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ANNEX
REPORT ON THE FIRST SESSION OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE
8th August to 8th September, 1949
I.-Introduction
The Preparatory Commission for the establishment of the Council of Europe, set up on 5th May, 1949, at the same time as the Statute of the Council of Europe was signed, met from May to July in Paris. A meeting, at which all the Foreign Ministers concerned were represented, was held in Paris on 5th and 6th August, 1949, to prepare the way for the Committee of Ministers, and reached agreement on the less important points in the Preparatory Commission's Final Report. This Final Report, with the work done on it by the preparatory meeting, formed the basis for the discussions of the Committee of Ministers at their meeting at Strasbourg from 8th to 13th August.
2. The Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe met from 10th August until 8th September. Its work proceeded in three stages:
(a) general debate in the Assembly;
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detailed work in the committees set up by the Assembly;
second debate in the Assembly on the reports prepared by the committees, resulting in resolutions or in recommendations to the Committee of Ministers.
These recommendations have now been transmitted by the Chairman of the Consultative Assembly to the Chairman of the Committee of Ministers (see Appendix A), and the latter body will consider them at their next meeting at the beginning of November.
II. Work of the Committee of Ministers
4. The Agenda before the Committee of Ministers was as follows:- PART I
(1) Admission of new members.
(2) Report of the Preparatory Commission :-
Draft rules of procedure for the Committee of Ministers. (b) Draft rules of procedure for the Consultative Assembly.
(c) Draft agenda for the Consultative Assembly.
(d) Draft budget for 1949.
(e) Financial and administrative regulations.
Preliminary report on the staff requirements of the Secretariat. (9) Draft General Agreement on the privileges and immunities of the
Council of Europe.
(h) Draft Special Agreement between the Council of Europe and the Government of the French Republic concerning the seat of the Council of Europe.
(2) Contributions from each of the Members to the expenses of the
Council for 1949. '
(3) Recommendations of the Committee of Ministers to the Assembly for the nomination of the Secretary-General and the Deputy Secretary- General.
(4) Statement to the Assembly under Article 19 of the Statute.
PART II
(1) Examination of items proposed by the Assembly for inclusion in its
agenda.
Dissolution of the Preparatory Commission.
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