Doc. 8359

19 March 1999

Progress report of the Monitoring Committee
(1998-1999)

Information report

Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee)

Rapporteur: Mr Jordi SOLE TURA, Spain, Socialist Group

I .       INTRODUCTION

1.       Paragraph 13 of Resolution 1115(1997) requires the Committee to report to the Assembly once a year on the general progress of the monitoring procedures.

2.       The first progress report (Doc. 8057), covering the period April 1997-April 1998, was debated by the Assembly on 21 April 1998 and resulted in the adoption of Resolution 1155 (1998) and Recommendation 1366 (1998).

3.       The second progress report on the activities of the Monitoring Committee between April 1998-April 1999 is based on a series of tables, appearing in appendix, for reasons of clarity and celerity. The appendixes are scheduled as follows :

- Appendix A summarises the state of procedure with regard to all ten member states currently under monitoring procedure;

- Appendix B shows the state of signatures and ratifications of Council of Europe conventions by these ten member states ; the listed conventions are those referred to as part of commitments in Assembly Opinions on the most recent accessions ;

- Appendix C shows the main areas which have been covered under monitoring procedure in each of the ten member states ;

- Appendix D refers to relations between the Assembly and the Committee of Ministers on monitoring issues :

• Table D1 includes the list of Replies to Assembly Recommendations adopted by the Committee of Ministers over the last twelve months ;

• Table D2 indicates the meetings – formal and informal – which have taken place between representatives of the Committee of Ministers and of the Assembly in which monitoring issues were discussed ;

- Appendix E illustrates the meetings the Monitoring Committee or its representatives held with representatives of international organisations to discuss issues of common concern;

- Appendix F, finally shows the composition of the Committee by indicating the members appointed per political group and national delegation. The same appendix shows the list of co-rapporteurs and the political groups and the national delegations to which they belong.

4.        The data contained in the appendixes are briefly analysed in the following chapter.

II.       DATA ANALYSIS AND CONCLUSIONS

5. Appendix A shows that the Monitoring Committee progressed in all ten procedures under way:

(i) information reports were presented to the Assembly on Russia, Bulgaria and Turkey;

(ii) the report on Ukraine led to the adoption of Resolution and Recommendation: for the first time in the history of monitoring within the Organisation, the most serious of sanctions, suspension of Ukraine from its right of representation by next June, was envisaged;

(iii) a report, including a draft resolution and recommendation, on Croatia was adopted by the Committee on 10 March 1999 with a view to a debate in the Assembly in its April 1999 part-session;

(iv) a draft report, incuding a preliminary draft resolution and a preliminary draft recommendation, on Moldova is being prepared with a view to an Assembly debate in June or September 1999;

(v) comments by the national parliamentary delegations concerned to preliminary draft reports on Latvia and Slovakia were received by the Committee on 10 and 18 March 1999 respectively and will allow the preparation of draft reports in the coming months;

(vi) draft reports are being prepared on the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and on Albania, following the visits of the rapporteurs to these countries on 17-19 February 1999 and on 24-26 February 1999, respectively.

6.       Progress has been significant as regards the state of signatures and ratifications of Council of Europe conventions by member states under monitoring, as may be seen in Appendix B. Three states have not yet signed Protocol 6 to the ECHR (Albania, Bulgaria and Turkey) while Latvia, Russia and Ukraine have signed but not yet ratified. Few states have ratified the Charter of Regional or Minority Languages and the (revised) Social Charter.

7.       Up until now, the Monitoring Committee has implemented its mandate in a vertical approach, i.e. by presenting country-by-country reports. However, Appendix C shows that almost all states subject to monitoring have in common a number of specific commitments such as those related to the judicial system (independence of the judiciary, role of the public prosecutors etc), prison conditions, freedom of the media and rights of minorities. The fact that the Monitoring Committee is simultaneously assisting several member states in the honouring of similar commitments seems to justify the question whether in such cases one thematic report would not prove to be more efficient. Such a thematic report may even be necessary in cases where the Monitoring Committee is instructed to examine one or several issues of immediate concern in a state which is being monitored; an example of such instruction is the recent reference by the Assembly’s Bureau to the Committee of a motion for a resolution on antisemitism in the Russian Federation. The Committee is considering this question.

