(f) the effect of such measures on each Member State.
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The Committee shall have power to appoint sub-committees to obtain the assistfce48 experts, and to hear witnesses. The Fette beбub- mitted to the President of the Assembly by 30th April. It will be debated at the 1950 session, and the Assembly request that the recommendations then adopted will immediately be discussed by the national Parliaments.
II-A Standing Committee consisting of the President, the four Vice- Presidents, and 23 members of the Assembly is set up. It will meet not less than four times a year.
Its duties will be--
(a) to co-ordinate resolutions of the Assembly and reports or recom-
mendations from the Committees;
(b) to prepare the Assembly's programme of work;
generally to facilitate and expedite the work of the Assembly.
The President, acting on behalf of the Committee, will consult the Committee of Ministers about convening an extraordinary session and any matters arising out of the last session.
III.--Other Resolutions
(1) Proposals already made for an extraordinary session of the Assembly to be referred to the Standing Committee. The Assembly regards such an extraordinary session as inevitable.
(2) If a simple majority of members of the Consultative Assembly ask the President for an extraordinary session, the President should convey this request to the Committee of Ministers.
(3) Secretary-General to request the Committee of Ministers to provide funds for the Standing Committee.
(4) Standing Committee to study proposals-
(i) that the Committee of Ministers should urge their Governments to instruct the peoples of Europe in the dangers of isolation and the advantages of union;
(ii) that Article 13 of the Statute (laying down that the Committee of Ministers is the organ which acts for the Council) should be amended;
(iii) to create a European political authority;
(iv) to endow the Committee of Ministers with supra-national powers;
(v) to create a European civil service.
(5) Proposals for amendment of Article 20 of the Statute (dealing with the voting procedure in the Committee of Ministers) to be referred to the General Affairs Committee and covered in the report to be submitted by 30th April, 1950 (see I above).
(6) General Affairs Committee to draw up by 30th April, 1950, for submission to the Assembly, a binding European Agreement defining the basic principles of the Council and outlawing war between members.
(7) The Assembly considers that the aim of the Council of Europe is "the creation of a European political authority with limited functions but real powers.
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IV. Recommendations to the Committee of Ministers
(a) In regard to the amendment of the Statute:---
Articles 4 and 5. (Accessions to membership and associate member- ship). Amendment to make admission to the Council subject to the approval of a simple majority of the Consultative Assembly.
Article 23.-Amendment of which the effect is to remove the control by the Committee of Ministers over the agenda of the Consultative Assembly.
Articles 25 (c) and 26.—Amendment to double the number of repre- sentatives and abolish substitutes.
Article 36.-Amendment to provide for two Deputy Secretaries- General, instead of one as at present, one for the Committee of Ministers andaghe 60t Beoff66the Assembly.