GR-H - Human Rights
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DisconnectMain fields of activity
- Effective implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights at European and national level (CDDH)
- Environment (CDDH, GME)
- Human rights in the fields of biomedicine and health (CDBIO)
- Anti-discrimination, diversity and inclusion (CDADI)
- Media and Information society (CDMSI)
- Gender equality (GEC)
- European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT): elections
- National Minorities
- Racism and intolerance - ECRI: appointments
- Death penalty
- Council of Europe Conferences of specialised ministers in this field - follow-up
- Replies to Assembly and Congress recommendations in this field
Chair: Ambassador Helge SELAND, Permanent Representative of Norway
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Many of the documents relating to the work of the Committee of Ministers (CM) are classified "restricted" at the date of issue, which means that only the governments of member and observer States and the Secretariat of the Council of Europe have access to them. The majority of these documents are declassified immediately after the meeting at which they are examined by the CM, although certain documents may remain classified for one year from the date of issue.
Documents prepared by the Ministers’ Deputies' working groups (GR-C, GR-DEM, etc.) are usually classified "restricted" for one year from the date of issue.
Very rarely, a document may be classified “confidential" at the date of issue, which means that only member State governments have access to it. Confidential documents are declassified after 10 years.
The texts currently in force on access to documents are CM/Del/Dec(1998)641/1.3 and CM/Del/Dec(2000)735/1.5a, para. 7.