has submitted it to the Assembly for an opinion (Doc. 337).
139. UNESCO continues to collaborate actively in the cultural programme of the Council of Europe. The first of a series of inter-secretariat meetings to discuss questions of common interest has already been held and UNESCO was represented by a strong delegation at the Special Meeting of the Assembly's Committee on Cultural and Scientific Questions held in April, 1955.
140. The Committee of Ministers has informed I. C. A. O. of the continuing interest of the Council in the question of European Air Transport and has been kept informed about the action taken by. I. C. A. O. as a result of the proposals made by the Conference on the Co-ordination of Air Transport in Europe held in Strasbourg in April and May, 1954.
141. On the basis of the proposals contained in Assembly Recommendation 70 (1954) the Committee of Ministers, under the terms of its Resolution (54) 21, granted consultative status in category A to the following organisations :
European Centre for Demographic Studies.
European Confederation of Agriculture.
Council of European Municipalities.
International Federation of Agricultural Producers.
International Union of Local Authorities.
and in category B to the following organisations:
World Veterans Federation.
Free International Federation of Deportees and Internees of the Resistance.
142. The President of the Assembly was informed of this Resolution in a letter from the Secretary-General dated 4th November, 1954.
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HUMAN RIGHTS AND FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOM DROITS DE L'HOMME ET LIBERTÉS FONDAMENTALES |
SOCIAL SECURITY SÉCURITÉ SOCIALE |
SOCIAL AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE ASSISTANCE SOCIALE ET MÉDICALE |
PATENTS BREVETS |
CULTURAL QUESTIONS QUESTIONS CULTURELLES |
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II |
III |
IV |
V |
VI |
VII |
VIII |
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Clauses relatives aux |
Schemes relating to oldage, invalidity and survivors Régimes relatifs à la vieillesse, à l'invalidité et aux survivants |
Other schemes Régimes autres que ceux relatifs à la vieillesse, à l'invalidité et aux survivants |
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Convention Convention |
Protocol Protocole |
Overseas territories Territoires d'Outre-Mer |
Right of individual petition Droit de recours individuel |
Juridiction of the Court Juridiction de la Cour |
Interim Agreement Accord intérimaire |
Additional Protocol Protocole additionnel |
Interim Agreement Accord intérimaire |
Additional Protocol Protocole additionnel |
Convention Convention |
Additional Protocol Protocole additionnel |
Convention relating to the formalities required for Patents applications Convention relative aux formalités prescrites pour les demandes de brevets |
Convention relating to the international classification of patents Convention sur la classification internationale des brevets |
Convention on the equivalence of Diplomas leading to admission to Universities Convention relative à l'équivalence des diplômes donnant accès aux établ. universitaires |
Cultural convention Convention culturelle |
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Date and place of signature |
Rome 4.XI.1950 |
Paris 20.111.1952 |
Rome 4.XI.1950 |
Rome 4.XI.1950 |
Rome 4.XI.1950 |
Paris 11.XII.1953. |
Paris 11.XII.1953 |
Paris 11.XII.1953 |
Paris 11.XII.1953 |
Paris 11.XII.1953 |
Paris 11.XII.1953 |
Paris 11.XII.1953 |
Paris 19.XII.1954 |
Paris 11.XII.1953 |
Paris 19.XII.1954 |
Date et lieu de la signature |
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Conditions of entry in force |
10 Ratifications |
10 Ratifications |
Notifications Déclaration |
6 declarations 6 acceptations |
8 declarations 8 acceptations |
2 Ratifications |
2 Ratifications |
2 Ratifications |
