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Recommendation 2112 (2017)
The “Turin process”: reinforcing social rights in Europe
1. The Parliamentary Assembly recalls
its Recommendation 1976
(2011) on the role of parliaments in the consolidation
and development of social rights in Europe and its Resolution 2180 (2017) on
the “Turin Process”: reinforcing social rights in Europe.
2. In view of the importance of the “Turin Process” for a future
common “European strategy of social rights”, the Assembly invites
the Committee of Ministers to take steps to ensure more rapid progress
with regard to the signature, ratification and implementation of
the European Social Charter (revised) (ETS No. 163) and its protocols,
and make social rights a priority for the 2018-2019 biennium of
the Council of Europe.
3. In particular, the Assembly calls on the Committee of Ministers
to adopt a unanimous decision to allow it to fulfil its appointed
function in the European Social Charter’s monitoring mechanism regarding
the election of the members of the European Committee of Social
Rights, as foreseen in the Protocol amending the European Social
Charter (ETS No. 142, “Turin Protocol”).
4. With a view to preparing the ground for closer co-operation
with the European Union in the future, notably in the framework
of the upcoming implementation of the European Pillar of Social
Rights, the Committee of Ministers is further invited to:
4.1. mandate the European Committee
of Social Rights to undertake an in-depth study on possible synergies
between the European Social Charter and the European Pillar of Social
Rights and the ways in which the first could serve as a common social
rights benchmark for all European States;
4.2. ensure high-level participation by the Council of Europe
in the upcoming Social Summit for Fair Jobs and Growth co-organised
by the European Commission and the Swedish Government in Gothenburg
on 17 November 2017 to debate and endorse the European Pillar of
Social Rights.