The summaries available hereunder are designed to meet a practical need, that of supplying the public at large with concise descriptions of the Council of Europe treaties. The summaries are necessarily short and can therefore only give a first introduction to the main features of each treaty.

• Compilation of all summaries

• Compilation of summaries sorted by subject-matter (alphabetical order) 

• Arbitration 
• Audiovisual Law 
• Au pair work 
• Biomedicine 
• Cinema 
• Civil Law 
• Civil liability 
• Commercial Law 
• Corruption 
• Court procedure 
• Culture 
• Cybercrime 
• Data protection 
• Enforcement of sanctions 
• Environment 
• European Social Charter 
• Extradition 
• Family Law - Rights of children 
• Financial Law 
• General international law 
• Higher education 
• Human Rights 
• Human Rights (Convention and Protocols only) 
• Intellectual Property 
• Legal co-operation in administrative and fiscal matters 
• Legal co-operation in civil matters 
• Legal co-operation in criminal matters - I 
• Legal co-operation in criminal matters - II 
• Legal status of the Council of Europe 
• Local and Regional Authorities 
• Migrant workers 
• Minorities 
• Movement of persons 
• Mutual assistance in criminal matters 
• Nationality 
• Other legal co-operation 
• Prevention of torture 
• Protection of Animals 
• Protection of victims 
• Public health 
• Radio and Television 
• Refugees 
• Social Law 
• Social and medical assistance 
• Social protection of farmers 
• Social security 
• Sport 
• Terrorism 
• Transfer of proceedings 
• Wills