8.       In this context, it is worth noting that on 12 January 1999 the Committee decided not to follow a request filed by one of its members to consider reopening of the monitoring procedure for Lithuania (closed in September 1997), in the light of treatment of allegedly political prisoners. The majority of members noted that, regardless of the substance of the problems raised, the request mentioned individual cases for which the European Court of Human Rights could be seized.

9.       As regards the Committee’s relations with the Committee of Ministers, Table D1 shows that over the last twelve months five replies were given to Assembly Recommendations related to monitoring. Delays have been considerably shortened with regard to the last three Recommendations. The reply to Assembly’s Recommendation 1395 (1999) on Ukraine, dated 28 January 1999, is expected.

10. As results from Table D2, monitoring issues have been discussed twice in the Joint Committee, once in a general way and more recently, with specific regard to Ukraine. Ukraine’s monitoring, among more general issues, gave rise to the first informal meeting between our Committee’s Bureau (accompanied by the rapporteurs on Ukraine and on death penalty) and the Chairman of the Ministers’ Deputies (accompanied by the Permanent Representative of Ukraine). A meeting of the Acting Chairman of the Committee of Ministers, the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Martonyi, with the Committee’s Chairman on 26 January 1999, marked the interest of the Hungarian Presidency in reinforced co-operation between the Committee of Ministers and the Monitoring Committee. Moreover, the Committee of Ministers has decided no longer to classify its documents related to monitoring as “secret” but as “confidential” and to inform the Assembly of follow-up action given to its own monitoring process. The report of the Committee of Wise Persons, recently debated in the Assembly, refers to the “essentially complementary” character of the monitoring procedures of the Assembly and of the Committee of Ministers and stresses that “the interaction between the two organs should be preserved and further developed”.

11.       Table E shows that the Committee developed relations with representatives of international organisations on issues of common concern. Monitoring appears also among the items on which discussions are taking place between the Bureaus of the European Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly.

12.       The key issue for success of the monitoring exercise remains the satisfactory co-operation of the states being monitored. It is worth noting that the Resolution and Recommendation on Ukraine’s monitoring – particularly critical texts - were adopted unanimously by the Assembly, including the members of the Ukrainian parliamentary delegation.

13.       Even more crucial is the impact which the Committee’s reports and its work in general can have on the states concerned for progress towards compliance with commitments and obligations. In autumn 1998, on the basis of a question raised by a member of the Bulgarian parliament, the Information Report on the honouring of commitments and obligations by Bulgaria, considered by the Assembly on 29 September 1998, was discussed within the Bulgarian parliament itself. This debate was broadcasted and covered by the printed media of the country. This example should be followed by other states being monitored; it is only normal that the national parliament discusses a report on the state concerned that has been debated by the Assembly of an Organisation of which that state is a member.

