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. Statute of a Political Community of a supranational character.
3. Rôle of the Council of Europe in the new pattern of organisation of Europe.
4. Future position of the Saar.
5. Progress achieved in the sphere of European defence. 6. Establishment of a procedure for consultation among the 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. Coordination 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 co-ordinating 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 14a. Establishment of an Economic and Social Council of the Council of Europe.
15. Common policy of Member States in social matters.
16. Exchange of war-cripples in order that they may benefit by therapeutic methods in the different member countries of the Council of Europe.
Questions referred to the Committee of Cultural and Scientific Questions
17. Establishment of a European Linguistic Community based on the application of Anglo- French bilingualism.
18. Study of ways and means of establishing a European Cinema Pool.
19. Inquiry into the use of television as a medium for securing support among the general public for the European idea.
Questions referred to the Committee on Legal and Administrative Questions
20. Simplification of frontier formalities for travellers.
21. Settlement of disputes by International Courts of Law.
22. Conclusion of a European Convention on Extradition, in accordance with the desire of all the Members for common action in the legal field.
23. Relations between the Council of Europe and non-governmental organisations.
Questions referred to the Committee on Population and Refugees
24. Measures to be taken in order to assist West Berlin refugees.
25. Measures to be adopted for securing the integration in the economic system of refugees and surplus elements of population.
26. Methods of integration of refugees or surplus agricultural workers in the agricultural economy of the Member States of the Council of Europe.
Questions referred to the Committee on Rates of Procedure and Privileges
27. Inclusion of the German, Italian and Dutch languages in the simultaneous interpretation service of the Assembly.
28. Creation of a Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions.
Questions referred to the Special Committee on Municipal and Regional Affairs
29. Enquiry into the national or international bodies connected with local government whose European character suggests that they might be suitably enrolled, in conditions to be specified, in a campaign to arouse ever wider support among the general public for the European idea.
30. 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.
31. Measures for rendering assistance to the areas of the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Turkey which suffered damage in the recent disaster.
32. Study of ways and means of protecting and furthering local autonomy in member countries.
33. Study of ways and means of ensuring the representation of Local Authorities in European institutions.
34. Establishment of a European Fund for Inter-Municipal Assistance among the local government administrations of Member States, and under the auspices of the Council of Europe, for the provision of immediate and effective financial aid to any European municipality overtaken by disaster.
Questions referred to the Special Committee to watch over the interests of European nations not represented in the Council of Europe
35. Participation of European non-member countries in certain of the Council of Europe's activities.
36 Possibility of allowing nationals, including exiles, from European non-Member countries, to compete for Council of Europe Research Fellowships.