Convention Du Conseil De L Europe Sur L Acc S Aux Documents Publics

Cette convention du Conseil de l'Europe est le premier instrument juridique international contraignant qui reconnaisse un droit général d'accès aux documents publics détenus par les autorités publiques. Elle établit un droit d'accès aux documents publics, énonce les normes minimales à appliquer dans le traitement des demandes d'accès aux documents publics (formes de l'accès et frais d'accès aux documents publics), le droit de recours et les mesures complémentaires. Établissant un socle commun de normes minimales, provenant des expériences et pratiques très différentes des 47 États membres du Conseil de l'Europe, la Convention offre la flexibilité nécessaire pour permettre aux législations nationales de s'appuyer sur ce socle commun et de prévoir un accès éventuellement plus étendu aux documents publics.

La Commission du droit international est un organe d’experts, composé de personnes possédant une compétence notoire en matière de droit international, qui œuvre au développement progressif et à la codification du droit international. Annuaire de la Commission du droit international: Volume I: Comptes rendus de séance; Volume II: Texte des principaux rapports établis au cours de l’année, y compris le rapport annuel à l’Assemblée générale.

Good Administration and the Council of Europe: Law, Principles, and Effectiveness examines the existence and effectiveness of written and unwritten standards of good administration developed within the framework of the Council of Europe (CoE) and in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. These standards - called 'pan- European general principles of good administration' - cover the entire range of general organizational, procedural, and substantive legal institutions meant to ensure a democratically legitimized, open, and transparent administration respecting the rule of law. They are about the 'limiting function' of administrative law: its function to protect individuals from arbitrary power, to legitimize administrative action, and to combat corruption. This book analyses the sources and functions of the pan-European general principles of good administration and seeks to uncover how deeply they are rooted in the domestic legal systems of the CoE Member States. It comprises 28 country reports dedicated to an in-depth exploration of the impact of these standards on the national legal systems of the Member States written by respective experts on these systems. It argues that the pan-European general principles of good administration lead to a certain harmonization of the legal orders of the Member States with regard to the limiting function of administrative law despite the many fundamental differences between their administrative and legal systems. It comes to the further conclusion that the pan-European general principles of good administration can be considered as a concretization of the founding values of the CoE and describes the 'administrative law obligations' a Member State entered into when joining the CoE.

Policy-Driven Democratization offers a comprehensive conceptual analysis of each one of these fuzzy terms separately to then sew them together in one complete and coherent package of democratization.

This volume of the "Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights," prepared by the Directorate of Human Rights of the Council of Europe, relates to 2002. Its presentation follows that of previous volumes. Part one contains basic texts and information of a general nature; part two deals with the European Commission of Human Rights; part three with the European Court of Human Rights; part four with the Resolutions of the Committee of Ministers; and parts five and six with the other work of the Council of Europe in the field of human rights, the situation in the Member States, and developments within the European Communities. A bibliography and index are included.