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EUROPEAN COMMITTEE ON CRIME PROBLEMS
(CDPC)

Bureau
(CDPC-BU)

SUMMARY OF REPLIES ON COE SURVEY OF THE CDPC

CDPC website: www.coe.int/cdpc
CDPC courriel: dgi.cdpc@coe.int
COMMITTEE SUMMARY
Questionnaire to be addressed to members of
steering and ad hoc committees of the Council of Europe

Name of Committee: European Committee on Crime Problems (CDPC)

Total Number of Members of the Committee: 47 Number of answers to the Questionnaire: 14

Responsible at the Secretariat of the Committee: Carlo Chiaromonte

DG, Division: DGHL, Criminal Law Division

Box to be filled in by the Secretariat of the Committee when writing the synthesis of all answers

a) Provide brief background information on the original setting up of the Committee. Indicate the validity
period of its last mandate.

Set up in 1958, the European Committee on Crime Problems (CDPC) was entrusted by the Committee of
Ministers the responsibility for overseeing and coordinating the Council of Europe’s activities in the field of
crime prevention and crime control.

The CDPC identifies priorities for intergovernmental legal co-operation, makes proposals to the Committee of
Ministers on activities in the fields of criminal law and procedure, criminology and penology, and implements
these activities.

The CDPC elaborates conventions, agreements, recommendations and reports. It organises criminological
research conferences, criminological colloquia, and conferences of directors of prison administration.

Its last mandate is valid until 31 December 2010.

b) List the subordinate bodies of this committee active during its last mandate. State their main purpose.

Committee of Experts on the Operation of European Conventions in the Penal Field (PC-OC)
- Elaborates ways to improve international co-operation in criminal matters and identify solutions
to practical problems encountered in the application of Council of Europe conventions in the
criminal law field (eg, extradition, mutual legal assistance, the transfer of sentenced persons).

Council for Penological Co-operation (PC-CP)
- A standing advisory body to the CDPC dealing with questions related to prisons and developing
European standards, including the European Prison Rules and the Council of Europe Probation
Rules and other recommendations on juveniles offenders, education in prison, prison staff,
health care in prison and prison overcrowding.

Conference of Directors of Prison Administration (CDAP)
- The regular CDAP are held in Strasbourg and organised by the Council of Europe. The holding
of ad hoc CDAP conferences in different hosting member-states offers an opportunity to inform a
larger audience about the work carried out by the Organisation in the penal field.

Group of Specialists on Counterfeit Pharmaceutical Products (PC-S-CP)
- Reported on the feasibility of an international legal instrument in the field of counterfeiting of
medical products and similar crimes. It held six meetings in Strasbourg to prepare the draft
Convention on Counterfeit Pharmaceutical Products and Similar Crimes Involving Threats to
Public Health. The last meeting, at which a draft text of the convention was adopted, took place
on 2 – 4 February 2009. The terms of reference of the PC-S-CP expired on 28 February 2009.

Ad Hod Committee on Counterfeiting of Medical Products and Similar Crimes involving Threats to Public
Health (PC-ISP)

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- A new plenary committee with the participation of all member states, observers and other
international organisations was created to negotiate and finalise the convention. The draft
convention was approved by the CDPC at its plenary in October 2009.

Group of Specialists on Child-friendly Justice (CJ-S-CH)
- Drafting of a recommendation on child-friendly justice in civil, administrative and criminal law
areas, ensuring effective access to justice for children.

Total
answers

High 5 4 3 2 1 Low
1. Has the committee’s work been useful in view of the
elaboration of the national legislation (laws, regulations, Nbr % Nbr % Nbr % Nbr % Nbr % 14
and directives) and/or public debate?
3 7 4

High 5 4 3 2 1 Low
2. Was the committee’s work useful in your country for
professionals dealing with questions falling within the Nbr % Nbr % Nbr % Nbr % Nbr % 14
committee’s competence?
2 9 2 1

Implicit affirmative answers Implicit negative answers
3. Do you think there was an overlapping of the work of
the Council of Europe in the field of your committee,
Nbr % Nbr % 10
with the work carried out by other international
organisations?
7 3

High 5 4 3 2 1 Low
4. Do the meetings of the committee (plenary meetings,
Bureau, meetings of subordinate bodies, …) function in Nbr % Nbr % Nbr % Nbr % Nbr % 13
an efficient way?
2 9 2

5. To what extent would it be possible to obtain similar High 5 4 3 2 1 Low
results by having less plenary and more meetings of
Nbr % Nbr % Nbr % Nbr % Nbr % 13
the Bureau or subordinate bodies or by using other
means of communication?
2 1 6 4

Include scientific experts in criminology in a sustainable (not
ad hoc) way.
More concrete preparatory work by consultants or small work
groups.
Occasional questionnaires on particular subjects could be
useful.
6. With the same budget, what improvements do you More studies or scientific researches.
suggest to raise the efficiency and relevance of the Fewer subjects on the agenda of subordinate committees.
committee’s work (for example with regard to topics Shorter plenary meetings but twice per year instead of once 12
addressed, length of agendas, documents, working Avoid leaving “minor” subjects to the last half day.
methods, ministerial conferences, …)? More precise time-keeping on legislative issues at the
beginning of the week in order not to reduce time devoted to
other issues at the end of the week.
Length of agendas should not be too long.
Les choix budgétaire, associé à la volonté de faire aboutir trop
vite certains travaux, conduisent à diminuer la part consacrée
aux discussions intergouvernementales.

