PACE
Facts and figures
Legal Bases:
- Statute of the Council of Europe
- Law on the Election of German Representatives to the Parliamentary Assembly
- Rules of Procedure of the Assembly
Aims:
- Protection and strengthening of pluralistic democracy and human rights
- Discussion of topical political, economic and social issues and questions of common concern
- Promotion of European cultural identity
Number of Member States:
46 and three countries as observers
German membership since:
1950
German contribution:
12.3 % (contribution to the Council of Europe, including the Assembly)
Total number of seats:
315 representatives and 315 substitutes
18 representatives (7:6:2:2:1), 18 substitutes
Head of delegation:
Deputy head:
Bodies
- Bureau (1 President, 20 Vice-Presidents, five chairpersons of the political groups and ten chairpersons of the general committees)
- Standing Committee
- Ten general committees
President:
René van der Linden (Netherlands)
Headquarters:
Strasbourg
Sessions:
Four per year
Place of meeting:
Strasbourg
- Political Affairs Committee
- Committee on Economic Affairs and Development
- Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee
- Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights
- Committee on Culture, Science and Education
- Committee on the Environment, Agriculture and Local and Regional Affairs
- Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population
- Committee on Rules of Procedure and Immunities
- Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men
- Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee)
Committee meetings:
Every 6 - 7 weeks
Place of meeting:
Strasbourg and Paris and in the individual Member States of the Council of Europe
Official languages:
English and French
Working languages:
English, French, German, Italian and Russian
Quelle:
http://www.bundestag.de/htdocs_e/internat/interparl_orga/eurorat/kurz
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