Standing Committee meets in Paris
Debates on the need to eradicate statelessness of children, the
libraries and museums of Europe in times of change, and the Draft
Council of Europe Convention on Cinematographic Co-production will
feature on the agenda of the Standing Committee of the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) at its meeting in Paris on
Friday 4 March 2016.
After the opening of the
meeting by PACE President Pedro Agramunt, the parliamentarians will hold
an exchange of views with Gianni Buquicchio, President of the European
Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission).
The Standing Committee meeting, which is open to the press, will be
held from 9.30 am to 1.30 pm at the Assemblée nationale (Salle
Lamartine), 101 rue de l'Université, Paris 7ème (Metro station:
Invalides / Assemblée nationale).
The Standing
Committee, which acts on the Assembly's behalf between plenary sessions,
is made up of the President and Vice-Presidents of the Assembly, the
chairpersons of political groups, the chairpersons of national
delegations and the committee chairpersons, totaling some 60
parliamentarians from the Council of Europe's 47 member States.