General and specific issues of criminal policy.
Enhanced effectiveness and efficiency of trans-border legal
cooperation.
Penal procedure, legal guarantees, pre-trial detention,
7. In your opinion, which priority topics should be victimology, special investigative measures.
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examined by this committee? Criminalisation/decriminalisation, simplified procedures,
diversion.
Prison issues, probation.
The effectiveness of the courts and court systems.
More practical cases should be brought for discussion and

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less drafting of treaties in the PC-OC.
Substantive criminal law, criminal proceedings, international
legal cooperation in criminal matters.
Extradition, mutual legal assistance and transfer of sentenced
persons.
Modernisation of the extradition convention and the
convention on the transfer of sentenced persons.
Normative projects and issues related to their implementation.
Reinforcing effectiveness of cooperation between member
states, analysis of all existing instruments without prejudice to
establishment of new instruments where appropriate.
Orient the discussions of the Ministers to clear, precise and
“sexy” topics.
Resolve political problems resulting from the work of the
groups.
Parmi les subjets en cours, ceux relatifs à la preuve
scientifique en matière pénale et ceux relatifs aux délinquants
dangereux apparaissent d’un intérêt particulier.

Implicit affirmative answers Implicit negative answers
8. Do you see the need to reinforce the interaction
between the Committee of Ministers and your Nbr % Nbr % 13
committee?
4 9

National experts from some newer member states (e.g.
Moldova, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia) often have
9. Do you wish to make any other comments not difficulties actively to contribute to discussions.
already provided regarding the work of your Prepare and publish a guide on mutual legal assistance. 3
committee? The CoE should promote its publications more actively.
Highlight the important contribution to the work of the
committee provided by the Secretariat.

10. Does your country participate regularly in the work Nbr “YES” % of “YES” Nbr of “NO” % of “NO”
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of this committee?
13 1

SYNTHESIS OF RESPONSES BY THE SECRETARIAT OF THE COMMITTEE

1. Has the committee’s work been useful in view of the elaboration of the national legislation (laws,
regulations, and directives) and/or public debate?

Yes, very useful.

2. Was the committee’s work useful in your country for professionals dealing with questions falling
within the committee’s competence?

Yes, very useful.

3. Do you think there was an overlapping of the work of the Council of Europe in the field of your
committee, with the work carried out by other international organisations?

Yes, there is an inevitable overlap with the work of the European Union.

4. Do the meetings of the committee (plenary meetings, Bureau, meetings of subordinate bodies, …)
function in an efficient way?

Yes.

5. To what extent would it be possible to obtain similar results by having less plenary and more
meetings of the Bureau or subordinate bodies or by using other means of communication?

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It would not be possible since there is only one plenary meeting per year.

6. With the same budget, what improvements do you suggest to raise the efficiency and relevance of
the committee’s work (for example with regard to topics addressed, length of agendas, documents,
working methods, ministerial conferences, …)?

Shorter plenary meetings but twice per year instead of once. This would involve fewer items on the agenda
each time and give more time for intergovernmental discussion.

7. In your opinion, which priority topics should be examined by this committee?

Topics related to scientific proof in criminal matters, dangerous offenders, prison issues, penal procedure,
victimology, special investigative measures, modernisation of conventions on international cooperation in
criminal matters.

8. Do you see the need to reinforce the interaction between the Committee of Ministers and your
committee?

No, the current situation is acceptable.

9. Do you wish to make any other comments not already provided regarding the work of your
committee?

10. Does your country participate regularly in the work of this committee?

13 of the 14 countries which replied participate regularly in the work of the CDPC.

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APPENDIX: INDIVIDUAL ANSWERS BY COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Questionnaire to be addressed to members of steering and ad hoc
committees of the Council of Europe

Name of Committee: Steering Committee on Crime Problems (CDPC)…

Name of Committee member (optional): Roland MIKLAU………………….. Member State
(optional): AUSTRIA (AT)/ currently ALBANIA(AL)……………..

Box to be filled in by the Secretariat of the Committee when writing the synthesis of all answers

a) Provide brief background information on the original setting up of the Committee. Indicate the
validity period of its last mandate.

b) List the subordinate bodies of this committee active during its last mandate. State their main
purpose.

A. Relevance and added value: impact of the committee’s work in your country

1. Has the committee’s work been useful in view of the elaboration of the national legislation (laws,
regulations, and directives) and/or public debate?

HIGH 5 4 3 2 1 LOW
x x
(AL) (AT)
Please explain your response by giving a few examples of use or of difficulties:
-AL: CoE(CDPC) resolutions are very useful as “European standards” in assisting Albanian law
drafters (e.g. prison & probation, mediation in penal matters, pre-trial detention, legal aid,
domestic violence); MLA and Extradition Conventions are applied; difficulty: some treaties are
ratified, but not implemented

AT: CoE Conventions (e.g. MLA, Extradition+Protocols, Money Laundering, Corruption,
Terrorism Prevention, Sexual Exploitation etc.) very useful as standards for efficient international
cooperation and as incentives for the legislature. Recommendations (e.g. Prison Rules, simplified
and summary proceedings, pre-trial detention, domestic violence etc.) used as guidelines and
supporting arguments in policy decisions; difficulty: Political priority for EU instruments; EU
“copying” CoE instruments delays ratification processes
-

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2. Was the committee’s work useful in your country for professionals dealing with questions falling
within the committee’s competence?

HIGH 5 4 3 2 1 LOW
x x
(AT) (AL)
Please explain your response by giving a few examples. If the work was not useful, what are the
reasons, to your mind?
-(AT): useful for international cooperation (PC-OC work), for the prison administration and as
standards and supporting guidelines for reforms in penal legislation (together with ECtHR
jurisprudence)

(AL): useful for specialists in certain fields (e.g. mutual legal assistance in criminal matters), but
lack of professional knowledge transfer because of scarce participation in expert committees, lack
of translations and attention, lack of sufficient civil service and professional expertise;
underdeveloped academic community, but increasing attention by NGO professionals

3. Do you think there was an overlapping of the work of the Council of Europe in the field of your
committee, with the work carried out by other international organisations?