APPENDIX A :       STATE OF PROCEDURES

Member states	Accession date	References related to accession	References related to the origin of monitoring	Rapporteurs	Visits	Monitoring Committee Documents	Parliamentary Assembly documents
ALBANIA	29.06.1995	PA Opinion No. 189 (1995) CM Resolution (95) 8	Order 508 (1995) Resolution 1115 (1997)	Mr Sole Tura Mr Smorawinski	29-30.06.1998 22.11.1998* 24-26.02.1999		Addendum I to Bureau’s Progress Report, Doc. 8195 AddI, Addendum III. to Bureau’s Progress Report, Doc. 8292 AddIII
BULGARIA	07.05.1992	PA Opinion 161 (1992) CM Resolution (92) 8	Order 488 (1993) Order 508 (1995) Resolution 1115 (1997)	Mr Atkinson Mr Gjellerod	07-09.06.1998 07-10.02.1999		Information Report, Doc. 8180, considered on 21.09.1998
CROATIA	06.11.1996	PA Opinion 195 (1996) CM Resolution 96 (31)	Resolution 1115 (1997) Paragraph 12 of Opinion 195 (1996)	MrJaskiernia Mrs Stoyanova	10-13.11.1998	Report, draft resolution and draft recommendation adopted by the committee on 10.03.1999	Assembly debate foreseen for April 1999 part-session Doc. 8353
LATVIA	10.02.1995	PA Opinion 183 (1995) CM Resolution (95) 3	Resolution 1115 (1997)	Mr Davis Mr Jansson	29.04-1.05.1998 16-18.06.1998 03.10.1998*	Comments on a preliminary draft report (AS/Mon (98)35) received on 10.03.1999: AS/Mon (99)09
MOLDOVA	27.06.1995	PA Opinion 188 (1995) CM Resolution (95) 7	Order 508 (1995) Resolution 1115 (1997)	Mr Columberg Mrs Durrieu	27-30.10.1998 03-05.12.1998	Draft report discussed on 10.03.99: AS/Mon(99)05
RUSSIA	28.02.1996	PA Opinion 193 (1996) CM Resolution (96) 2	Order 508 (1995) Resolution 1115 (1997)	Mr Bindig Mr Muehlemann			Information Report, Doc.8127, considered on 22.06.1998
ANTISEMITISM IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION			Reference by the Bureau (Doc. 8311) on 29.01.1999
SLOVAKIA	30.06.1993	PA Opinion 175 (1993) CM Resolution (93) 3	Order 508 (1995) Resolution 1115 (1997)	Mr Sinka co-rapporteur to be appointed	26-30.07.1998 25-26.09.1998* (visits made by former rapporteurs)	Comments to a preliminary draft report (AS/Mon (98)50) received on 18.03.1999: AS/Mon (99) 10
THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA	09.11.1995	PA Opinion 191 (1995) CM Resolution (95) 23	Order 508 (1995) Resolution 1115 (1997)	Mr Dumitrescu Mrs Gelderblom- -Lankhout	18.10.1998* 17-19.02.1999	Comments to a preliminary draft report received on 22.10.1998: AS/Mon(98)51
TURKEY	13.04.1950		Order 508 (1995) Recommendation 1298 (1996) Resolution 1115 (1997)	Mr Barsony Mr Schwimmer	06-09.09.1998 20-22.11.1998		Information Report, Doc. 8300, considered on 25.01.1999
UKRAINE	09.11.1995	PA Opinion 190 (1995) CM Resolution (95) 22	Order 508 (1995) Resolution 1115 (1997)	Mr Kelam Mrs Severinsen	15-18.09.1998		Report, Doc. 8272, Resolution 1179 (1999) and Recommendation 1395 (1999) Adopted on 27.01.1999

