During its 131st plenary session, held in Venice on 17 and 18 June, the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe adopted, among others:
- the joint opinion of the Venice Commission and the Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law (DGI) of the Council of Europe on the Media Law of Azerbaijan;
- the opinion on the December 2021 amendments to the Organic Law on Common Courts of Georgia;
- joint opinion by the Venice Commission and the OSCE/ODIHR on the draft law on political parties of Mongolia;
- the opinion on the draft State Property Code of Tunisia, previously examined by the Sub-Commissions on Fundamental Rights and on the Mediterranean Basin at their joint meeting on 16 June 2022;
- the amicus curiae Brief for the Constitutional Court of Ukraine on the limits of subsequent (a posteriori) review of constitutional amendments by the Constitutional Court;
- the Explanatory Report of the Code of Good Practice on Referendums.
The Commission endorsed the Urgent Opinion on the constitutional and legislative framework on the referendum and elections announcements by the President of the Republic, and in particular on the decree-law n°22 of 21 April 2022 amending and completing the organic law on the independent high authority for elections of Tunisia (ISIE).
The Venice commission held exchanges of views with:
- Albulena Haxhiu, Minister of Justice of Kosovo;
- Henri El Khoury, Minister of Justice of Lebanon;
- Veronica Mihailov-Moraru, State Secretary, Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Moldova;
- Ömer Yılmaz, Deputy Head of Department, Department for Human Rights, Ministry of Justice of Türkiye;
- Robert Spano, President of the European Court of Human Rights;
- Matteo Mecacci, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR);
- Didier Reynders, European Commissioner for Justice;
- representatives of the Committee of Ministers, the Parliamentary Assembly and the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe.
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