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

Draft agenda

of the meeting to be held in camera in PARIS on Wednesday, 11 December 2019 from 9.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.

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Wednesday, 11 December 2019 from 9.30 am to 1.00 pm

1. Draft agenda [AS/Mon (2019) OJ 09]

Adoption of the draft agenda

2. Draft minutes [AS/Mon (2019) PV 08]

Approval of the draft minutes of the meeting held in Paris on 13 November 2019

This draft agenda, addressed to members of the Committee, is the convocation to the meeting.

1 It also constitutes the invitations foreseen in Resolution 1115 (1997), paragraph 10.

Copy to Secretaries of national delegations and of political groups

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

1 Resolution 1115, paragraph 10: "When a monitoring procedure is initiated, two members of the parliamentary delegation of the member state concerned (to represent the governing majority and the opposition) shall be invited to take part, without the right to vote, in the relevant debates of the committee unless one or both are already represented on the committee. By analogy with Rule 6, paragraph 8, no member of the parliamentary delegation of the member state concerned shall participate in a vote on any question concerning this state."

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3. Follow-up to the opinion on the report on Establishment of a European Union mechanism on democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights Rapporteur for opinion: Mr Andrej Šircelj, Slovenia, EPP/CD [Doc. 14850 - report] [Doc. 14860 – opinion]

Exchange of views with Mr Michael O’Flaherty, Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) (video link) [9.40 am – 10.45 am]

4. Co-rapporteurs: Mr Anne Mulder, , ALDE and…

Appointment of a new co-rapporteur to replace Mr Ionuț-Marian Stroe (Romania, EPP/CD)

Exchange of views with Mr Nikola Markovic, President of the Commission for monitoring actions of the competent authorities in the investigation of cases of threats and violence against journalists, murders of journalists and attacks on media property of Montenegro

5. Montenegro Co-rapporteurs: Mr Anne Mulder, Netherlands, ALDE and… [AS/Mon (2019) ***]

Consideration of a preliminary draft report on post-monitoring dialogue with Montenegro

6. Azerbaijan Co-rapporteurs: Mr Stefan Schennach, Austria, SOC, and Sir Roger Gale, United Kindgom, EC!DA [Letters]

Exchange of views with Ms Thorhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC), rapporteur of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights on Reported cases of political prisoners in Azerbaijan (tbc)

Wednesday, 11 December 2019 from 2.30 pm to 5.30 pm

7. Poland Co-rapporteurs: Ms Azadeh Rojhan Gustafsson, Sweden, SOC and Mr , Netherlands, EPP/CD [AS/Mon (2019) ***]

Consideration of a draft report and adoption of a draft resolution on the functioning of democratic institutions in Poland

8. The progress of the Assembly’s monitoring procedure (January-December 2019) Rapporteur: Sir Roger Gale, United Kingdom, EC/DA [AS/Mon (2019) ***]

Consideration of draft report and adoption of a draft resolution

9. Spain

Hearing on recent developments in the country (tbc)

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10. Republic of Moldova Co-rapporteurs: Mr Egidijus Vareikis, Lithuania, EPP/CD and Ms Maryvonne Blondin, France, SOC

Exchange of views on recent developments in the country (tbc)

11. Armenia Co-rapporteurs: Mr Andrej Šircelj, Slovenia, EPP/CD and… [AS/Mon/List (2019) ***]

Appointment of a new co-rapporteur to replace Ms Yuliya Lovochkina (Ukraine, SOC)

12. North Macedonia Co-rapporteurs: Ms Lise Christoffersen, Norway, SOC and … [AS/Mon/List (2019) ***]

Appointment of a new co-rapporteur to replace Mr Aleksander Pociej (Poland, EPP/CD)

13. Authorisation of fact-finding visits

14. Other business

Monitoring Committee: Work overview [AS/Mon/Inf (2019) 19]

15. Next meetings

Strasbourg, 27-31 January 2020 (during the Assembly part-session) Ankara, March 2020 (tbc and subject to the authorisation by the Bureau) Strasbourg, 20-24 April 2020 (during the Assembly part-session) Paris, *** May 2020 (tbc) Strasbourg, 22-26 June 2020 (during the Assembly part-session) Paris, 8 September 2020 (tbc) Strasbourg, 12-16 October 2020 (during the Assembly part-session) Paris, 16 November 2020 (tbc) Paris, 10 December 2020 (tbc)

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