Appendix
1. With regard to the right of entry
and sojourn of nationals of the Members of the Council of Europe,
the Experts are required to examine, without prejudice to the question
of a European Passport, the possibility of abolishing visas, the
grounds deemed valid for deportation, and formal guarantees against
arbitrary deportation.
2. With regard lo the practice of trades and professions, a certain
assimilation of status of the nationals of the respective Members
of the Council of Europe is desirable. Such assimilation may well
begin with a recognition of the equivalence of professional degrees,
of the inapplicability of restrictions imposed for the protection
of the home labour market to persons who can prove that they have
been regularly resident without interruption for at least 5 years.
The Experts are asked to examine the possibility of recognising
the equivalence of degrees, and the methods whereby might be established
equivalent conditions for the obtaining of degrees, so as to achieve
such equivalence. There is also one aspect of the question, that
of the protection of the home worker, which clearly goes beyond
the scope of the Resolution. The work of the Permanent Commission
of the Brussels Treaty powers may well be consulted with advantage
by the Experts.
3. In the matter of legal protection, its extension to the nationals
in question may take the form of abolition of the Cautio judicatum solvi demanded
in some countries from foreign nationals.
4. As for the utilisation of the public services, the question
of admission to the welfare facilities in the way of medical and
hospital aid (except in so far as they relate solely to social security
regimes), those two questions may be usefully studied by the Experts.
The advice of UNESCO might, incidentally, be requested on the question
of admission to schools.
5. As for the exercise of certain public rights, the Experts
may care to examine the question of granting persons who have resided
in a given country for a certain number of years (5 years for instance),
the right to vote for and be elected to the Governing bodies of
Administrative and Economic concerns, (Chambers of Commerce, Chambers
of Agriculture and Trades Councils).
The Experts shall also be at liberty to take into consideration
the principle involved in the question of voting, the right to vote
for and be elected to the Headquarters Command of local defence
organisations.