Please give details (Organization, Agency, ...; activity of overlapping, ...)
United Nations (corruption, organised crime)
European Union (terrorism, sexual exploitation)

Please point out the added value of the work of the Council of Europe in your field:
Much more comprehensive and less politically influenced coverage of the criminal field, better
knowledge-based (scientific) groundwork for penal policy decisions, more balanced approach,
more attention for human rights; possibility for more advanced and more detailed standards and
guidelines than in any other international governmental context; participation of 47 Member States
with intensive “(North-)West” to “(South-)East” knowledge and experience transfer, at the same
time new and fruitful challenges for the “West” by information and discussion of “Eastern”
problems

B. Efficiency: critical evaluation of the committee’s working methods

4. Do the meetings of the committee (plenary meetings, Bureau, meetings of subordinate bodies, …)
function in an efficient way?

HIGH 5 4 3 2 1 LOW
x

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5. To what extent would it be possible to obtain similar results by having less plenary and more
meetings of the Bureau or subordinate bodies or by using other means of communication?

HIGH 5 4 3 2 1 LOW
x

Please comment briefly:
-in general very efficient meetings, occasionally too lengthy and redundant discussions (mainly
due to change of national experts between committee meetings or lack of preparation or
coordination at the national level)

-less than one plenary meeting of the CDPC per year is not feasible
- the possibility of supplementing/replacing a few intermediate Bureau or committee meetings by
videoconferencing could be explored

Please provide concrete proposals:
- include scientific experts in criminology in the CDPC in a sustainable (not ad hoc) way

- in some instances more concrete preparatory work by consultants, secretariat or small work
groups could be useful

7. In your opinion, which priority topics should be examined by this committee?

Please comment briefly:
- general and specific issues of criminal policy (also based on scientific knowledge/criminology
experts!)
- enhanced effectiveness and efficiency of trans-border legal cooperation
- penal procedure, legal guarantees, pre-trial detention, victimology, special investigative measures
-criminalisation/decriminalisation, simplified procedures, diversion
- prison issues, probation

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8. Do you see the need to reinforce the interaction between the Committee of Ministers and your
committee?

Please comment briefly giving concrete indications:
-Yes, contacts between the CoM’s Rapporteur Group and the Chair/Bureau of the CDPC could be
established (in particular ahead of the discussion/adoption of important instruments by the CoM)

9. Do you wish to make any other comments not already provided regarding the work of your
committee?

Please comment briefly:
-National experts from some newer MS (e.g. Moldova, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbeidjan, Georgia)
have often difficulties actively to contribute to discussions

-The Member states should be encouraged to send (more) senior officials of the Ministry of Justice
to plenary meetings

10. Does your country participate regularly in the work of this committee?

YES / NO

Please comment briefly:
-(AT): Yes
(AL): No

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Questionnaire to be addressed to members of steering and ad hoc
committees of the Council of Europe

Name of Committee: European Committee on Crime Problems…

Name of Committee member (optional): Hovhannes POGHOSYAN
Member State (optional):Republic of Armenia

Box to be filled in by the Secretariat of the Committee when writing the synthesis of all answers

a) Provide brief background information on the original setting up of the Committee. Indicate the
validity period of its last mandate.

b) List the subordinate bodies of this committee active during its last mandate. State their main
purpose.

A. Relevance and added value: impact of the committee’s work in your country

1. Has the committee’s work been useful in view of the elaboration of the national legislation (laws,
regulations, and directives) and/or public debate?

HIGH 5 4 3 2 1 LOW
+

Please explain your response by giving a few examples of use or of difficulties:
- All the documents, including CDPC reports and list of decisions are distributed through the
Ministry for Foreign Affairs to the relevant bodies for guidance in their daily work.

- The national legislation are elaborating mainly on the basis of recommandetions and directives of
the CDPC.

2. Was the committee’s work useful in your country for professionals dealing with questions falling
within the committee’s competence?

HIGH 5 4 3 2 1 LOW
+

Please explain your response by giving a few examples. If the work was not useful, what are the
reasons, to your mind?

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- The practical difficulties raised during the plenary became topics for discussion for practical
workers and such discussions are very useful for further activities.

3. Do you think there was an overlapping of the work of the Council of Europe in the field of your
committee, with the work carried out by other international organisations?

Please give details (Organization, Agency, ...; activity of overlapping, ...)
I think there was no any overlapping of the work of the committee with the work carried out by
other international organisations.

Please point out the added value of the work of the Council of Europe in your field:

The main value of the CDPC is the promotion of the implementation and harmonisation of
national policies with regard to criminal law, as well as the examination of Council of Europe
conventions and agreements in the penal field and improving practical applications

B. Efficiency: critical evaluation of the committee’s working methods

4. Do the meetings of the committee (plenary meetings, Bureau, meetings of subordinate bodies, …)
function in an efficient way?

HIGH 5 4 3 2 1 LOW
+

5. To what extent would it be possible to obtain similar results by having less plenary and more
meetings of the Bureau or subordinate bodies or by using other means of communication?

HIGH 5 4 3 2 1 LOW
+

Please comment briefly:
- The CDPC holds a plenary session every year and it is very efficient way. I think we have to go
on by this mechanism as it is.

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Please provide concrete proposals:
- The agendas of the CDPC every time were very hard and meaningful. The working methods as to
me is enough efficient and to propose to change something with the same budget is very difficult.

7. In your opinion, which priority topics should be examined by this committee?

Please comment briefly:
- All the topics that we had in our agendas were very important one and to give priority to some of
them would be not correct. Meanwhile during the meetings we have to give more importance to
the examination of Council of Europe conventions and agreements in the penal field, and to the
practical cooperation of the member States.

