Committee of Ministers
Comité des Ministres
Strasbourg, 3 May 1999 |
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CM(99)56 |
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For consideration at the 675th meeting of the Ministers Deputies |
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(15 June 1999, B level) |
EUROPEAN STEERING COMMITTEE FOR YOUTH (CDEJ)
23th meeting
Strasbourg, 16-18 March 1999
ABRIDGED REPORT
1. The European Steering Committee for Youth (CDEJ) held its 23rd meeting in Strasbourg from 16 to 18 March 1999. The agenda and the list of participants are appended (Appendices 1 and 2).
2. It adopted the report of its 22nd meeting and was informed that the hearing on Spanish youth policy was deferred to the October meeting.
3. Eight representatives were elected to the Programming Committee with respect to the criteria on geographical balance and gender equality.
4. The Committee approved the Bureau proposals concerning its composition and was informed about the developments of its 1999 programme, in particular those of its two working groups, the preparations for the 50th anniversary of the Council of Europe. It approved the holding of the « Summer University » in Georgia.
5. It heard a report on the outcome of meetings on setting up a network of national youth centres. This network and these centres should act as multipliers of the youth work of the European Youth Centres of Strasbourg and Budapest, raise the profile of the Council of Europes activities and function with criteria corresponding to the quality criteria applied to EYCs of Strasbourg and Budapest. The CDEJ decided that this activity should be a priority in the year 2000 programme.
6. The CDEJ also examined its year 2000 draft programme of activities and decided to maintain all the proposed activities, the cost of which is sensibly higher than that of this year activities, in order to show the Committee of Ministers the increase of its partnerships and activities and its budgetary consequences.
7. It then examined the proposals for priority activities of the youth sector for the year 2000 to be submitted to the Joint Council, based on the Declaration of the Conference of European Ministers responsible for Youth (Bucharest, 1998) and the Resolution (98) 6 of the Committee of Ministers. It also elaborated proposals for the terms of reference of the Programming Committee and decided, after the meeting between its Bureau and the Bureau of the Advisory Council, that the chair of the Joint Council and the vice-chair of the Programming Committee would be provided by the Chair of the CDEJ.
8. It also heard information on the state of co-operation with the other sectors of the Council of Europe. It was informed on the co-operation with the European Union in the framework of the first covenant on youth worker training signed with the European Union, which ends in April 1999, and nominated three CDEJ members to attend the evaluation meeting on the implementation of this first covenant (26-28 April 1999). This covenant should be renewed until April 2000.
9. The CDEJ expressed its wish to hold its next meeting, 13-15 October 1999, at the European Youth Centre in Budapest. As the meeting of the working group « Youth Participation and active democratic citizenship » is linked to the CDEJ meeting, it should also be held at the European Youth Centre in Budapest. Due to the meeting of the joint Council CDEJ/Advisory Committee, the latter also expressed the wish to hold its meeting in Budapest. Consequently, the CDEJ and the Advisory Committee ask the Committee of Ministers for the authorisation to hold the following meetings in Budapest :
- CDEJ Working group « Youth Participation and active democratic citizenship », 11-12 October 1999
- CDEJ : 13-15 October 1999
- Advisory Council : 13-15 October 1999
- Joint Council : 14 October 1999.
