9-10 October 2008


  • Welcome address by Mr Philippe Boillat, Director General, Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs, Council of Europe
  • Welcome address by Mr Alan Phillips, President of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention
  • CommDH/Speech(2008)13 Statement by Thomas Hammarberg, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights

 

Opening Session

  • 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
  • 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
  • Protection of the Minorities in the Republic of Bulgaria – Achievements and Challenges
    by Kemal Eyup

 

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

 

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
  • The use of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities by other Council of Europe mechanisms
    Report prepared by Rianne Monique Letschert
  • The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the European Union
    Report prepared by Christophe Hillion
  • The Framework Convention and other International Actors
    Discussant paper prepared by Ilona Klímová-Alexander
  • 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
  • The Framework Convention and other International Actors
    Discussant paper prepared by Morten Kjærum
  • The Use of the Framework Convention in the Activities of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
    Discussant paper prepared by Brendan F. Moran
  • Conclusions by
    Giorgio Malinverni

 

Workshop 3: The Advisory Committee's Thematic Work

  • The work of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities on thematic commentaries, and the potential impact of these commentaries
    Report prepared by Asbjørn Eide
  • What Role for Future Thematic Commentaries? – A Comment on the report by Asbjørn Eide on thematic commentaries of the Advisory Committee
    Discussant paper prepared by Lidija R. Basta-Fleiner
  • The Dual Meaning of Participation: The Advisory Committee’s Commentary on Participation
    Contribution prepared by Francesco Palermo
  • Potential impact of the Advisory Committee's thematic commentaries from an NGO’s perspective
    Discussant paper prepared by Patrick Yu
  • Roundtable discussion: Marc Weller