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 The
Stakeholders’ Platform is a unique co-operation body whose role
it is to create synergies between all the Council of Europe
bodies in order to enhance the quality of governance at local
level.
The composition of the Stakeholders’ Platform is as follows:
“The Stakeholders’ Platform established within the
Council of Europe will comprise of (representatives of) the
Committee of Ministers, the Parliamentary Assembly, the Congress
of Local and Regional Authorities, the European Committee on
Local and Regional Democracy (CDLR) and the Conference of INGOs
of the Council of Europe. The Commissioner for Human Rights is
an observer to the Platform.
The Platform’s brief will be to follow and give guidance to the
implementation of the Strategy and further develop it in the
light of experience and to that end it will:
provide support, upon request, to national and regional
governments and local government
associations when they are developing
initiatives and programmes of action to deliver good
democratic governance for the
implementation of the Strategy;
endorse such programmes of
action;
further develop the European Label of Innovation and Good
Governance in the light of the
experience of testing by governments and
associations that have volunteered to do so;
subsequently promote the European Label of Innovation and Good
Governance across the continent;
approve arrangements for awarding the Label to local authorities
within individual member states and,
upon request, provide the necessary
technical assistance for developing such arrangements.”
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