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Withdrew from Council membership on 12 December 1969 due to the Greek case during the military dictatorship. After the fall of the junta, Greece re-joined the Council of Europe on 28 November 1974. See Greece in the Council of Europe. Iceland: Reykjavík: 7 March 1950 [4] [5] Turkey: Ankara: 13 April 1950 [6] [7] Germany: Berlin: 13 July 1950 ...
The Council of Europe Convention on Access to Official Documents, usually known as the Tromsø Convention, was signed on 18 June 2009 in the Norwegian city of Tromsø.It entered into force on 1 December 2020 after it had been ratified by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on 20 May 2020.
The Service Regulation, officially the Council Regulation (EC) No. 1393/2007 on the service in the Member States of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters, is a European Union regulation in the field of judicial cooperation. [1]
The Council of Europe is an official United Nations observer. [8] Unlike the EU, the Council of Europe cannot make binding laws; however, the council has produced a number of international treaties, including the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (European Convention on Human Rights, ECHR) of 1953.
The convention is open for signature by the member States of the Council of Europe and the non-member States which have participated in its elaboration and for accession by other non-member States. The Convention came into force on 1 March 2000 after ratification by 3 countries.
It states that any country that wishes to leave must send a notification to the Council of Europe's Secretary General, and the country’s membership would be rescinded by the end of the year. As of March 2022, there have been two countries that have formally left the Council of Europe. The first one was Greece on 12 December 1969.
Likewise, authorities in Strasbourg and organisations based there refer to Strasbourg as the "capital" of Europe [19] [20] [21] (often wider Europe due to the presence of the Council of Europe there as well) and Brussels, Strasbourg and Luxembourg City are also referred to as the joint capitals of Europe, for example in relation to the "EuroCap ...
It was established in 1999 as an enlarged partial agreement by 17 Council of Europe member states. GRECO, which is also open to non-European states, currently has 49 members (47 European states, Kazakhstan and the United States of America). [1] [2] [a] Since August 2010, all Council of Europe members have been members of GRECO. Membership in ...