Relating to the amendment of the Statute of the Council of Europe

Recommendation 41 (1953)

Author(s):

Parliamentary Assembly

Origin

This Recommendation was adopted by the Assembly at its thirty-fourth Sitting, 17th January, 1953 (See Doc. 103, Report of the Committee on General Affairs)

The Assembly,

Welcoming the desire of the Ad Hoc Assembly to strengthen the Council of Europe and to make it the general political framework for Europe;

Noting the view of the Ad Hoc Assembly that, if there are to be close links binding the Council of Europe and the Political Community together, the amendment of certain provisions of the present Statute is required;

Recommends to the Committee of Ministers :

a that in conformity with the suggestions of the Ad Hoc Assembly these amendments should provide, in particular, for prior consultation, which in certain cases would be obligatory, on all questions of European interest, and, specifically, on measures proposed by the Community which would affect the interests of other Member States of the Council of Europe;

b that sympathetic consideration be given to such further amendments as may prove necessary;

c that all proposed amendments be transmitted to the Consultative Assembly for an Opinion during the Fifth Ordinary Session.