13/07/2009 Monitoring
Strasbourg, 13.07.2009 – The co-rapporteurs for Georgia of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Mátyás Eörsi (Hungary, ALDE) and Kastriot Islami (Albania, SOC), have welcomed the statement by the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, David Bakradze, that the draft amendments to the laws on rallies, police and administrative offences will be submitted to the Venice Commission to ensure their compliance with Council of Europe standards of democracy and human rights.
These draft amendments are currently under discussion in the Georgian parliament and were adopted in a first reading on 11 July 2009.