The Assembly,
Having regard to the request of the Committee of Ministers for an opinion (Doc. 141) and its own Opinion No. 6 on the principles which should govern relations between the Council of Europe and international non-governmental organisations ;
Having regard to Order 55 on the procedure to be followed in considering requests for consultative status ;
Having regard to the request submitted by two organisations,
Recommends that the Committee of Ministers grant consultative status to the two following organisations in Category B :
International Road Transport Union,
International Catholic Migration Commission.
Having received from the Bureau of the Assembly requests for consultative status from two international non-governmental organisations, the Committees of the Assembly have made the following proposals to the Committee of Chairmen :
1. Economic Committee :
Category A for the International Road Transport Union ;
2. Committee on Population and Refugees :
Category B for the International Catholic Migration Commission.
After considering the proposals of the two Committees on 20th January 1959, with regard to the grant of consultative status to the international non-governmental organisations concerned, the Committee of Chairmen unanimously agreed with the opinion of the Committee on Population and Refugees as regards the International Catholic Migration Commission, but decided to propose that the International Road Transport Union should also be granted status B.