APPENDIX 1
Agenda
1. Opening of the meeting
2. Adoption of the draft agenda
3. Adoption of the draft report of the 22nd meeting held on 14-16 October 1998
4. Election of the eight members to the Programming Committee
5. Hearing on the youth policy in Spain
6. Implementation of the intergovernmental programme of activities and developments for the year 2000
7. Preparation of the joint Council on Youth Questions
8. Co-operation with the other sectors of the Council of Europe
9. Co-operation with the European Union
10. Other business
11. Date and place of the next meeting
APPENDIX 2
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
ALBANIA ALBANIE
Ms Vasilika VJERO, Ministria e Kultures, Rinise dhe Sporteve, Drejtoria e Kordinimit te Politikave Rinore, TIRANA
ANDORRA ANDORRE
M. Claude BENET, Ministère de lEducation, Jeunesse et Sports, ANDORRA LA VELLA
ARMENIA ARMENIE
Mr Armen SINANYAN, Ministry of Culture, Youth Affairs and Sport, YEREVAN
Mr Grigor TATOULYAN, Ministry of Culture, Youth Affairs and Sports, YEREVAN
AUSTRIA AUTRICHE
Ms. Maria WOLF, Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Jugend und Familie, WIEN
AZERBAIJAN AZERBAIDJAN
Mr Vougar IMAMALIEV, International Relations
Department of the Youth, BAKU
REPUBLIC OF BELARUS REPUBLIQUE DE BELARUS
Ms Yelena SHABALINA, Youth Affairs Committee of the Republic of Belarus, MINSK
BELGIUM BELGIQUE
M. Daniel MENSCHAERT, Direction Générale de la Culture et de la Communication, Ministère de la Communauté française, BRUXELLES
Ms. Raymonda VERDYCK, Administratie Cultuur, Afdeling Jeugdwerk, BRUXELLES
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
BOSNIE ET HERZEGOVINEProf. Dr. Nenad TANOVIC, Adviser for the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport,nOf FbiH, Head of the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Sarajevo
BULGARIA BULGARIE
Mr Atanas GEORGIEV Vice-President Committee for Youth, Physical Education and Sport, SOFIA
CROATIA CROATIE
Ms Ruzica TADIC, Head of the Department for Youth, State Bureau for the Protection of Family, MaternityAnd Youth, ZAGREB
CYPRUS CHYPRE
Mr Thrasos THRASYVOULOU, Youth Board NICOSIACZECH REPUBLIC
REPUBLIQUE TCHEQUEMr Frantisek KOVAR, Youth Department International Affairs, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, PRAHA 1
DENMARK DANEMARK
Mr Joachim CLAUSEN, Ministry of Education, COPENHAGEN
ESTONIA ESTONIE
Ms Kadi BRUUS, Adviser for Youth Department, Ministry of Education,TALLINN
FINLAND FINLANDE
Ms Ulla HELSINGIUS, Ministry of Education, HELSINKI
Ms Ulla-Kaisa AHO, Senior Advisor, Ministry of Education, HELSINKI
FRANCE
Mme Francine MEYER, Direction de la Jeunesse et de la Vie associative, Ministère de la Jeunesse et des Sports, PARIS
GEORGIA GEORGIE
Ms Liana GIORGADZE, First Secretary of the Department of Culture, Humanitarian and Partnership Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, GEORGIA
GERMANY ALLEMAGNE
Mr Norbert SCHNEEVOIGT, Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugen, BONN
GREECE GRECE
Ms Linda ATHANASSOULI, Ministry of Education, General Secretariat for Youth, ATHENS
Mrs Evi OTHITOU, Ministry of Education, General Secretariat for Youth, ATHENS
HOLY SEE SAINT SIEGE
R. Père Witold SOKOLOWSKI, S.J. Bureau de Bruxelles, BRUXELLES
HUNGARY HONGRIE
Ms Maria STARK-TENYINE, Ministry of Youth and Sports, BUDAPEST
ICELAND ISLANDE
Mr Erlendur KRISTJANSSON, Department of Youth and Sport, Ministry of Culture and Education, REYKJAVIK
IRELAND IRLANDE
Ms Maire MI FHLAITHBHEARTAIGH Youth Affairs Department of Education, Hawkins House DUBLIN
ITALY ITALIE
