14th progress report of the Special Representative of the Council of Europe for National Refugees and Over-Population

Recommendation 610 (1970)

Author(s):

Parliamentary Assembly

Origin

Assembly debate on 22 September 1970 (14th Sitting) (see Doc. 2811, report of the Committee on Population and Refugees). Text adopted by the Assembly on 22 September 1970 (14th Sitting).

The Assembly,

1. Having examined the 14th progress report of the Special Representative of the Council of Europe for National Refugees and Over-Population (Doc. 2772) ;

2. Noting with satisfaction the preparation by the Advisory Committee of two draft resolutions on school education for the children of migrant workers and on industrial safety for migrant workers ;

3. Expressing the hope that the European Migrant Workers' Statute will contain sufficiently high European standards so as to complement the European Social Charter as regards migrant workers' rights and guarantees,

4. Recommends that the Committee of Ministers :

a approve the 14th progress report of the Special Representative of the Council of Europe for National Refugees and Over-Population ;

b ensure that the Spécial Representative, when pursuing activities for which he is responsible or carrying out projects within his terms of reference, may be able to provide his Advisory Committee with the assistance of intergovernmental committees of experts to whom, according to their respective spheres of competence, draft resolutions emanating from the Special Representative would be referred either for detailed study or for opinion ;

c facilitate intervention by the Special Representative with member governments for the implementation of resolutions prepared by the Advisory Committee and adopted by the Committee of Ministers ;

d draw the attention of member govemments to the close interdependence between the skills acquired by workers in the immigration countries and the advantages which the emigration countries may derive from such skills on the return home of their nationals, when establishing industries requiring specialised manpower ;

e instruct a committee of inter-governmental experts to prepare proposals to enable member States to draw up standard statistics on the migration of workers based on synchronised and harmonised population censuses, according to Recommendation 533 (1968) of the Assembly ;

f again invite States not Members of the Resettlement Fund to accede to it, so that it may expand its activities.