The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the European Union Christophe Hillion

Allocution de bienvenue de M. Philippe Boillat, directeur général, Direction générale des droits de l’homme et des affaires juridiques, Conseil de l'Europe

Allocution de bienvenue de M. Alan Phillips, Président du Comité consultatif de la Convention-cadre (disponible en anglais)

CommDH/Speech(2008)13 Statement by Thomas Hammarberg, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe (disponible en anglais)

Session d'ouverture

The end of the second monitoring cycle and the opening of new perspectives for the third monitoring cycle
by Ilze Brands-Kehris, Acting First Vice-President of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention (disponible en anglais)

Justice, relevance and participation: transnational activism in the field of minority protection in Europe
A perspective from Central and Southeast Europe (CEE)
by Anna-Mária Bíró (disponible en anglais)

Protection of the Minorities in the Republic of Bulgaria – Achievements and Challenges
by Kemal Eyup (disponible en anglais)

Workshop 1: The Impact Assessment of the Framework Convention

The impact of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities in selected countries of Western Europe after two monitoring cycles
Report prepared by Athanasia Spiliopoulou Åkermark (disponible en anglais)

The role of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities in selected countries of South-Eastern Europe after two monitoring cycles
Report prepared by Florian Bieber (disponible en anglais)

Indicators for Assessing the Impact of the FCNM in its State Parties
Report prepared by Tove Malloy, Roberta Medda-Windischer, Emma Lantschner and Joseph Marko (disponible en anglais)

A comment on the reports on the impact assessment of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities in the State Parties
Discussant paper prepared by Tatjana Perić (disponible en anglais)

A comment on the reports on the impact assessment of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities in the State Parties
Discussant paper prepared by Thede Boysen (disponible en anglais)

Workshop 2: The Framework Convention and other International Actors

The use of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities by other international actors, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the United Nations
Report prepared by Zdenka Machnyikova (disponible en anglais)

The use of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities by other Council of Europe mechanisms
Report prepared by Rianne Monique Letschert (disponible en anglais)

The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the European Union
Report prepared by Christophe Hillion (disponible en anglais)

The Framework Convention and International Actors
Discussant paper prepared by Ilona Klímová-Alexander (disponible en anglais)

The use of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities by other international actors, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the United Nations
Discussant paper prepared by Ljubomir Mikić (disponible en anglais)

The Framework Convention and other International Actors
Discussant paper prepared by Morten Kjærum (disponible en anglais)

The Use of the Framework Convention in the Activities of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
Discussant paper prepared by Brendan F. Moran (disponible en anglais)

Conclusions par
Giorgio Malinverni

Workshop 3: The Advisory Committee's Thematic Work