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

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Back States Parties to the European Social Charter are invited to report on the rights of children, families and migrants by 31 December 2022

The European Committee of Social Rights transmitted, in the framework of the reporting procedure, the questions to States Parties of the Revised European Social Charter and the 1961 Charter relating to the provisions belonging to the thematic group 4 “children, families and migrants”. The following provisions are concerned:

the right of children and young persons to protection (Article 7);
the right of employed women to protection of maternity (Article 8);
the right of the family to social, legal and economic protection (Article 16);
the right of children and young persons to social, legal and economic protection (Article 17);
the right of migrant workers and their families to protection and assistance (Article 19);
the right of workers with family responsibilities to equal opportunity and treatment (Article 27)
the right to housing (Article 31).

States having accepted the collective complaints procedure from Group A are invited to submit a simplified report on the follow-up given in collective complaints where the ECSR has found a violation. These states are France, Greece, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Bulgaria, Ireland, Finland.

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.

States parties are invited to submit their national reports by 31 December 2022. Consequently, third party organisations such as trade unions, employers’ organisations, NGOs, national human rights institutions and national equality bodies can submit additional information to the European Committee of Social Rights by 30 June 2023.