Re-activation of the Council of Europe

Order 214 (1963)

Author(s):

Parliamentary Assembly

Origin

6th Sitting, 9th May 1963.

Directed to :

• A. Clerk of the Assembly
• B. Bureau of the Assembly

Section A. Implementation of Recommendation 358 and Resolution 246

The Assembly,

Having regard to Recommendation 358 and Resolution 246 on the re-activation of the Council of Europe,

1. Invites the Bureau of the Assembly to provide for the implementation of Section A, Part II, and Section C of the Recommendation;

2. Invites the Working Party on relations with national Parliaments, national delegations and the Bureau of the Assembly to consider ways and means of implementing the measures recommended in Section B, paragraph 1 of the Resolution;

3. Invites the Secretary-General to report to the Committee on die Budget and Administration and to the Bureau of the Assembly on die application of the provisions recommended in Section D of the Recommendation ;

4. Instructs the Office of the Clerk of the Assembly, on the authority of the President of the Assembly, to follow up the application of proposals furthering the re-activation of the Council of Europe.

Section B. Reform of the Secretariat

The Assembly,

Having adopted Section D of Recommendation 358 on the re-activation of the Council of Europe, which contains certain provisions that concern the staff of the Secretariat and are particularly urgent ;

Noting that the Working Party feels it impossible within the time at their disposal to consider in detail the functioning of the Secretariat, or, for lack of sufficient information, to put forward any precise and definite proposals for its reform ;

Accepting as a basis for discussion the ideas set forth in the Working Party's report,

Instructs the Bureau of the Assembly to set up, by agreement with the Committee of Ministers, a restricted tripartite committee (including representatives of the Assembly, the Committee of Ministers, and the Secretary-General) to consider in detail the structure of the Secretariat and to produce a report submitting to the Assembly and the Committee of Ministers such proposals as it thinks likely to promote the re-activation of the Council of Europe in this sphere.