At their 1413^th meeting, on 7 October, the Ministers’ Deputies held their six-monthly review of the situation with regard to the abolition of the death penalty and took several decisions in this regard.

The Deputies continued their exchange of views on ways of enhancing the European Social Charter system and agreed to set up an ad hoc working party on improving the European Social Charter system (GT CHARTE), with a mandate to make proposals to the Ministerial Session in May 2022 and to examine more longer-term substantive and procedural issues.

The Deputies also held exchanges of views with:

• Ms Dunja Mijatović, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights;
• Mr Rik Daems, President of the Parliamentary Assembly, on the results of the 4th part of the PACE 2021 Session (Strasbourg, 27-30 September 2021).

The other items examined by the Deputies appear in the Agenda and the decisions adopted are available in the meeting file.