Key documents

E-voting

. Recommendation Rec (2004)11 on legal,

  operational and technical standards for

  e-voting

. E-voting handbook - implementation of

  e-enabled elections

. Guidelines on certification of e-voting

  systems

. Guidelines on transparency of e-enabled

  elections

. Reports of biennial Reviews 2008 and

  2010

. Council of Europe studies on e-voting

. National developments on e-voting

 

E-democracy

. Recommendation (2009)1 on

  e-democracy and Explanatory

  memorandum

  (PdF version   -  Word version)

. Practical tools to Rec(2009)1

. Glossary of technical terms in the field

  of electronic democracy

 

Internet governance

. Recommendation (2004)15 and

  explanatory memorandum

 

UN WSIS/ IGF

Texts submitted by the Council of Europe

for:

. IGF 2010

. IGF 2009

. IGF 2008

. WSIS 2005

. WSIS 2003

 

Internet literacy

Internet literacy handbook

 

. Highway to democr@cy – the Council of

  Europe and the information society

. Guarding the watchdog – the Council of

  Europe and the media 

Political Parties

In October 2002 the Integrated Project “Making democratic institutions work” (IP1), organised an expert workshop to take stock of the work already undertaken by the Council of Europe relating to the transparency of the financing of political parties and their democratic functioning and to investigate possibilities for future work, including the production of a manual on this subject.

- Financing political parties and election campaigns – guidelines
By Ingrid van Biezen

- Expert workshop on “Transparency of the financing of political parties and their democratic functioning” - Strasbourg, 18 October 2002
. Agenda
. Report
. List of participants

- Non-exhaustive list of documents relating to the financing of political parties

- “The Financial Transparency of Political Parties and Their Democratic Functioning at Regional Level”
Explanatory memorandum by Rapporteur Claude HAEGI (Switzerland)
Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe – Chamber of Regions - Seventh session (Strasbourg, 23-25 May 2000)

- “The Political Integrity of Local and Regional Elected Representatives”
Explanatory memorandum by Rapporteur Viorel Coifan (Roumania)
Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe – Chamber of Regions - Seventh session session (Strasbourg, 15-17 juin 1999)