* observation of referendum or elections

APPENDIX B:       STATE OF SIGNATURES AND RATIFICATIONS OF COUNCIL OF EUROPE CONVENTIONS BY STATES UNDER MONITORING

Council of Europe Conventions Referred to in commitments	Albania	bulgaria	croatia	latvia	Moldova	Russia	Slovakia	The former Yugoslav Rep. of macedonia	turkey	ukraine
European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)	R 2.10.96	R 7.9.92	R 5.11.97	R 27.6.97	R 12.9.97	R 5.5.98	R 18.3.92	R 10.4.97	R 18.5.54	R 11.9.97
Protocols 1,2 and 11 to the ECHR	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R
Protocols 4 and 7 to the ECHR	R	S	R	R	R	R	R	R	S	R
Protocol 6 to the ECHR		_	R 5.11.97	S 26.6.98	R 12.9.97	S 16.4.97	R 18.3.92	R 10.4.97	_	S 5.5.97
European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment(ECPT)	R 2.10.96	R 3.5.94	R 11.10.97	R 10.2.98	R 2.10.97	R 5.5.98	R 11.5.94	R 6.6.97	R 26.2.88	R 5.5.97
Protocols Nos. 1 and 2 to the ECPT	R	R	_	R	R	R	R	R	R	S
Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities	S 29.6.95	Ratification law adopted:18.2.99	R 11.10.97	S 11.5.95	R 20.11.96	R 21.8.98	R 14.9.95	R 10.4.97	_	R 26.1.98
European Charter for Local Self-Government	S 27.5.98	R 10.5.95	R 11.10.97	R 5.12.96	R 2.10.97	R 5.5.98	_	R 6.6.97	R 9.12.92	R 11.9.97
European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages	_	_	R 5.11.97	_	_		_	S 25.7.96	_	S 2.5.96
Convention on mutual assistance in criminal matters	S 19.5.98	R 17.6.94	Ratification law adopted:5.3.99	R 2.6.97	R 4.2.98	S 7.11.96	R 15.4.92	_	R 24.6.69	R 11.3.98
Convention on the transfer of sentenced persons	S 19.5.98	R 17.6.94	R 25.1.95	R 2.5.97	S 6.5.97		R 15.4.92	_	R 3.9.87	R 28.9.95
Convention on laundering, search, seizure and confiscation of proceeds from crime	_	R 2.6.93	R 11.10.97	R 1.12.98	S 6.5.97		_	_	_	R 26.1.98
(Revised) Social Charter	S 21.9.98	S 21.9.98	S 8.3.99	_	S 3.9.98	_	_	_	_	_
General Agreement on Privileges and Immunities	R 4.6.98	R 7.5.92	R 11.10.97	R 15.1.98	R 2.10.97	R 28.2.96	R 5.12.96	R 10.4.97	R 2.9.49	R 6.11.96
Protocol to the General Agreement on Privileges and Immunities	R 4.6.98	R 7.5.92	R 11.10.97	R 15.1.98	R 2.10.97	R 28.2.96	R 5.12.96	R 10.4.97	R 7.1.60	R 6.11.96
Second and Fourth Protocol to the Agreement	R 4.6.98	S 11.5.95	R 11.10.97	R 15.1.98	_	R 28.2.96	R 15.7.97		R 7.1.60/1.6.62
Third Protocol to the Agreement (open to member Sates of the Resettlement Fund)	Not relevant	_	R 11.10.97	_	_	Not relevant	_		R 16.1.75	not relevant
Fifth Protocol to the Agreement	R 4.6.98	_	R 11.10.97	R 15.1.98	_	R 28.2.96	R 15.7.97		R 1.6.94
Sixth Protocol to the Agreement	R 4.6.98	_	R 11.10.97	R 15.1.98	S 4.5.98		_			S 3.11.98

“R”: ratified; “S”: signed but not ratified; “-” no specific commitment undertaken upon accession or merely a commitment “to study with a view to ratification"

APPENDIX C:       AREAS COVERED UNDER MONITORING PROCEDURE

OBLIGATIONS and COMMITMENTS	ALBANIA	BULGARIA	CROATIA	LATVIA	MOLDOVA	RUSSIA	SLOVAKIA	THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA	TURKEY	UKRAINE
A.PLURALIST DEMOCRACY
Separation of powers	X								X	X
Elections (electoral law; access to media; assessment of whether free, general, secret and fair)	X		X	X			X	X		X
Political parties (status; conditions for setting up; fiscal rules/party finances)							X		X
Parliament (Pluralist composition; minority representation; control over the executive; immunities; rights and duties of the opposition etc.)	X		X				X
Special powers in emergency situations (use and control)									X
Local and regional self-government		X	X	X	X	X	X	X		X
B.RULE OF LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Status of domestic law vis-à-vis international human rights treaties									X
Effectiveness of constitutional/legal guarantees for human rights	X								X	X
Judicial system (independence of the judiciary; access to justice; criminal justice; role and status of public prosecutors; status of attorneys)	X	X	X		X	X	X	X	X	X
Police attitudes	X	X		X		X			X	X
Prison conditions and prison administration	X	X			X	X	X		X	X
Respect for private and family life (data protection)		X
Property rights (restitution, fair compensation)			X
Freedom of worship and of conscience	X	X			X	X				X
Freedom of expression, notably of the media	X	X	X		X		X	X	X	X
Freedom of association			X		X	X			X
Freedom of movement and of assembly						X
Equality between men and women
Minorities (non-discrimination; citizenship legislation; status and education in minority languages)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Policies to combat racism, antisemitism, xenophobia						X	X
C.OTHER ISSUES
Settlement of internal and international disputes by peaceful means	X		X		X	X			X	X

APPENDIX D :        RELATIONS BETWEEN THE ASSEMBLY AND THE COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS ON MONITORING ISSUES

      (March 1998 – March 1999)

Table D1:

