The agenda of the Standing Committee will include reports on reinforcing measures against sex offenders, the European civil aviation industry confronted with the global financial and economic crisis, geothermal energy: a local answer to a hot topic and noise and light pollution.

Other topics of discussion will be the preparation of a code of good practice in the field of political parties, gender budgeting as a tool for safeguarding women’s health, reinforcing the effectiveness of Council of Europe treaty law, the draft third Additional Protocol to the European Convention on Extradition and the expenditure of the Parliamentary Assembly for the 2011 financial year.

PROGRAMME


Thursday 20 May 2010

11:00 Meeting of the Presidential Committee (Constitutional Hall - National Assembly)

13:00 – 14:30 Working lunch of the Presidential Committee (Hotel Holiday Inn - restaurant Iris)

15:00 – 19:00 Meeting of the Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly
(“Cristal Hall” - National Assembly)

19:30 Departure to Saint Pantelejmon Monastery Complex

20:00 Dinner hosted by Mr Trajko Veljanoski, President of the National Assembly (Saint Pantelejmon Monastery Complex)


Friday 21 May 2010

9:00 – 12:30 Meeting of the Standing Committee
(“Cristal Hall” – National Assembly)

On the agenda in the morning, inter alia:

- Welcome speech by Mr Trajko Veljanoski, President of the National Assembly

- Exchange of views with Mr Antonio Miloshoski, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Chairperson of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe

12:45 – 14:00 Lunch hosted by Mr Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, in the presence of H.E. President Gorge Ivanov, (Hotel Holiday Inn – room Millennium II)

14:15 –16.30 Meeting of the Standing Committee (continuation)

16:30 Visit of the Memorial House of Mother Teresa

19:00 Reception hosted by Mr Antonio Miloshoski, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Chairperson of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (Parliamentarian’s Club, National Assembly)http://assembly.coe.int/http://assembly.coe.int/http://assembly.coe.int/