RESOLUTION (54) 26 (19 December 1954) – (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers at its 15th Session)

Role of the Council of Europe

The Committee of Ministers,

Being desirous that the specific function of the Council of Europe in the system of

inter-governmental collaboration among European countries should be better defined;

Reaffirming that the task of the Council of Europe is, among other things, to

serve as the general framework of European policy;

Considering that for this purpose it is necessary to enable the Assembly to

fulfil more effectively its consultative role,

Resolves:

1. to refer to the Ministers' Deputies the speech of the Chairman of the Committee

and the remarks made by the other members of the Committee during the

meeting of the 19th December, 1954, with a view to extracting there from such

conclusions as will improve the methods of work of the Committee of Ministers and

establish closer relations with the Consultative Assembly;

2. to invite Member Governments to put forward their suggestions for the establishment

of a list of questions which might usefully be submitted to the Consultative

Assembly for its opinion;

3. to invite the Deputies, when engaged in this study, to take account of the

Special Message of the Committee of Ministers to the Consultative Assembly on the

Programme of Work (Doc. 238) with a view to determining, on the plane of intergovernmental

collaboration between the member countries, what should be the position

of the Council of Europe in relation to other European organisations.