8. Do you see the need to reinforce the interaction between the Committee of Ministers and your
committee?

Please comment briefly giving concrete indications:
- Consider the possibility of participation of the Chair of CDPC at the Committee of Ministers
meetings.

9. Do you wish to make any other comments not already provided regarding the work of your
committee?

Please comment briefly:
- NO

10. Does your country participate regularly in the work of this committee?

YES

Please comment briefly:
- Since 2001 Armenia has participated in all CDPC meetings. This activity is very important for us
and Armenia is ready to make its contribution in all projects.

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Questionnaire to be addressed to members of steering and ad hoc committees of the Council of
Europe

Name of Committee: European Committee on Crime Problems (CDPC)

Name of Committee member (optional): ………………….. Member State (optional): BULGARIA

Box to be filled in by the Secretariat of the Committee when writing the synthesis of all answers

a) Provide brief background information on the original setting up of the Committee. Indicate the
validity period of its last mandate.

b) List the subordinate bodies of this committee active during its last mandate. State their main
purpose.

A. Relevance and added value: impact of the committee’s work in your country

1. Has the committee’s work been useful in view of the elaboration of the national legislation (laws,
regulations, and directives) and/or public debate?

HIGH 5 4 3 2 1 LOW
X

Please explain your response by giving a few examples of use or of difficulties:

- The Convention on protection of children against sexual exploitation and sexual abuse
served as a basis for the legislative amendments of the Bulgarian Penal Code (PC), carried
out in April 2009, in Section “Debauchery” of the PC and in the Bulgarian Penal Procedure
Code (PPC). The main purpose of the aforesaid legislative amendments, carried out by the
Bulgarian Government (in particular, initiated by the Ministry of Justice) was to bring in
line the relevant provision of the PC and the PPC with the high standards of the new Council
of Europe Convention in the area of protection of children against different types of sexual
offences. Through the abovementioned amendments, new corpora delicti were introduced in
the Bulgarian PC and new procedural rules in the PPC (an essential example for the latter is
the fact that with the amendments in the PPC the interrogation of a child victim of a sexual
offence can be carried out through the use of videoconference). The legislative amendments
are already fact, which undoubtedly proves the practical significance of the new Council of
Europe legal instrument.

- Bulgarian authorities also give great importance to the work done within the Ad hoc
Committee on counterfeiting of medical products and similar crimes involving threats to
public health (PC-ISP) towards the elaboration of a new convention on the same matter. The
future adoption of the above mentioned instrument will provide for criminalisation of
certain acts and facilitate the international cooperation between the state parties by creating
a set of minimum standards in the field of prevention and combating counterfeit medical
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products. One of the most significant results, similar to the above given example, will be
namely the improvement of the quality of both national and international legislation, as well
as setting up and application of higher standards in protection of public health.

2. Was the committee’s work useful in your country for professionals dealing with questions falling
within the committee’s competence?

HIGH 5 4 3 2 1 LOW
X

Please explain your response by giving a few examples. If the work was not useful, what are the
reasons, to your mind?

- The Committee’s work is considered to be very useful, due to the fact that professionals
being involved in the activities of CDPC mostly appreciate the function of the Committee
related to making proposals to the Committee of Ministers for undertaking of certain actions
(including legislative, practical, etc.) in the field of criminal law and procedure. In particular,
the experts within the Ministry of Justice consider this function as a key one which has a
horizontal impact on criminal law in general. This impact is undoubtedly being achieved
through the activity of the Committee to provide adequate solutions for various criminal law
issues - both substantive criminal law and procedural law matters.

On the other hand, CDPC has “a broad overview” over the activity of numerous expert
committees, groups of specialists, etc. before their work is being presented to the Committee
of Ministers.

3. Do you think there was an overlapping of the work of the Council of Europe in the field of your
committee, with the work carried out by other international organisations?

Please give details (Organization, Agency, ...; activity of overlapping, ...)

No.

Please point out the added value of the work of the Council of Europe in your field:

Some of the practical results have been pointed out in the answers to Question 1 and 2. Our
general conclusion is that the added value of the work of the Council of Europe is the
introduction of high standards in the criminal law for Member-States (substantive and
procedural law), strengthening of the international legal cooperation in criminal matters, as
well as elaboration of adequate solutions for various practical problems, which might emerge
in the process of international legal cooperation.

B. Efficiency: critical evaluation of the committee’s working methods

4. Do the meetings of the committee (plenary meetings, Bureau, meetings of subordinate bodies, …)
function in an efficient way?

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HIGH 5 4 3 2 1 LOW
X

5. To what extent would it be possible to obtain similar results by having less plenary and more
meetings of the Bureau or subordinate bodies or by using other means of communication?

HIGH 5 4 3 2 1 LOW
X

Please comment briefly:

- We do not consider the current number of plenary meetings as excessive. On the contrary,
we share the opinion that if the number of plenary meeting (which is currently 1 per year) is
limited, the agenda of the meetings will be “overloaded” and it will very difficult to take
decisions on all the items included. This might decrease the efficiency of the Committee’s
work.

Please provide concrete proposals:

More studies or scientific researches concerning the issues which fall into the scope of the
Committee.

7. In your opinion, which priority topics should be examined by this committee?

Please comment briefly:

Substantive criminal law; criminal proceedings; international legal cooperation in criminal
matters; penology, etc.

8. Do you see the need to reinforce the interaction between the Committee of Ministers and your
committee?

Please comment briefly giving concrete indications:

No particular need – we consider the current interaction as sufficient.