2 Ratifications |
2 Ratifications |
2 Ratifications |
4 Ratifications |
4 Ratifications |
3 Ratifications |
3 Ratifications |
Conditions d'entrée en vigueur |
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Date of entry into force |
3.IX.1953 |
18.V.1954 |
30 days after notification 30 jours après la déclaration |
1.VII.1954 |
1.X.1954 |
1.VII.1954 |
1.X.1954 |
1.VII.1954 |
1.VII.1954 |
1.VI.1955 |
20.IV.1954 |
5.V.1955 |
Date d'entrée en vigueur |
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Belgium |
14.VI.1955 |
14.VI.1955 |
16.V.1955 |
14.VI.1955 |
11.V.1955 |
Belgique |
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Denmark |
13.IV.1953 |
13.IV.1953 |
– |
Yes – extended for 2 years as from 7.IV.1955 Oui - prorogé pour 2 ans à partir du 7.IV.1955 |
30.VI.1954 |
non signé |
30.VI.1954 |
Not signed non signé |
30.VI.1954 |
30.VI.1954 |
20.IV.1954 |
7.V.1955 |
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France |
11. III.1955 |
19. III.1955 |
France |
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German Fed. Rep. |
5.XII.1952 |
– |
17.V.1955 |
3.III.1955 |
République Fédér. d'Allemagne |
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Greece |
28.III.1953 |
28.III.1953 |
– |
I5.VI.1955 |
Grèce |
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Iceland |
29.VI.1953 |
29.VI.1953 |
– |
Yes – for 5 years – 25.III.1955 oui - pour 5 ans - 25.III.1955 |
Not signed non signé |
5.VIII.1954 |
Islande |
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Ireland |
25.II.1953 |
25.II.1953 |
– |
Yes - oui - 25.II.1953 |
31.III.1954 |
31.III.1954 |
31.III.1954 |
31.III.1954 |
31.III.1954 |
31.III.1954 |
17.VI.1954 |
11.III.1955 |
31.III 1954 |
11.III.1955 |
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Italy |
– |
Italie |
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Luxembourg |
3.IX.1953 |
3.IX.1953 |
– |
Not signed non signé |
12.1.1955 |
Luxembourg |
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Netherlands |
31.VIII.1954 |
31.VIII.1954 |
31.VIII.1954 (for 5 years) (pour 5 ans) |
11.III.1955 |
11.III.1955 |
11.III.1955 |
11.III.1955 |
Pays-Bas |
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Norway |
15.I.1952 |
18.XII.1952 |
– |
9.IX.1954 |
9.IX.1954 |
9.IX.1954 |
9.IX.1954 |
9.IX.1954 |
9.IX.1954 |
21.V.1954 |
11.III.1955 |
21.V.1954 |
Norvège |
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Saar |
14.I.1953 |
14.I.1953 |
– |
8.IX.1954 |
8.IX.1954 |
8.IX.1954 |
8.IX.1954 |
8.IX.1954 |
8.IX.1954 |
8.IX.1954 |
8.IX.1954 |
Sarre |
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Sweden |
4.II.1952 |
22.VI.1953 |
– |
Yes - Oui |
Suède |
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Turkey |
18.V.1954 |
18.V.1954 |
– |
Turquie |
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United Kingdom |
8.III.1951 |
3.XI.1952 |
The Convention only for 42 territories La convention, p. 42 territoires énumérés 23.X.53 |
7.IX.1954 |
7.IX.1954 |
7.IX.1954 |
7.IX.1954 |
7.IX.1954 |
7.IX.1954 |
5.V.1955 |
22.III.1954 |
5.V.1955 |
Royaume-Uni |
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Agreement - Protocol
Date and place of Signature : - Paris 2.IX.1949 - Strasbourg 6.XI.1952
Conditions of entry into force : - 7 Ratifications - Ratification by all Members which have ratified the Agreement
Date of entry into force : - 10.IX.1952
Belgium - 5.IV.1951 - 24.VII.1953
Denmark - 2.IX.1953 - 2.IX.1953
France - — - —
German Federal Republic - AccessionNote - AccessionNote
10.1X.1954 - 10.1X.1954
Greece - 17.X1.1953 - 17.X1.1953
Iceland - AccessionNote - AccessionNote
Ireland - — - —
Italy - 7.11.1952 - —
Luxembourg - 10.IX.1952 - 29.VI.1953
Netherlands - 18.111.1950 - 19.VI.1953
Norway - 1.XII.1949 - 24.IV.1953
Saar - AccessionNote - AccessionNote
16.11.1954 - 16.11.1954
Sweden - 25.IX.1950 - 30.IV.1953
Turkey - — - —
United Kingdom - 25.IX.1950 - 19.XI.1954