Nationality
NEWS
Brochure on the right to a nationality now available A new brochure on the right to a nationality as a fundamental right is now available to download. This brochure gives information on the role and importance of the Council of Europe conventions on nationality. Download here: __________________________________________________________________________________ New observatory on citizenship in Europe has been launched EUDO CITIZENSHIP is a new web-based observatory that provides analyses and data on citizenship laws and policies in all EU member states and six neighbouring countries at http://eudo-citizenship.eu. __________________________________________________________________________________ Workshop on the changing concepts of nationality (Vienna, 14-15 September) The workshop will aim to form a bridge between the Council of Europe's work on nationality issues carried out in the past and the new challenges to be faced, in particular in the preparation of the 4th Council of Europe Conference on nationality taking place in 2010. The theme of this 4th conference will be 'the changing concepts of nationality in today’s and tomorrow’s globalised world'. Experts taking part in the workshop will be invited to share experiences and views on several topics of current and future importance (more). ___________________________________________________________________________________ Austria signs the Convention on the avoidance of statelessness in relation to State succession On Monday 24 August, Austria became the 6th State to sign the Council of Europe Convention on the avoidance of statelessness in relation to State succession (CETS No.: 200). Click here for status of signatures and ratifications. ___________________________________________________________________________________ The Council of Europe Convention on the avoidance of statelessness in relation to State succession (CETS No.: 200) entered into force on 1 May 2009 This Convention builds upon the European Convention on Nationality (ETS No. 166) by developing more detailed rules to be applied by States with a view to preventing, or at least reducing to the extent possible, cases of statelessness arising from State succession. While regulating the obligations of the successor and predecessor states, the Convention on the Avoidance of Statelessness in relation to State Succession also clarifies the rights and duties of states only indirectly concerned in the state succession process, through the presence on their territory of nationals of one of the states involved.
INTRODUCTION
Although it is a matter for States to decide, subject to the fundamental rules of international law, which persons are their nationals, it is important for States to co-operate and co-ordinate their nationality laws in order to deal with such issues as statelessness, state succession and multiple nationality and their consequences. That is the objective of the main European legal instrument in the area of nationality - the European Convention on Nationality (CETS No.166), which was adopted by the Council of Europe in 1997 and entered into force on 1 March 2000. Another important Council of Europe legal instrument in the area of nationality – the Convention on the Avoidance of Statelessness in relation to State Succession (CETS No. 200) – was opened for signature on 19 May 2006.
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