9. Do you wish to make any other comments not already provided regarding the work of your
committee?

Please comment briefly:
-

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-

10. Does your country participate regularly in the work of this committee?

YES / NO

Please comment briefly:
-

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Questionnaire to be addressed to members of steering and ad hoc
committees of the Council of Europe

Name of Committee: European Committee on Crime Problems

Name of Committee member (optional): ………………….. Member State (optional): Finland

Box to be filled in by the Secretariat of the Committee when writing the synthesis of all answers

a) Provide brief background information on the original setting up of the Committee. Indicate the
validity period of its last mandate.

b) List the subordinate bodies of this committee active during its last mandate. State their main
purpose.

A. Relevance and added value: impact of the committee’s work in your country

1. Has the committee’s work been useful in view of the elaboration of the national legislation (laws,
regulations, and directives) and/or public debate?

HIGH 5 4 3 2 1 LOW
x

Please explain your response by giving a few examples of use or of difficulties:
- The CDPC is a permanent steering committee for criminal matters, and the issues that it deal with
have direct relevance for the development of criminal justice and criminal policy in all member
states of the Council of Europe.

2. Was the committee’s work useful in your country for professionals dealing with questions falling
within the committee’s competence?

HIGH 5 4 3 2 1 LOW
x

Please explain your response by giving a few examples. If the work was not useful, what are the
reasons, to your mind?

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- The issues covered range from the “hard law” of conventions, to the “soft law” of guidelines and
recommendations.

3. Do you think there was an overlapping of the work of the Council of Europe in the field of your
committee, with the work carried out by other international organisations?

Please give details (Organization, Agency, ...; activity of overlapping, ...)
Yes, of course there is overlap to some extent with several other organizations, in particular the
European Union and the United Nations. The main factors contributing to this overlap are the
membership (the wider the membership, the more difficult it is to achieve consensus on
instruments that actually have a relevance to practice and policy), and the continuity of activity
(the Council of Europe has the longest tradition, and to some extent the European Union is trying
to “reinvent the wheel” on some issues, and trying to go further on others).

We are aware, and we appreciate, the great extent to which efforts are made to coordinate the work
of the Council of Europe, and the European Union.

The overlap with the United Nations (UN Office on Drugs and Crime) is not a significant problem.
The UN has produced a considerable variety of soft law recommendations and resolutions – which
often are based on Council of Europe discussions and instruments, but are then generalized (and
“watered down”) to allow them a more global application.

The UN has also produced hard law in the form of the conventions from 1988, 2000 and 2003. To
a significant degree, these have been able to utilize the experience of the Council of Europe (and
the European Union).

It appears likely that the Council of Europe and its CDPC will continue to be a source of
inspiration to other regions.

Please point out the added value of the work of the Council of Europe in your field:

[see the above answer}

B. Efficiency: critical evaluation of the committee’s working methods

4. Do the meetings of the committee (plenary meetings, Bureau, meetings of subordinate bodies, …)
function in an efficient way?

HIGH 5 4 3 2 1 LOW

5. To what extent would it be possible to obtain similar results by having less plenary and more
meetings of the Bureau or subordinate bodies or by using other means of communication?

HIGH 5 4 3 2 1 LOW

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Please comment briefly:
- The agendas of the CDPC appear, regrettably, to be increasing from year to year. It is fortunate
that the participants at CDPC meetings tend to be well indoctrinated into the issues at hand, and
into the operating procedures of the CDPC – otherwise it would not be possible to cover so much
ground in just a few days.

Please provide concrete proposals:
-

7. In your opinion, which priority topics should be examined by this committee?

Please comment briefly:
-

8. Do you see the need to reinforce the interaction between the Committee of Ministers and your
committee?

Please comment briefly giving concrete indications:
- The interaction at present appears to function quite well.

9. Do you wish to make any other comments not already provided regarding the work of your
committee?

Please comment briefly:
-

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-

10. Does your country participate regularly in the work of this committee?

YES / NO

Please comment briefly:
- Finland has long found the work of the CDPC to be very useful, and the meetings provide good
opportunities for exchanging experiences in key issues.

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Questionnaire à adresser aux membres des comités directeurs et comités
ad-hoc du Conseil de l’Europe

Nom du Comité : CDPC

Nom du membre du Comité (facultatif) : Lorenzo SALAZAR Etat membre : Italie

Case à remplir par le Secrétariat du Comité lors de la rédaction de la synthèse de toutes les
réponses

a) Fournir une brève description sur la constitution d’origine du comité. Indiquer la période de
validité de son dernier mandat.

b) Enumérer les organes subordonnés de ce comité pendant son dernier mandat. Définir leur but
principal.

A. Pertinence et valeur ajoutée : incidence des travaux du comité dans votre pays

1. Les travaux du comité ont-ils été utiles pour l’élaboration de la législation nationale (lois,
règlements et directives) et/ou pour le débat public ?

TRES UTILES 5 4 3 2 1 PEU UTILES
X

Veuillez justifier votre réponse en donnant quelques exemples d’utilisation ou de difficultés :
- Les instruments de « soft law » du Conseil de l’Europe sont constamment source d’inspiration lors
des débats parlementaires ou de la préparation des drafts de legislation.
- Les conventions du Conseil de l’Europe sont souvent source d’inspiration pour le législateur
italien lors de leurs transposition
- Les recommandations des mécanismes de monitoring (p .e. GRECO) ont beaucoup d’influence
sur les travaux législatifs interne

2. Les travaux du comité ont-ils été utiles dans votre pays aux professionnels qui traitent des
questions relevant de la compétence du comité ?

TRES UTILES 5 4 3 2 1 PEU UTILES
X

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Veuillez justifier votre réponse en donnant quelques exemples. Si les travaux n’ont pas été utiles,
quelles pourraient en être les causes à votre avis ?
- Les travaux du CDPC ne sont pas connus par tous les professionnels de la Justice. Une œuvre de
dissémination plus efficace parait nécessaire.

