AUTUMN SESSION
(Moscow, 13-15 November 2006)

STANDING COMMITTEE
INSTITUTIONAL COMMITTEE

PUBLIC MEETING

DRAFT AGENDA - CG/SA(13)OJ1prov.
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Autumn Institutional Session

Joint meeting of the Standing Committee and the Institutional Committee
14 November 2006 (3 – 6.30 pm approx.) – Concert Hall

Organised in Moscow in the framework of the Russian Presidency
of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe
(19 May – 15 November 2006)

President Hotel
24 B. Yakimanka str. 119134 MOSCOW
Russian Federation
Tel +7 495 239 38 00 – Fax +7 495 230 23 18

1. OPENING SPEECHES

 

· Halvdan SKARD (Norway, L, SOC),

Congress President

· Sergey MIRONOV, Chairman of the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

 
   

2. AGENDA

 

Adoption of the draft agenda

[CG/SA(13)OJ1prov.]

   

3. NATIONAL PROJECTS FOR A SUSTAINABLE SOCIO- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AT LOCAL AND REGIONAL LEVELS

 

· Statement by Dmitry MEDVEDEV, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

 

· Debate

 
   

4. RUSSIAN CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE

(May – November 2006)

 

· Statement by Sergueï LAVROV, Chair of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

 

· Debate

 
   

5. STATEMENT OF Yuri LUZHKOV, MAYOR OF MOSCOW

 

· Debate

 
   

6. 15th SESSION OF THE CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN MINISTERS RESPONSIBLE FOR LOCAL AND REGIONAL GOVERNMENT

(15 and 16 October 2007, Valencia, Spain)

[CDLR(2006)61]

· Statement by José M. RODRIGUEZ ÁLVAREZ, President of the Steering Committee for Local and Regional democracy (CDLR), Councillor of the Secretary of State for territorial co-operation, Spain

 

· Debate

 
   

7. PRESENTATION OF A PRO-MERITO MEDAL OF THE CONGRESS

 

· to Jan MANS, former member of the Dutch delegation to the Congress

[CurriculumVitae]

   

8. REPORTS SUBMITTED FOR EXAMINATION AND

ADOPTION ON BEHALF OF THE CONGRESS

(Article 8 of the Congress Charter and Article 15.6

of the Congress Rules of Procedure)

 

8.1 Decentralisation and strengthening of local authorities

United Nations Human Settlements Programme
(UN-HABITAT) draft guidelines

Presentation by the Rapporteur:

Ian MICALLEF (Malta, L, EPP/CD)

 

Contributions of:

 

· Alain-Clément KANYINDA, Coordinator of the Local Governments Programme at UN-HABITAT and Secretary to the Advisory Group of Experts on Decentralisation

on behalf of Anna Kajumulo TIBAIJUKA, Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of UN-HABITAT

 

· Dr Heinrich HOFFSCHULTE (Germany), member of the Group of Experts on Decentralisation

 

Debate

 

Examination and vote on the draft Recommendation and Resolution by the members of the Standing Committee

[CG(13)31REC]

[CG(13)31RES]

8.2 Local and Regional democracy in ALBANIA

Presentation by the Rapporteurs:

Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe (Belgium, R, SOC) and Guido Rhodio (Italy, L, EPP/CD)

 

Debate

 

Examination and vote on the draft Recommendation by the members of the Standing Committee

[CG(13)29REC]

[CG(13)29PART2]

8.3 Local and Regional democracy in BOSNIA- HERZEGOVINA

Presentation by the Rapporteurs:

Christopher Newbury (United Kingdom, L, EPP/CD) and Karsten Behr (Germany, R, EPP/CD)

Debate

Examination and vote on the draft Recommendation by the members of the Standing Committee

[CG(13)30REC]

[CG(13)30PART2]

   

9. CLOSING OF THE SESSION

 

By Halvdan SKARD (Norway, L, SOC),

Congress President