Chronology of the Meetings of the Praesidium of the Charter Convention

• Author: Coghlan, Niall; Steiert, Marc
• Pages: 47-48

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Praesidium

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Agenda Substance/Comments

17 January 4107/00 1st Praesidium meeting. Renamed ‘Praesidium’.

Rules, ‘Convention’ name discussed, Timetable.

1 February No record 2nd Praesidium Meeting. No record.1

24 February No record SN 1538/00 3rd Praesidium Meeting. No record.

2 March 4148/00 4th Praesidium meeting.2 Hearing certain NGO

representatives and setting working methods.

7 March 4210/00 5th Praesidium meeting. In Paris with French

Minister of European Affairs. Not all Praesidium

members present.

20 March 4211/00 SN 1949/00 6th Praesidium meeting. Méndez de Vigo

chairing. Reviewing civil and political rights,

including 8 March draft.

27 March 4209/00 SN 2057/00 7th Praesidium meeting. Agreement on

economic and social rights.

17 April 4305/00 8th Praesidium meeting. Observers of the

Council of Europe spoke. Economic and social

and horizontal drafts reviewed.

3-4 May 4307/00 SN 2595/00 9th Praesidium meeting. Revised civil, political

and citizens’ rights.

11 May No record SN 2665/00 10th Praesidium Meeting. No record.

22 May No record 11th Praesidium Meeting. No record.

25 May No record SN 2785/00 12th Praesidium Meeting. Drafting Committee.

31 May No record SN 2785/00 13th Praesidium Meeting. No record.

19 June No record SN 2785/00 14th Praesidium Meeting. No record.

28 June (9-12:30) No record SN 3295/00 15th Praesidium Meeting. No record.

28 June (19-24:00) No record SN 3295/00 15th Praesidium Meeting. Continued.

No record.

10 July No record SN 3295/00 16th Praesidium Meeting. No record.

17 July No record SN 3295/00 17th Praesidium Meeting. No record.

1 Norbert Bernsdorff and Martin Borowsky, Die Charta der Grundrechte der Europäischen Union Handreichungen und

Sitzungsprotokolle (Nomos, Baden-Baden 2002), p.125.

2 This is its title. There is no record of any second Praesidium meeting.

3. Chronology of the Meetings

of the Praesidium of the Charter

Convention

CHRONOLOGY OF THE MEETINGS OF THE PRAESIDIUM OF THE CHARTER CONVENTION