3. Pensez-vous qu'il existe des chevauchements d'activités du Conseil de l'Europe dans le domaine
de votre comité, avec les activités d'autres organisations internationales ? OUI

Veuillez donner quelques détails (Organisation, Agence, ...; activité de chevauchement, ...)
Notamment avec les activités de l’UE en matière de coopération pénale. Néanmoins je vois cela
plutôt comme un facteur de positive inspiration mutuelle que comme une source potentielle de
conflits.

Veuillez indiquer le valeur ajouté des travaux du Conseil de l'Europe dans votre domaine :
Certains grandes interventions du législateur italien en matière pénale sont en connexion avec la
nécessité de mettre en œuvre des instruments du CdE (comme par exemple dans le cas de la
convention blanchiment et confiscation) ou de participer à ses mecanismes d’evaluation (GRECO)

B. Efficacité : appréciation critique des méthodes de travail du comité

4. Les réunions du comité (réunions plénières, du Bureau, réunions des organes subordonnés, …)
fonctionnent-elles de manière efficace ?

TRES 5 4 3 2 1 PEU
EFFICACE EFFICACE
X

5. Dans quelle mesure serait-il possible d’obtenir des résultats similaires en ayant moins de réunions
plénières et davantage de réunions du Bureau ou des organes subordonnés, ou en recourant à
d'autres moyens de communication ?

DANS UNE 5 4 3 2 1 DANS UNE
GRANDE MESURE MOINDRE MESURE
X

Veuillez commenter brièvement :
-Le CDPC se réunit déjà une seule fois par an et je ne crois pas qu’on puisse facilement réduire ça
davantage.

6. A budget constant, quelles améliorations proposez-vous pour améliorer l’efficacité et la
pertinence des travaux du comité (par exemple en matière de sujets abordés, ampleur de l’ordre du
jour, documents, méthodes de travail, conférences ministérielles …) ?

Veuillez formuler des propositions concrètes :
- Eviter de réduire les discussions sur la grand partie de sujets a tort ou à raison considérés comme
« mineurs » à la dernière (demi) journée de réunion en privant les débats à ce sujet de
l’enrichissement potentiel dérivant de la contribution de tous

- Calendariser avec plus de précision les discussion législatives en évitant dans la mesure du
possible de empiéter au-delà du temps assigné dans l’idée que, au début de la semaine des travaux,
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on dispose de beaucoup de temps et on puisse prendre le « luxe » des discussions parfois superflues
sur des points de détail pour se réduire après a clôturer de manière parfois précipiteuse les
discussions vers la fin de la semaine pour manque de temps.

7. Quels sont, à votre avis, les sujets prioritaires que ce comité devrait examiner ?

Veuillez commenter brièvement :
- Orienter les discussions politiques des Ministres ver de sujets claire, précis et « sexy »

- Résoudre le points politiques en suspens découlant des travaux des groupes

- Analyser de manière attentive la nécessité et la désidérabilité des travaux législatifs à venir
relevant de la compétence du CDPC sur la base aussi d’une analyse d’impact

8. Voyez-vous la nécessité de renforcer l’interaction entre le Comité des Ministres et votre comité?

Veuillez commenter brièvement en donnant quelques indications concrètes :
Oui, en assurant une information plus exhaustive et rapide de ses déterminations, aussi pour ce qui
est des discussions tenues par les Ambassadeurs, sur les points renvoyés par le CDPC

9. Souhaitez-vous exprimer d’autres remarques non encore formulées sur les travaux de votre
comité ?

Veuillez commenter brièvement :
Pas de commentaires sauf mettre en valeur la valeur déterminante de la contribution fournie à ses
travaux par le Secrétariat dans son complexe

10. Votre pays participe-t-il régulièrement aux travaux de ce comité ?

OUI

Merci de commenter brièvement:
- Pas de commentaires

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Questionnaire à adresser aux membres des comités directeurs et comités
ad-hoc du Conseil de l’Europe

Nom du Comité : Comité Directeur pour les Problèmes Criminels (CDPC)

Nom du membre du Comité (facultatif) :B. Stadelmann……….. Etat membre (facultatif) : Suisse

Case à remplir par le Secrétariat du Comité lors de la rédaction de la synthèse de toutes les
réponses

a) Fournir une brève description sur la constitution d’origine du comité. Indiquer la période de
validité de son dernier mandat.

b) Enumérer les organes subordonnés de ce comité pendant son dernier mandat. Définir leur but
principal.

A. Pertinence et valeur ajoutée : incidence des travaux du comité dans votre pays

1. Les travaux du comité ont-ils été utiles pour l’élaboration de la législation nationale (lois,
règlements et directives) et/ou pour le débat public ?

TRES UTILES 5 4 3 2 1 PEU UTILES
x

Veuillez justifier votre réponse en donnant quelques exemples d’utilisation ou de difficultés :

L'utilité dépend du domaine. La législation suisse est en général largement conforme aux standards
internationaux. Dans la plupart des cas, la mise en oeuvre des conventions du Conseil de l' Europe
ne nécessite pas de changements fondamentaux de la législation interne. Comme exemple, on peut
mentionner le troisième protocole additionnel à la Convention européenne d'extradition. Par contre,
l'adhésion à une convention ne peut pas être le seul motif pour changer la législation interne.

2. Les travaux du comité ont-ils été utiles dans votre pays aux professionnels qui traitent des
questions relevant de la compétence du comité ?

