European Social Charter

Calendar of Activities of the European Social Charter

2009

Jan Feb Mar April May June
July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec

January

Venue Activity
12Strasbourg Bureau of the Governmental Committee

February

Venue Activity
3-4Brussels Meeting on non-accepted provisions of the Revised Charter
16-20Strasbourg 234th Session of the European Committee of Social Rights
19-20Strasbourg Training for lawyers on the collective complaint procedure, organised by the Roma and Travellers Division and the Department of the European Social Charter
20Bratislava,
Slovakia
International Conference on Solidarity in Society at the time of the Global Financial Crisis
26-27Moscow, Russian Federation First Conference of European Ministers responsible for Social Cohesion

March

Venue Activity
4-5  Kyiv, Ukraine Training course on gender equality standards of the Revised Charter (joint programme between the Council of Europe and the European Union)
18 Moscow, Russian Federation Steering Committee on Co-operation Programmes between the Council of Europe and the Russian Federation
30-31 Strasbourg 235th Session of the European Committee of Social Rights

April

Venue Activity
1-2 Strasbourg 235th Session of the European Committee of Social Rights
3Bern, Switzerland Workshop "La Suisse et les droits sociaux : des garanties juridiques à la réalité sociale" (Switzerland and social rights: from legal guarantees to social reality)
27-28Valencia, Spain Seminario Internacional sobre “Actualidad de los derechos sociales en Europa"

May

Venue Activity
6Bucharest, Romania Meeting on non-accepted provisions
7-9Cracow, Poland (Jagiellonian University) XVII Congress of Labour Law and Social Security
11-15Strasbourg 236th Session of the European Committee of Social Rights 
25-28Strasbourg 119th meeting of the Governmental Committee

June

Venue Activity
16-17Vienna, Austria 29th Conference of European Ministers responsible for Family Affairs : “Public policies supporting the wish to have children: societal, economic and personal factors"
26Paris (France)

Workshop entitled "Les droits fondamentaux : charnières entre ordres et systèmes juridiques", Colloquy organised by the "Centre de recherche sur l'Union européenne" (Research Centre on the European Union) at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

29 June-3 JulyStrasbourg 237th Session of the European Committee of Social Rights

July

Venue Activity
11-12 Batumi (Georgia) Conference on "Justiciability of social rights in courts of constitutional jurisdiction and the European Court of Human Rights"

August

Venue Activity
    

September

Venue Activity
3-4Saint Petersburg (Russian Federation) Round Table with Ombudsmen of the Russian Federation (Joint Programme in cooperation with the European Union)
7-11Strasbourg 238th session of the European Committee of Social Rights
21-22 Bled (Slovenia)

 

Bucarest (Romania)

 

Round Table on ways of protection of the right to a trial within a reasonable time - countries' experiences

Conférence internationale "Le rôle de la législation européenne dans le développement du droit social en Roumanie" (The role of European legislation in the development of social law in Romania)

24-25Seville (Spain) "Derechos sociales y políticas públicas en el estatuto de autonomía para Andalucía"
29Paris (France) Joint meeting of the Bureaux of the European Committee of Social rights and the Governmental Committee

October

Venue Activity
1Toulouse (France) Conference at the University of Toulouse "Actualité de la Charte sociale du Conseil de l’Europe"
5-10Strasbourg 120th meeting of the Governmental Committee
6Paris (France) Session at the Ecole National d'Administration (ENA), "Protection des droits de l'homme"
15-16Marmara,  (Turkey) Colloquy "Les droits sociaux constitutionnels sous l'optique de la Charte sociale européenne"
19-23Strasbourg 239th Session of the European Committee of Social rights
28-29Geneva (Switzerland) Workshop on the justiciability of economic, social and cultural rights 

November

Venue Activity
4-6Madrid (Spain) International Conference of data protection and privacy commissioners 
5-6Tirana (Albania) Action Plan Seminar on the Revised Charter 
9-10Vienna (Austria) Joint FRA, COE, OSCE International Conference on Roma Migration and Freedom of Movement 
11Vienna (Austria) Seminar on the European Social Charter organised by the Council of Europe in the framework of the Third Summit Action Plan
25Berlin (Germany) Meeting with the Germany authorities on the Revised European Social Charter

December

Venue Activity
7-11Strasbourg 240th Session of the European Committee of Social Rights
7Strasbourg Round Table organised in co-operation with UNHCR on the social rights of refugees
11Strasbourg Bureau of the Governmental Committee
15-16Krasnodor (Russian Federation) Action Plan Seminar on the Revised European Social Charter