Mme Concetta DI STEFANO, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, Direction Culturelle (Echange de Jeunes), ROMA
LATVIA LETTONIE
Ms Solvita VEVERE, Ministry of Education and Science, RIGA
LIECHTENSTEIN
Apologised for absence / Excusé
LITHUANIA LITUANIE
Mr Vygintas APOKAS, State Council of Youth Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania, VILNIUS
LUXEMBOURG
M. Fr. Ch. MULLER, Service National de la Jeunesse, LUXEMBOURG
MALTA MALTE
Mr John DEMANUELE, Department of Youth and Sport, Parliamentary Secretariat for Youth and Sport, FLORIANA
MOLDOVA
Mr Andrei DRAGANCEA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, MOLDOVA
MONACO
Apologised for absence / Excusé
NETHERLANDS PAYS-BAS
Apologised for absence/Excusée
NORWAY NORVEGE
Mr Bjorn JAABERG HANSEN, Department for Child and Youth Policy, Royal Ministry of Children and Family Affairs, OSLO
Mr Finn Yrjar DENSTAD, Norwegian Youth Council (LNU), OSLO
POLAND POLOGNE
Mr Marek ROZYCKI, Adviser of Plenipotentiary of Polish Government for Family Affairs, WARSAW
Mr Robert MALLEK, Office of the Plenipotentiary of Polish Government for Family Affairs, WARSAW
PORTUGAL
Mr Paulo Antunes FERREIRA, Department of Support, Research and Planning of the State Secretaryof Youth Affairs, LISBON
ROMANIA ROUMANIE
Ms Adriana CIORBARU, Deputy Director of the International Relations Department, Ministry of Youth and Sport, BUCHAREST
RUSSIAN FEDERATION FEDERATION DE RUSSIE
Mr Yuri DETISTOV, International Department, R.F. State Committee on Youth, MOSCOW
SAN MARINO SAINT MARIN
Apologised for absence / Excusé
SLOVAK REPUBLIC
REPUBLIQUE SLOVAQUEMs Marta GALUSOVA, Department of Youth, Ministryof Education of the Slovak Republic, BRATISLAVA
SLOVENIA SLOVENIE
Mr Stanko SALAMON, Ministry of Education and Sport, Youth Department, LJUBLJANA
SPAIN ESPAGNE
Mrs Maria Luisa LOPEZ PENA , Institut de la Jeunesse, MADRID
SWEDEN SUEDE
Ms Astrid UTTERSTRÖM, Ministry of Culture, STOCKHOLM
SWITZERLAND SUISSE
M. Mario FRASA, Office fédéral de la Culture, Service de la Jeunesse, BERNE
THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA /LEX-REPUBLIQUE YOUGOSLAVE DE MACEDOINE
Apologised for absence/Excusé
TURKEY TURQUIE
Mr Fikri ALTAY, Service Education Consulat Général de Turquie, STRASBOURG
UKRAINE
Ms Tetiana BEZULIK, Ministry of Ukraine of Family and Youth Affairs, KYIV
UNITED KINGDOM ROYAUME-UNI
Mr Roger TROEDSON, Youth Service Unit, Department for Education and Employment, LONDON
PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE /ASSEMBLEE PARLEMENTAIRE DU CONSEIL DE LEUROPE
Apologised for absence/Excusé
CLRAE / CPLRE
Mr Riccardo VENTURINI Membre du Groupe Jeunesse du CPLRE, Borgo Maggiore
EUROPEAN COMMISSION / COMMISSION EUROPEENNE
Apologised for absence/excusé
OBSERVERS OBSERVATEURS
CANADA
Apologised for absence / Excusé
SECRETARIAT OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE /
SECRETARIAT DU CONSEIL DE LEUROPE
GREFFE DE LASSEMBLEE PARLEMENTAIRE /CLERK OF THE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY
Ms. Olga KOSTENKO, Commission on Culture and Education / Commission de la Culture et de lEducation
SECRETARIAT OF THE YOUTH DIRECTORATE / SECRETARIAT DE LA DIRECTION DE LA JEUNESSE
Mr Lasse SIURALA, Director responsible for Youth/Directeur Délégué à la Jeunesse
Ms Agneta DERRIEN, Principal Administrator/Administratrice principale
Mr André-Jacques DODIN, Principal Administrator/Administrateur principal
Mr Peter LAURITZEN, Executive Director of the EYCB / Directeur exécutif du CEJB
Ms Anne-Marie FARADJI, Administrator, Secretary of the Committee/Administratrice, Secrétaire du Comité