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PACE Standing Committee makes amendments to monitoring procedure

31 May 2013 14:01 (UTC +04:00)

The Monitoring Committee will henceforth present, at least once every three years, a report on each country being monitored or involved in post-monitoring dialogue (under the current rules, a report must be presented every two years for the States subject to a monitoring procedure, and every four years for the States engaged in post-monitoring dialogue).

Another amendment entails the setting of a two-year time limit for the examination by the Monitoring Committee of an application to open or reopen a monitoring procedure (this is the common deadline imposed on committees seized for a report). Finally, the Monitoring Committee will be allowed to prepare reports on the functioning of democratic institutions in a member State, on the basis of a motion for a resolution or for a recommendation.

10 of 47 member states of the Council of Europe - Azerbaijan, Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, Russia, Serbia and Ukraine are undergoing monitoring. Bulgaria, Monaco, Macedonia and Turkey are involved in post-monitoring dialogue.