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Council of Europe: Protocol Amending the European Social Charter Providing for a System of Collective Complaints

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

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Treaties and Agreements
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Copyright ©American Society of International Law 1995

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[Reproduced from the text provided by the Council of Europe. As of November 29, 1995, seven member states of the Council of Europe have signed the 1995 Additional Protocol to the European Social Charter Providing for a System of Collective Complaints: Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Portugal, and Sweden. The Introductory Note was prepared for International Legal Materials by A. Zimmermann, Dr. jur., Research fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public and Public International Law, Heidelberg, Germany.

[A note discussing the 1988 Additional Protocol to the European Social Charter appears at 27 I.L.M. 575 (1988). The 1991 Protocol Amending the European Social Charter and accompanying Introductory Note discussing the Protocol appear at 31 I.L.M. 155 (1992). A list of States having signed or ratified the European Social Charter, the Additional Protocol to the European Social Charter, and the Protocol Amending the European Social Charter appears at 34 I.L.M. 1714 (1995). The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is reproduced at 6 I.L.M. 360 (1967).

[For additional information contact the Council of Europe, F-67075 Strasbourg Cedex, France (tel.: (33)(88) 41 20 00; fax: (33)(88) 41 27 91).]

References

1 European Social Charter, 529 U.N.T.S. 89; Europ. T.S. No. 35 (1961).

2 Id. arts. 1-4, 9-10.

3 Id. arts. 7, 8, 15, 18, 19.

4 Id. arts. 5, 6.

5 Id. arts. 11-14.

6 Id. arts. 16, 17.

7 Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

8 Albania, Andorra, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland.

9 For a complete overview of the system, see D. J. Harris, The European Social Charter (1984) passim.

10 Additional Protocol to the European Social Charter, Europ. T.S. No. 128 (1988).

11 Protocol Amending the European Social Charter, Europ. T.S. No. 142 (1991).

12 Austria, Cyprus, Finland, France, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Sweden.

13 See W. Strasser, European Social Charter, in 1 Encyclopedia of Public International Law 291 et seq. (R.Bernhardt ed., Libr. ed.).