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Recommendation 2042 (2014) Final version
Access to nationality and the effective implementation of the European Convention on Nationality
1. The Parliamentary Assembly pays
tribute to the work of the Council of Europe’s Group of Specialists
on Nationality (CJ-S-NA) and its predecessor, the Committee of Experts
on Nationality. It regrets that the work of the CJ-S-NA has been
discontinued and that no follow-up has been given to the proposals
presented in its final report in 2009.
2. Referring to its Resolution
1989 (2014) on access to nationality and the effective implementation
of the European Convention on Nationality, the Assembly recommends
that the Committee of Ministers:
2.1. examine
ways and means of promoting accession to the European Convention
on Nationality (ETS No. 166), as well as its speedy implementation
at national level;
2.2. re-establish an expert committee on nationality, which
could conduct a study on new trends related to nationality matters,
such as the growing acceptance of multiple nationality, acquisition
of nationality at birth by children of long-term residents or conditions
for naturalisation, including the criterion of residence, and examine
the current and continuous relevance of the Convention on the Reduction
of Cases of Multiple Nationality and on Military Obligations in
Cases of Multiple Nationality (ETS No. 43) and its protocols (ETS
No. 95, ETS No. 96 and ETS No. 149);
2.3. stimulate and supervise, in co-ordination with the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the member States in the
establishment of a statelessness determination procedure at the national
level, in accordance with their obligation under the European Convention
on Nationality to avoid statelessness;
2.4. draft a recommendation on the matters referred to in paragraph
2.1 above.