ECRI held its 100^th plenary meeting in Strasbourg, which took place from 17 to 19 March 2026.

On 17 March, ECRI held an exchange of views with Alison Heydari, Director for the Police Race Action Plan, National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC), United Kingdom, and Jair Schalkwijk, representative of Controle Alt Delete, Netherlands, on racial profiling by law enforcement officials.

As part of its sixth country monitoring cycle, ECRI examined its preliminary draft report on Ukraine. As concerns its seventh country monitoring cycle, it examined its preliminary draft reports on Belgium, Czechia, Denmark and Norway. It also adopted its final reports on Albania, Austria, Monaco and the Slovak Republic.

In addition, ECRI adopted its annual report on its activities for 2025.

ECRI also held discussions on the basis of the work done by its working group on relations with civil society and equality bodies. In this context, it adopted internal guidelines on preventing and addressing intimidation and reprisals against civil society actors for seeking to engage or having engaged with ECRI.

In the course of its plenary meeting, ECRI also took note of the statements made by Lucia Plaváková, observer appointed by the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE),  Zeynep Yildiz, observer appointed by the PACE Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media, Sena Nur Çelik Kanat, substitute observer appointed by the PACE Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy, Mélanie Lepoultier, observer appointed by the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe and Deputy Standing Rapporteur on Human Rights, Michaela Moua, observer appointed by the Commission of the European Union (EU) and Anti-Racism Coordinator of the EU Commission, Thierry Rambaud, observer in respect of the Holy See, and Claudia Olivia Morales Resa, Chairwoman of Mexico’s National Council to Prevent Discrimination (CONAPRED), observer in respect of Mexico.

On the sidelines of this 100^th plenary meeting, Bertil Cottier, Chair of ECRI, underlined the importance, for ECRI members and ECRI partners, of being particularly vigilant in carrying out their missions and, undoubtedly more than ever before, of working and acting “together” in the face of the current geopolitical upheavals.

On the eve of the plenary meeting, on 16 March, the Bureau held an exchange with Georgios Stamatis, PACE General Rapporteur on Roma and Travellers.