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Recommendation 2063 (2015) Final version
Witness protection as an indispensable tool in the fight against organised crime and terrorism in Europe
1. Referring to its Resolution 2038 (2015) on
witness protection as an indispensable tool in the fight against organised
crime and terrorism in Europe, the Parliamentary Assembly recommends
that the Committee of Ministers:
1.1. take
stock of the implementation of its Recommendation Rec(2005)9 on
the protection of witnesses and collaborators of justice;
1.2. undertake a comprehensive study on the design and operation
of witness protection programmes in all Council of Europe member
States, in particular with respect to incentives for co-operation
of collaborators of justice, in order to harmonise, where necessary,
rules for the transnational implementation of such measures;
1.3. encourage member States to collect and share statistics
on the results of co-operation of witnesses and collaborators of
justice with the investigative and judicial authorities, in particular
the number of convictions based on their testimonies.