Bureau of the Ministers' Deputies
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A Bureau was set up in March 1975 to assist the Ministers' Deputies. Since May 2001, it has consisted of six members in the English alphabetical order: the current President, the two previous Presidents and the three future Presidents.
The Bureau has no decision-making power on questions of substance and may not substitute itself for the full Committee (CM).
It's main tasks are:
- providing guidance to the President and Secretariat on handling CM business;
- preparing the meetings of the CM;
- contacts with the Parliamentary Assembly;
- representing the CM in some other meetings and exchanges of views;
- at the request of the Presidency or the CM, receiving visitors on behalf of the CM;
- advising the President at his/her request on urgent political statements to be issued by the President in his/her own name;
- submitting relevant proposals about the nomination of Chairs of Rapporteur Groups and Working Parties to the CM for decision;
- examination of requests for the use of the CM meeting room and foyer.
See the iGuide to procedures and working methods (Chapter III § 20.) for more information. >>
Members of the Bureau as at 2 September 2024
Presidency of the Ministers' Deputies
Lithuania
Mr Andrius Krivas, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Future Chairs
Luxembourg
Mr Patrick Engelberg, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
First Vice-Chair
Malta
Ms Francesca Camilleri Vettiger, Ambassador
Republic of Moldova
Ms Daniela Cujbă, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Previous Chairs
Liechtenstein
Mr Domenik Wanger, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Second Vice-President
Latvia
Ms Agnese Vilde, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Access to documents
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Many of the documents relating to the work of the Committee of Ministers (CM) are classified "restricted" at the time of issue, which means that only the governments of member and observer States and the Secretariat of the Council of Europe have access to them. The majority of these documents are declassified immediately after the meeting at which they are examined by the CM, although certain documents may remain classified for one year from the date of issue.
Documents prepared by the Ministers’ Deputies' working groups (GR-C, GR-DEM, etc.) are usually classified "restricted" for one year from the date of issue.
Very rarely, a document may be classified “confidential" at the time of issue, which means that only member State governments have access to it. Confidential documents are declassified after 10 years.
The texts currently in force on access to documents are CM/Del/Dec(1998)641/1.3 and CM/Del/Dec(2000)735/1.5a, para. 7.