TRES UTILES 5 4 3 2 1 PEU UTILES
x

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Veuillez justifier votre réponse en donnant quelques exemples. Si les travaux n’ont pas été utiles,
quelles pourraient en être les causes à votre avis ?

Les Recommendations suivantes ont été très utiles pour les praticiens dans le domaine de
l'éxécution des peines et mesures:

- Rec (2006)2 du Comité des Ministers aux Etats membres sur les Régles pénitentiaires
européennes

- Rec (2008)11 du Comité des Ministers aux Etats membres sur les Règles européennes pour les
délinquents mineurs faisant l'objet de sanctions ou de mesures

3. Pensez-vous qu'il existe des chevauchements d'activités du Conseil de l'Europe dans le domaine
de votre comité, avec les activités d'autres organisations internationales ?

Veuillez donner quelques détails (Organisation, Agence, ...; activité de chevauchement, ...)
- Convention des Nations Unies contre la corruption.
- Convention de l' ocde sur la lutte contre la corruption d’agents publics étrangers dans les
transactions commerciales internationales.
- Protocole visant à prévenir, réprimer et punir la traite des personnes, en particulier des femmes
et des enfants, additionnel à la Convention des Nations Unies contre la criminalité transnationale
organisée.

Veuillez indiquer le valeur ajouté des travaux du Conseil de l'Europe dans votre domaine :

B. Efficacité : appréciation critique des méthodes de travail du comité

4. Les réunions du comité (réunions plénières, du Bureau, réunions des organes subordonnés, …)
fonctionnent-elles de manière efficace ?

TRES 5 4 3 2 1 PEU
EFFICACE EFFICACE
x

DANS UNE 5 4 3 2 1 DANS UNE
GRANDE MESURE MOINDRE MESURE
x

Veuillez commenter brièvement :

- Il n'y a déjà aujourd'hui qu'une séance plénière par année. Le Bureau fait les traveaux
préparatoires

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6. A budget constant, quelles améliorations proposez-vous pour améliorer l’efficacité et la
pertinence des travaux du comité (par exemple en matière de sujets abordés, ampleur de l’ordre du
jour, documents, méthodes de travail, conférences ministérielles …) ?

Veuillez formuler des propositions concrètes :

Les documents devraient être distribués plus tôt pour avoir assez de temps pour préparer la séance.

7. Quels sont, à votre avis, les sujets prioritaires que ce comité devrait examiner ?

Veuillez commenter brièvement :
-

8. Voyez-vous la nécessité de renforcer l’interaction entre le Comité des Ministres et votre comité?
Non.

Veuillez commenter brièvement en donnant quelques indications concrètes :

9. Souhaitez-vous exprimer d’autres remarques non encore formulées sur les travaux de votre
comité ?

Veuillez commenter brièvement :

10. Votre pays participe-t-il régulièrement aux travaux de ce comité ?

OUI

Merci de commenter brièvement:

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Questionnaire to be addressed to members of steering and ad hoc
committees of the Council of Europe

Name of Committee: European Committee on Crime Problems

Name of Committee member (optional): ………………….. Member State (optional):……………..

Box to be filled in by the Secretariat of the Committee when writing the synthesis of all answers

a) Provide brief background information on the original setting up of the Committee. Indicate the
validity period of its last mandate.

b) List the subordinate bodies of this committee active during its last mandate. State their main
purpose.

A. Relevance and added value: impact of the committee’s work in your country

1. Has the committee’s work been useful in view of the elaboration of the national legislation (laws,
regulations, and directives) and/or public debate?

HIGH 5 4 3 2 1 LOW
√

Please explain your response by giving a few examples of use or of difficulties:
-There is very difficult to assess direct impact of the committee’s work on national legal system.
The steering committee poses one of the body of Council of Europe which participate in
establishment the law particularly concerning co-operation in criminal matters.

- All conventions in these matters are very important achievement in raising the safeguards of the
citizens to be properly protected on the same level in all member States. Also the other legal acts
such as recommendations or resolutions depict in which directions the future work of the Council
of Europe should be carried out.

- That is why legislative results of legal activity of Council of Europe including committee’s work
play important role for internal legislator. It shows what need to be done to be in compliance with
the latest Council of Europe’s achievement in criminal field.

2. Was the committee’s work useful in your country for professionals dealing with questions falling
within the committee’s competence?

HIGH 5 4 3 2 1 LOW
√

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Please explain your response by giving a few examples. If the work was not useful, what are the
reasons, to your mind?
-The professionals make use first of all of all instruments which were incorporated into national
legal system.

- Wide range of the conventions were adopted inter alia by the committee. Hence also input made
by the committee to legislative activity of Council of Europe shall also be visible for the
professionals.

3. Do you think there was an overlapping of the work of the Council of Europe in the field of your
committee, with the work carried out by other international organisations?

Please give details (Organization, Agency, ...; activity of overlapping, ...)
In principle the committee deals with criminal instruments ahead of the other organizations or
agencies.

So as regards the outcome, it might sometimes happen that because of overlapping the interests
towards protection of human rights or prevention the crimes some organizations or agencies may
undertake similar legislative activity.

However, legislative acts adopted by Council of Europe usually pose a indication what need to be
done in the future. Yet they give rise to follow of the Council’s (committee’s) footsteps in these
matters.

Please point out the added value of the work of the Council of Europe in your field:
The instruments which were adopted by Council of Europe pose very important input in
improvement of international co-operation between member States.

The outcomes of its work point out the direction how to improve the protection of human rights
especially in criminal field.

B. Efficiency: critical evaluation of the committee’s working methods

4. Do the meetings of the committee (plenary meetings, Bureau, meetings of subordinate bodies, …)
function in an efficient way?

HIGH 5 4 3 2 1 LOW
√

5. To what extent would it be possible to obtain similar results by having less plenary and more
meetings of the Bureau or subordinate bodies or by using other means of communication?

