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Council of Europe’s Action to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings. Background Documents

Document number
1779
Date
2008
Title
Council of Europe’s Action to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings. Background Documents
Author/publisher
Committee of Ministers, Council of Europe
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Document type(s)
Meeting Documentation/Conference Reports,
Keywords
Ministers’ Deputies Information documents, CM/Inf(2008)28 9 June 2008, European Convention On Human Rights, Council of Europe Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings,
Summary
Article 36(4) of the Convention stipulates that the election procedure of the members of GRETA shall be determined by the Committee of Ministers, with the unanimous consent of the Parties, within a period of one year following the entry into force of the CETS No 197.It follows from Article 37(2) and (3) that the Committee of the Parties shall meet within a period of one year following the entry into force, adopt its own rules of procedure and elect the members of GRETA.According to Article 36(4) GRETA shall adopt its own rules of procedure. Article 38(1) and (2) stipulate that GRETA shall determine the length of rounds for the evaluation procedure, select the specific provisions on which each round shall be based and adopt a questionnaire addressed to all Parties.Therefore the future activities in 2008 and 2009 will be the following:· Adoption of the Resolution on rules on the election procedure of the members of theGroup of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) by the Committee of Ministers on 11 June 2008· The Parties2 to the CETS No. 197 nominate their candidates for GRETA and the procedure established by the Committee of Ministers is implemented· The Committee of the Parties meets for the first time in December 2008 or on 31 January 2009 at the latest, adopt its rules of procedure and elect the members of GRETA in its first composition· First meeting of GRETA (February 2009)· GRETA will adopt its own rules of procedure· GRETA will determine the length of rounds for the evaluation procedure· GRETA will select the specific provisions on which each round shall be based· GRETA may adopt a questionnaire addressed to all Parties for the first evaluation round
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