AS/Mon (2016) OJ 02

10 February 2016

amonoj02_2016

Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee)

Draft agenda

for the meeting to be held in PARIS

on 9 and 10 March 2016

(Council of Europe Office

55 avenue Kléber, Paris 16^e (métro: Boissière)

Phone: +33 (0)1 44 05 33 60, fax: +33 (0)1 47 27 36 47)

Wednesday 9 March 2016

From 9 am to noon:

1.       Draft agenda

          [AS/Mon (2016) OJ 02]

          Adoption of the draft agenda                            

2.       Draft minutes

             [AS/Mon (2016) PV 01]

          Approval of the draft minutes of the meeting held in Strasbourg on 25, 26 and 28 January 2016  

3.       Post-monitoring dialogue with Turkey

          Co-rapporteurs: Ms Ingebjørg Godskesen, Norway, EC, and Ms Nataša Vučković, Serbia, SOC

Hearing on the recent developments in southeast Turkey and the resumption of the peace process with the participation of the members of the Turkish delegation, a leader of the pro-Kurdish HDP party and a representative of Amnesty international

Meeting documents are published on the Parliamentary Assembly extranet website (restricted area for national delegations): http://assembly.coe.int/extranet.

From 2 pm to 5 pm:

4.       Preliminary draft reports on countries not under the monitoring procedure stricto sensu or engaged in a post-monitoring dialogue

            Rapporteur ex officio: Mr Cezar Florin Preda, Romania, EPP/CD

            [AS/Mon (2015)12 + AS/Mon (2016) 02, 03, 04 + Resolution 2018 (2014)]

            Consideration of preliminary draft reports on:

-          Austria

-          Czech Republic

-          France

Thursday 10 March 2016

from 9 am to noon:

5.      Post-monitoring dialogue with “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”

         Co-rapporteurs: Ms Lise Christoffersen, Norway, SOC, and Mr Valeriu Ghiletchi, Republic of           Moldova, EPP/CD

                [Programme]

          Oral report by the co-rapporteurs on their fact-finding visit to Skopje (15-18 February 2016)

6.      Ukraine

         Co-rapporteurs: Mr Jordi Xuclà, Spain, ALDE, and Mr Axel Fischer, Germany, EPP/CD

            [AS/Mon (2016)…]

         Consideration of an information note by the co-rapporteurs on their fact-finding visit to Kyiv (1-3 February 2016)

7.       Republic of Moldova

          Co-rapporteurs: Ms Valentina Leskaj, Albania, SOC, and Mr Ögmundur Jónasson, Iceland, UEL

                [Programme]

          Oral report by the co-rapporteurs on their fact-finding visit to Chisinau (22-23 February 2016)

8.       Azerbaijan

          Co-rapporteurs: Mr Stefan Schennach, Austria, SOC, and ….

Appointment of a co-rapporteur to replace Mr Agustín Conde (Spain, EPP/CD)

9.       Authorisation of fact-finding visits

10.     Other business

Information documents:

State of procedures                                                                                          

[AS/Mon/Inf (2016) 03]

Work programme                                                                                               

[AS/Mon/Inf (2016) 04]

11.     Next meetings

Strasbourg, 18-22 April 2016 (during the Assembly part-session)

Paris, 23 May 2016 (to be confirmed)

Strasbourg, 20-24 June 2016 (during the Assembly part-session)

Tirana, September 2016 (to be confirmed and subject to authorisation of the Assembly Bureau)

Strasbourg, 10-14 October 2016 (during the Assembly part-session)

Paris, 9 November 2016 (to be confirmed)

Paris, 14 December 2016 (to be confirmed)

** from 2.00 pm to 5.30 pm: Meeting of the ad hoc Sub-Committee on Conflicts between Member States of the Council of Europe (see separate draft agenda)