Questions to be included in the Agenda of the Consultative Assembly
Preliminary List
| Doc. 223
| 01 April 1954
- Author(s):
- Committee of Ministers
- Thesaurus
1. Report of the Committee of Ministers
and Progress Report of the Standing Committee.
2. General Report of the High Authority of the European Coal
and Steel Community.
3. Report transmitted to the Council of Europe by the Organisation
for European Economic Cooperation.
4. Action taken on Recommendation 57 concerning the future position
of the Saar.
5. Definition of the policy of the Council of Europe in the light
of recent developments in the international situation.
6. Establishment of a procedure for consultation among European
Delegations to world organisations.
7. Debate on the common efforts to be made by Western Europe
to ]Dromote normal trade relations with the East.
8. Co-ordination between tho economies of the Member States
of the Council of Europe and those of the overseas countries having
constitutional links with them.
9. Conclusion of a European Convention on Extradition, in compliance
with the desire of all Members for common action in tho legal field.
10. Simplification of Frontier Formalities for Travellers.
11. Creation of a Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions.
12. Statute of a Political Community of a supranational character.
13. Protection \ of the Interests of European Nations not represented
in the Council of Europe (Creation of a European Cultural Fund for
Exiles).
14. Reconsideration, as far as possible in collaboration with
the Committee of Ministers, of earlier Recommendations, and Resolutions
of the Consultative Assembly which might be applied within the programme
.of ' work decided upon by the Committee of Ministers,
15. Progress achieved in the sphere of European defence.
16. Role of the Council of Europe in the new pattern of organisation
of Europe.
17. Establishment of an Economic and Social Council of the Council
of Europe.
18. Creation of European Companies enjoying a legal and administrative
status agreed upon by .Member States.
19. Removal of customs barriers and trade restrictions, in Europe,
:
20. Methods of encouraging, developing, and '-coordinating investment
and credit for the benefit -of "European industry.
21. Issue of a collective loan for European defence;
22. Co-ordination of European transport.
23. Common policy of Member States on social questions.
24. Exchange of war-cripples in order that they may benefit by
therapeutic facilities available in the various member countries
of the Council of Europe.
25. Investigatio n of the possibility of coordination among, the
national institutions of the member countries of the Council of
Europe concerned with social research, and of the application of
such research, particularly in backward areas, within- the competence
of those institutions.
26. Settlement of disputes by international Courts of Law.
27. Measures to'be adopted for the integration of refugees and
surplus elements of population into the economic system.
28. Methods of integration of refugee or surplus agricultural
workers into the agricultural economy of member countries of the
Council of Europe.
29. Establishment of a European linguistic Community based on
the application of Anglo-French bilingualism.
30. Study of ways and means of establishing a European Cinema
Pool.
31. Introduction of the teaching of European hiunanities in the
member countries.
32. Inclusion of the German, Italian and Dutch languages in the
simultaneous interpretation service of the Assembly.
33. Participation of European non-member countries in certain
activities of the Council of Europe.
34. Study of ways and means of protecting and furthering local
autonomy in member countries.
35. Study of ways and means of ensuring the representation of
local authorities in European institutions.
36. 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.
37. Establishment of a European Fund for Inter-municipal Assistance
under the auspices of the Council of Europe.
