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Ministers' Deputies Notes on the Agenda CM/Notes/722/4.4 Addendum 20 September 2000 ———————————————— 722 Meeting, 21 September 2000 4 Human rights 4.4 European Ministerial Conference on Human Rights (Rome, 3-4 November 2000) b. Advisability of addressing a Committee of Ministers message to the Conference Proposal from the Italian Chair
The draft text proposed by the Italian Chair is appended to this addendum.
722nd meeting – 21 September 2000
Appendix
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Draft
declaration Proposal of the Italian Chair
The Committee of Ministers,
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the opening for signature of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (hereinafter “the Convention”) in Rome on 4 November 1950,
Taking pride in the facts that the Council of Europe has achieved a uniquely effective system for the collective protection of human rights through a judicial mechanism rendering legally binding decisions, that this system has found its place is the constitutional order of the majority of the member states and that it constitutes – and must continue to constitute – the basic reference for the protection of human rights in Europe;
Noting nonetheless that this pride must not be the occasion for complacency, and that constant effort is necessary to ensure that the Convention and its organs continue to guarantee the protection of the human rights of all persons falling within the jurisdiction of the High Contracting Parties;
Believing that this system can only function at its best with the political will of all the member states of the Council of Europe;
Stressing the importance of the role assigned to it by the Convention and its overall responsibility for the development of the rights protected and for the conditions of exercise of the European Court of Human Rights,
1. Undertakes to pursue its task, provided under the Convention, of supervising the execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in full consciousness of its influence in obtaining necessary progress in the adjustment of national legislation, regulations and practice with a view to effectively preventing future violations or to restoring individual applicants to their rights and to this end expresses its determination to keep its procedures under review;
2. Renews its commitment to pursuing, notably through the Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH) and its subsidiary bodies, the process of reflection on the development of the rights protected by the Convention and its Protocols so that they may duly reflect the evolution of society,
3. Further undertakes to continue to promote conditions in which the organs of the Convention may exercise their functions effectively. In this connection, it urges member states to establish mechanisms to deal with human rights applications at national level on the basis of the Convention and the jurisprudence of its organs.
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