Members of the European Committee of Social Rights

Aoife NOLAN (Irish)

President

Professor of International Human Rights Law and Co-Director of the Human Rights Law Centre, School of Law, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Term of Office : 31/12/2028

Eliane CHEMLA (French)

Vice-President

State councillor
State Council, Paris, France
Term of Office : 31/12/2024

Tatiana PUIU (Moldovan)

Vice-President

Attorney at Law, Specialist in Human Rights
Term of Office: 31/12/2024

Kristine DUPATE (Latvian)

General rapporteur

Associate Professor, International and European law, Faculty of Law, University of Latvia
Term of Office : 31/12/2028

József HAJDÚ (Hungarian)

Professor of Labour law and Social Security,
Faculty of law, University of Szeged, Hungary
Term of Office: 31/12/2024

Karin Møhl LARSEN (Danish)

Adviser on International Social Security issues and European Union Law (retired)
Term of Office: 31/12/2026

Yusuf BALCI (Turkish)

Professor of Labour Economics and Social Policy,
Faculty of Business, Istanbul Commerce University
Term of Office: 31/12/2024

Paul RIETJENS (Belgian)

Former Director general of Legal Affairs of the Federal Public Service of Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, Brussels, Belgium (retired)
Member of the Complaints Board of the European Schools,
Brussels, Belgium (since 2007)
Term of Office: 31/12/2026

George THEODOSIS (Greek)

Assistant Professor of Labour Law and Director of the Laboratory of Comparative and European Social Law,
Democritus University of Thrace, Komotini, Greece
Term of Office : 31/12/2026

Mario VINKOVIĆ (Croatian)

Professor of Labour law and Social security, Holder of the Jean Monnet Chair in EU Labour, Equality and Human Rights Law (2013-2016),
Faculty of Law, University of Osijek, Croatia
Term of Office : 31/12/2026

Miriam KULLMANN (German)

Professor of Labour Law and Social Security Law, Utrecht University School of Law, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Term of Office : 31/12/2026

Carmen SALCEDO BELTRÁN
(Spanish)

Professor of Labour law and social security University of Valencia (Spain);
Director of the International Research Group about “Human Rights and European Social Charter
Term of Office : 31/12/2028

Franz MARHOLD (Austrian)

Professor, Dr., Emeritus Lawyer;
Institute for Austrian and European Labour Law and Social Security Law
Term of Office : 31/12/2028

Alla FEDOROVA (Ukrainian)

Associate Professor, Institute of international relation Taras Shevchenko, National University of Kyiv.
Term of office : 31/12/2024

Grega STRBAN (Slovenian)

Professor, Head of Department of labour law and social security law, Faculty of Law of Ljubljana
Term of office : 31/12/2028

Composition of the European Committee of Social Rights (Committee of independent experts) since 1966

The European Social Charter
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Back States Parties to the European Social Charter are invited to report on health, social security and social protection by 31 December 2020

The European Committee of Social Rights transmitted the questions to States Parties of the Revised European Social Charter and the 1961 Charter relating to the provisions belonging to the thematic group 2 on health, social security and social protection under the reporting procedure. States parties are invited to report on the accepted provisions under the following articles: Article 3 (the right to safe and healthy working conditions), Article 11 (the right to protection of health), Article 12 (the right to social security), Article 13 (the right to social and medical assistance), Article 14, (the right to benefit from social welfare services), Article 23 or Article 4 of the of the Additional Protocol (the right of elderly persons to social protection), and Article 30 (the right to protection against poverty and social exclusion).

As in 2019, the European Committee of Social Rights, wishing to focus its monitoring and to alleviate the reporting burden of States, invites States Parties to limit the report to replies to specific and targeted questions for each of the above-mentioned articles of the Charter, without prejudice to responding to issues still pending from previous reporting cycles.

This is a result of the work carried out by the Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH) to identify good practices through a report with a view to improving the implementation of social rights in Europe and the proposals made by the European Committee of Social Rights which aim to render the reporting procedure under the European Social Charter more effective and targeted.

As the questions were addressed to states later than usual, the European Committee of Social Rights invites countries to submit their reports by 31 December 2020 (instead of end of October). Similarly, the Committee extends the period for submission of comments on national reports by trade unions, employers’ organisations and non-governmental organisations until 30 June 2021 (instead of the usual 30 April deadline).

Strasbourg, France 27/07/2020