Assembly Recommendations related to monitoring		Replies by the Committee of Ministers
Title	Date of adoption	Date of adoption	Delay
Recommendation 1312 (1997) on the honouring of obligations and commitments by Albania	29 January 1997	4 June 1998	16 months
Recommendation 1326 (1997) on the honouring of obligations and commitments by Romania	24 April 1997	11 March 1998	11 months and a half
Recommendation 1338 (1997) on the honouring of obligations and commitments of the Czech Republic as a member State	22 September 1997	31 March 1998	6 months
Recommendation 1339 (1997) on the honouring of obligations and commitments of Lithuania as a member State	22 September 1997	31 March 1998	6 months
Recommendation 1366 (1998) on the progress of the Assembly’s monitoring procedures	21 April 1998	7-9 September 1998	4 months and a half
Recommendation 1395 (1999) on the honouring of obligations and commitments by Ukraine	27 January 1999

Table D2:

Meetings between representatives of the Assembly and of the Committee of Ministers in which monitoring issues were discussed
Meeting between the Chairman-in-Office of the Committee of Ministers, Mr Martonyi, and the Chairman of AS/MON, Mr Mota Amaral	26 January 1999
Informal meeting of the AS/MON Bureau with the Chairman of the Ministers’ Deputies, Mr Perényi, Permanent Representative of Hungary to the CoE (i) on the monitoring procedures of the Parliamentary Assembly and of the Committee of Ministers; (ii) on Ukraine’s honouring of obligations and commitments, with the participation also of AS/MON Rapporteurs on Ukraine, Mr Kelam and Mrs Severinsen, of AS/JUR Rapporteur on the death penalty, Mrs Wohlwend, and of Mr Kupchyshyn, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the CoE	11 January 1999
Joint Committee:exchange of views on co-operation between Ukraine and the Council of Europe in the light of discussion in the Parliamentary Assembly (held on the previous day)	28 January 1999
Joint Committee: follow up to the Second Summit of Heads of State and Governments of the member states of the Council of Europe	23 April 1998

APPENDIX E:        MEETINGS OF THE MONITORING COMMITTEE OR ITS REPRESENTATIVES WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

Mr Espersen, Commissioner on Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Council of the Baltic States: Exchange of views on the situation of national minorities in the Baltic States and on continuing co-operation	Strasbourg	28 January 1999
European Union-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee: Invitation to the AS/MON rapporteurs on Bulgaria’s monitoring, MM Atkinson and Gjellerod, to participate in its meeting (rapporteurs were unable to attend but expressed their interest for future co-operation)	Brussels	30.11- 01.12.1998
European Union-Ukraine Parliamentary Co-operation Committee: Invitation to the AS/MON rapporteurs on Ukraine’s monitoring, Mr Kelam and Mrs Severinsen, to participate in its meeting (rapporteurs were unable to attend but expressed their interest for future co-operation)	Brussels	30.11- 01.12.1998
Mr Van der Stoel, High Commissioner of the OSCE on National Minorities: Exchange of views on the situation of national minorities in Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Slovakia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Ukraine and on continuing co-operation	The Hague	26 November 1998
Mrs Mann, Chairperson of the European Union-Ukraine Parliamentary Co-operation Committee: Exchange of views with AS/MON Rapporteur on Ukraine’s monitoring, Mr Kelam	Brussels	29 September 1998

      APPENDIX F:       MEMBERS OF THE MONITORING COMMITTEE AND CO-RAPPORTEURS

NATIONAL DELEGATION

POLITICAL GROUPS

Number of members per national delegation

Number of rapporteurs per national delegation

SOC

EPP/CD

EDG

LDR

UEL

Members:

Rapporteurs for:

Members

Rapporteurs for:

Members

Rapporteurs for:

Members

Rapporteurs for:

Members

Rapporteurs for:

Albania

0

0

Andorra

0

0

Austria

A.Gusenbauer

W.Schwimmer

Turkey

2

1

Belgium

R. Urbain

J. Weyts

J.Valkeniers

3

0

Bulgaria

E.Poptodorova

M.Stoyanova

Croatia

2

1

Croatia

Z.Domljan

J.Eltz

2

0

Cyprus

0

0

Czech Republic

O.Sehnalova

M.Nemcova

2

0

Denmark

H. Gjellerod

Bulgaria

P.S.Moeller

H.Severinsen

Ukraine

3

2

Estonia

T.Kelam

Ukraine

1

1

Finland

T.Kautto

[G.Jansson: Ex officio as AS/JUR Chair]

