Comparative Table of Parliamentary TA Institutions

COUNCIL OF EUROPE - THE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE 

ORGANISATION AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Assembly is the driving force of the Organisation in extending European co-operation to all democratic states throughout Europe. It has been behind many of the Organisation´s major initiatives such as the European Convention on Human Rights (1950) and the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (Oviedo Convention, 1997). It is consulted about the international treaties drawn up at the Council of Europe.

The Assembly speaks for 800 million Europeans citizens, acting as the democratic conscience of Greater Europe:

External relations of the Assembly cover not only national parliaments of member and non-member states, but also international parliamentary assemblies and international intergovernmental organisations. The Assembly has developed its contacts with the European Parliament, the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE, the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Benelux, the Nordic Council, PABSEC, CIS and others.

For many years the Assembly has also acted as a parliamentary forum for a certain number of intergovernmental organisations, in particular the OECD, and has developed close relations with specific organisations such as the EBRD and many of the specialised agencies of the United Nations.

 

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