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COE IN BRIEF

Purpose:  Promoting Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law

Entity:  Intergovernmental Organisation

Founding year:  1949

Member states:  46

Based in:  Strassburg/France

Working languages:  EN, FR

Secretary General: Alain Berset

Decision-making body:  Committee of Ministers (=Foreign ministers of the member states)

Consultative bodies:  Parliamentary Assembly; Congress of Local and Regional Authorities; Conference of INGOs; Commissioner for Human Rights

Main legal instrument:  European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)

Legal basis:  European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) plus more than 200 Conventions, Additional Protocols and Partial Agreements

Ordinary annual budget: € 385mio
(of which Court: € 85 mio)

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