Latvia

1 [+1 ex officio]

1

France

J.Durrieu

Moldova

J.Baumel

2

1

Germany

R.Bindig

Russia

K.H. Hornhues

U.Irmer

3

1

Greece

K. Koulouris

E.Korakas

2

0

Hungary

A.Bársony

Turkey

L.Surjan

M.Eörsi

3

1

Iceland

0

0

Ireland

T.Enright

1

0

Italy

L.Diana

M.Brunetti

2

0

Latvia

J.Sinka

Slovakia

1

1

Liechtenstein

R. Wohlwend

1

0

Lithuania

R.Dagys

B.Kuzmickas

2

0

Luxembourg

0

0

Malta

J. Vella

1

0

Moldova

V.Nedelciuc

1

0

Netherlands

E.Jurgens

H.Eversdijk

H.Gelderblom- Lankhout

The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

3

1

Norway

O.Akselsen

J.Ringstad

L.Myrvoll

3

0

Poland

J.Jaskiernia

Croatia

J.Smorawinski

Albania

2

2

Portugal

J.Mota Amaral

1

0

NATIONAL DELEGATION

POLITICAL GROUPS

Number of members per national delegation

Number of rapporteurs per national delegation

SOC

EPP/CD

EDG

LDR

UEL

Members:

Rapporteurs for:

Members

Rapporteurs for:

Members

Rapporteurs for:

Members

Rapporteurs for:

Members

Rapporteurs for:

Romania

C.Dumitrescu

The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

G.Frunda

P.Steolea

3

1

Russia

V.Averchev

A.Shishlov

S.Glotov

3

0

San Marino

0

0

Slovakia

0

0

Slovenia

B.Pahor

1

0

Spain

J.Sole Tura

Albania

C.Ramirez Pery

2

1

Sweden

G.Magnusson

1

0

Switzerland

A.Gross [V. Ruffy: ex officio as AS/POL Chair]

D.Columberg

Moldova

E.Muehlemann

Russia

3 [+1 ex officio]

2

The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

A.Xhaferi

1

0

Turkey

A.Dinçer

E.Kiratlioglu

L.Aytaman

3

0

Ukraine

V.Kostytsky

E.Marmazov

2

0

United Kingdom

T.Davis

Latvia

D.Atkinson

Bulgaria

2

2

Total number of members per political group

22 [+1 ex officio]

19

10

9 [+ 1 ex officio]

5

65 [+2 ex officio]

Total number of rapporteurs per political group

8

5

2

4

0

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Reporting committee: Committee on the honouring of obligations and commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee).

Reference to committee: Resolution 1115 (1997).

Report unanimously approved by the committee on 10 March 1999.

Members of the committee: MM. Mota Amaral (Chair), Sole Tura (Vice-Chair), Mrs Gelderblom-Lankhout (Vice-Chair), MM. Sinka (Vice-Chair), Akselsen, Atkinson, Averchev, Mrs Aytaman, MM. Bársony, Baumel, Bindig, Brunetti, Columberg, Dagys, Davis, Diana, Dinçer, Domljan, Dumitrescu, Mrs Durrieu, MM. Eltz, Enright, Eörsi, Eversdijk, Frunda, Gjellerod, Glotov, Gross, Gusenbauer, Hornhues, Irmer, Jansson, Jaskiernia, Jurgens, Mrs Kautto, MM. Kelam, Kiratlioglu, Korakas, Kostytsky, Koulouris, Kuzmickas, Magnusson, Marmazov, Moeller, Muehlemann, Myrvoll, Nedelciuc, Mrs Nemcova, Mr Pahor, Mrs Poptodorova, Mr Ramirez Pery, Mrs Ringstad, MM. Ruffy, Schwimmer, Mrs Sehnalova, Mrs Severinsen, MM. Shishlov, Smorawinski, Steolea, Mrs Stoyanova, MM. Surjan, Urbain, Valkeniers, Vella, Weyts, Mrs Wohlwend, Mr Xhaferi.

N.B. The names of those members who took part in the meeting are printed in italics.

Secretaries to the committee: Mr Ausems, Mr Dufour and Mrs Chatzivassiliou.