Ambassador Ruffer provided the CAHDI with an overview of the role and work of the Committee of Ministers’ Rapporteur Groups, in particular the one on Legal Co-operation (GR-J), which he chairs. He further presented the interaction between the work of the CAHDI and the GR-J, which reviews the draft terms of reference of the CAHD and examines the legal opinions prepared by the CAHDI to inform the reply of the Committee of Ministers to Recommendations adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Ambassador Ruffer recalled important previous contributions of the CAHDI to the work of the Council of Europe in the field of public international law, such as the CAHDI’s contribution to the 2017 review of the 1980 “Model Final Clauses for Conventions, Additional Protocols and Amending Protocols concluded within the Council of Europe” and the legal opinions provided by the CAHDI during the negotiations of Protocol No.14 bis (CETS No.204) to the ECHR as well as at the final stage of the negotiation of the Istanbul Convention (CETS No.210), in 2011. Finally, Ambassador Ruffer reported on current activities of the GR-J which may be of interest for the CAHDI, on topics like the administrative detention of migrants and the review of certain European Prison Rules from 2006. Future work of the GR-J, planned for 2020, includes a feasibility study on a possible Convention on the profession of lawyer, and a second additional protocol to the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime (ETS No.185).