37th Session

• Hemicycle
• Room 5
• Room 6
• Room 9

• Debates
• Bureau and Committees 
• Side events
• Participation of youth delegates in Congress activities

• Tuesday 29 October 2019: morning | afternoon
• Wednesday 30 October 2019:  Chamber of Local Authorities - morning | Chamber of Regions - morning | afternoon
• Thursday 31 October 2019: morning 

• Debates & Mediabox interviews

Tuesday 29 October 2019

• Request for Partner for Local Democracy status by the Tunisian Republic
• Communication by Anders Knape, President of the Congress
• Statement by Marija Pejčinović Burić, Secretary General of the Council of Europe
• Revision of the Congress Rules and Procedures
• The role of local and regional governments in protecting internally displaced persons (IDPs)
• Fair distribution of taxes in transfrontier areas: potential conflicts and possibilities for compromise
• Statement by Ivan Malenica, Minister of Public Administration of the Republic of Croatia
• Statement by Liliane Maury Pasquier, President of the Parliamentary Assembly
• Presentation of youth delegates’ grass-roots projects

Wednesday 30 October 2019

Chamber of Local Authorities

• Opening by the President of the Chamber
• Communication by the President of the Chamber
• Thematic debate: working conditions of local elected representatives – desperately looking for mayoral candidate
• Thematic debate: smart cities and cybersecurity

Chamber of Regions:

• Communication by the Chair
• The regional dimension in the future of Europe: what prospects?
• Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals: the role of regions
• Culture without borders: European cultural routes

Plenary sitting:

• Situation of local and regional democracy in Turkey - Report on the observation of local elections in Turkey (31 March 2019) including the Istanbul repeat mayoral election (23 June 2019) 
• Local and regional democracy in the Russian Federation 
• Statement by Sergei Bystrevskii, Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation
• Principles on the Protection and Promotion of the Ombudsman Institution (“The Venice Principles”)
• Partnership for local democracy
• Revised Code of Good Practice for Civil Participation in the Decision-Making Process

Thursday 31 October 2019

• The use of languages by local and regional authorities 
• Ceremony awarding the Congress medal to an honorary member
• Ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the Council of Europe 
• Local and regional democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Statement by Lejla Rešić, Minister for Administration and Local Self-Government, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina