Vesna Crnić-Grotić, former Chair and current member of the Committee of Experts of the Charter was selected as one of the 75 women who have contributed to the Organisation’s goal throughout history by upholding democracy, human rights and the rule of law across Europe and beyond. The awareness-raising project, co-organised by the EU delegation to the Council of Europe and the Permanent Representations of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, was launched in March on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Council of Europe and has featured over several months inspiring women’s portraits and stories on social media. Vesna Crnić-Grotić’s portrait was presented on 26 March and her remarkable contribution to the monitoring process of the Charter and the work of its Committee of Experts put forward.

2024 started off with two on-the-spot visits: in January, a delegation of the Committee of Experts travelled to Spain to meet with the representatives of regional and minority languages speakers and authorities. In February, the COMEX visited the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man in the frame of the sixth monitoring cycle. In June, a visit to Cyprus took place. Four evaluation reports were published during the first semester of 2024: the 6th evaluation report on Denmark in January 2024, the 5th evaluation report on Czechia and the 7th evaluation report on Croatia in May, and the 6th evaluation on Finland in June. In addition, the evaluations by the Committee of Experts of the implementation of the recommendations for immediate action contained in the Committee of Experts’ 8th evaluation report on Sweden, 7th evaluation report on the Netherlands and 7th evaluation report on Germany were adopted and published.

The Charter brochure released in 2023, which presents the treaty itself, the work of the Committee of Experts and the monitoring process in a nutshell, has been translated in more languages to reach an even wider public. In addition to the English and French versions, it is now available in German and Italian. Translations into Hungarian, Romanian, Spanish and Ukrainian are currently underway and more language versions are to follow soon.