The Committee of Ministers at Deputy level
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The Committee of Ministers (CM) is the Council of Europe's decision-making body. Its role and functions are described in Chapter IV of the Statute. The CM meets at ministerial level and at Deputy level (the Ministers' Deputies).
In accordance with Article 14 of the Rules of Procedure of the CM, each Minister for Foreign Affairs appoints a Deputy to act on his behalf outside the meetings held at the level of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs.
The Committee of Ministers meeting at Deputy level is empowered to deal with all matters within the competence of the Committee of Ministers and to take decisions on its behalf. Decisions taken by the Deputies have the same force and effect as decisions taken by the Committee of Ministers meeting at the level of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs. The Deputies do not, however, take decisions on any matter which, in the view of one or more of them, should by reason of its political importance be dealt with by the Committee of Ministers meeting at ministerial level.
Meetings of the Deputies are organised along the following lines, whilst maintaining some flexibility:
- 3 Deputies’ meetings per month, in principle on a Wednesday;
- the Deputies’ Human Rights (DH) meetings, devoted to the supervision of the execution of judgments of the Court in compliance with Article 46 of the European Convention on Human Rights, take place at least 4 times a year for a duration of two or three days;
- extraordinary meetings may be convened by the President on urgent matters.
The Deputies are assisted by the Bureau and by their rapporteur and working groups.
1493rd meeting of the Ministers' Deputies
20 March 2024 09:15 -
18:00
25 March 2024 15:00 -
18:00
Place : CM Room
List of documents :Meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies on 6 March 2024
At their 1491st meeting, on 6 March 2024, the Ministers’ Deputies held an exchange of views with Mr Ian Borg, Chair-in-Office of the OSCE, Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade of Malta, on the priorities of Malta’s Chairpersonship of the OSCE and cooperation between the two...
Meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies on 21 February 2024
At the beginning of their 1490th meeting, on 21 February, the Ministers' Deputies held a minute of silence in tribute to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalnyy, who died on 16 February at the Russian Artic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence. The Deputies then examined the...
Meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies on 14 February 2024
At the beginning of the 1489th meeting of the Ministers' Deputies, on 14 February 2024, the President, followed by other delegations, paid tribute to the memory of Mr Robert Badinter, former French Minister of Justice who was responsible for the abolition of the death penalty in France in 1981....