HIGH 5 4 3 2 1 LOW
√

Please comment briefly:
- Replacement of the plenary meetings by the Bureau meetings might not be sufficient means to
improve the effectiveness of interoperability between member States. The reason why to establish
the plenary meetings of the committee was to give the chance to delegates from different countries

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to exchange their views and opinions in order to find a solution or reach a compromise despite
varieties of their legal systems.

-Leaving such opportunity in hands of the Bureau might expedite the preparations to the plenary
meeting of the committee and reduce the costs of functioning of the committee. However it might
not be a sufficient way for facilitate the means of reaching the compromise between member
States.

Please provide concrete proposals:

-It should be taken into consideration the shortening the duration of the plenary meetings.
-Instead of current period of the plenary meetings, it might be taken into account to organise the
meeting for example twice a year for shorter period of time. It would give the delegates more time
to prepare their attitudes and reach a compromise even if such compromise could not be achieved
during one meeting.

7. In your opinion, which priority topics should be examined by this committee?

Please comment briefly:
One of the main task of committee’s activity is to raise the effectiveness in interoperability
between the member States.

That is why such co-operation should be still reinforced n terms of carrying out the analysis of all
existing instruments in that field without prejudice to establishment new instruments, where
appropriate.

8. Do you see the need to reinforce the interaction between the Committee of Ministers and your
committee?

Please comment briefly giving concrete indications:
- All problems which were tackled during the meetings of the committee are usually raised in list
of decisions taken during its work.

-It seems to be proper means of the communication with the Committee of Ministers which allows
to show the merit of the committee’s work and specificity of the matters handled with.

9. Do you wish to make any other comments not already provided regarding the work of your
committee?

Please comment briefly:
-

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10. Does your country participate regularly in the work of this committee?

YES / NO

Please comment briefly:
-For years the delegates from Poland participate in the work of CDPC-committee.

-Such meetings create proper atmosphere to change the views between the delegates and release
the spirit for effective works on crime problems.

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Questionnaire à adresser aux membres des comités directeurs et comités
ad-hoc du Conseil de l’Europe

Nom du Comité : CDPC

Nom du membre du Comité (facultatif) : ………………….. Etat membre (facultatif) : BELGIQUE

Case à remplir par le Secrétariat du Comité lors de la rédaction de la synthèse de toutes les
réponses

a) Fournir une brève description sur la constitution d’origine du comité. Indiquer la période de
validité de son dernier mandat.

b) Enumérer les organes subordonnés de ce comité pendant son dernier mandat. Définir leur but
principal.

A. Pertinence et valeur ajoutée : incidence des travaux du comité dans votre pays

1. Les travaux du comité ont-ils été utiles pour l’élaboration de la législation nationale (lois,
règlements et directives) et/ou pour le débat public ?

TRES UTILES 5 4 3 2 1 PEU UTILES
X

Veuillez justifier votre réponse en donnant quelques exemples d’utilisation ou de difficultés :
- Adoption de conventions avec mises en conformité de la législation nationale.
- Adoption de lignes directrices.
-

2. Les travaux du comité ont-ils été utiles dans votre pays aux professionnels qui traitent des
questions relevant de la compétence du comité ?

TRES UTILES 5 4 3 2 1 PEU UTILES
X

Veuillez justifier votre réponse en donnant quelques exemples. Si les travaux n’ont pas été utiles,
quelles pourraient en être les causes à votre avis ?

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- Normes pénitentiaires utiles pour l’Administration concernée.
-
-

3. Pensez-vous qu'il existe des chevauchements d'activités du Conseil de l'Europe dans le domaine
de votre comité, avec les activités d'autres organisations internationales ?

Veuillez donner quelques détails (Organisation, Agence, ...; activité de chevauchement, ...)
Union européenne

Veuillez indiquer le valeur ajouté des travaux du Conseil de l'Europe dans votre domaine :
- Echanges d’informations multidisciplinaires.

- Forum souple et tourné vers la pratique.

B. Efficacité : appréciation critique des méthodes de travail du comité

4. Les réunions du comité (réunions plénières, du Bureau, réunions des organes subordonnés, …)
fonctionnent-elles de manière efficace ?

TRES 5 4 3 2 1 PEU
EFFICACE EFFICACE
X

DANS UNE 5 4 3 2 1 DANS UNE
GRANDE MESURE MOINDRE MESURE
X

Veuillez commenter brièvement :
- Le CDPC ne se réunit en session plénière qu’une fois par an et il semble difficile d’en réduire
encore la fréquence.
-

Veuillez formuler des propositions concrètes :

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- Moins de sujets à l’ordre du jour des comités techniques sous l’égide du CDPC.

7. Quels sont, à votre avis, les sujets prioritaires que ce comité devrait examiner ?

Veuillez commenter brièvement :
- Projets normatifs et les questions liées à leur mise en œuvre.

8. Voyez-vous la nécessité de renforcer l’interaction entre le Comité des Ministres et votre comité?

Veuillez commenter brièvement en donnant quelques indications concrètes :
- La coordination est surtout à développer sur le plan national entre les délégations aux groupes de
travail et les missions permanentes auprès du Conseil de l’Europe.
-

9. Souhaitez-vous exprimer d’autres remarques non encore formulées sur les travaux de votre
comité ?

Veuillez commenter brièvement :
-

10. Votre pays participe-t-il régulièrement aux travaux de ce comité ?

OUI / NON

Merci de commenter brièvement:
- La Belgique participe activement aux sessions plénières et a présidé très récemment ce comité.
Elle préside encore actuellement certains groupes techniques importants.

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Questionnaire to be addressed to members of steering and ad hoc
committees of the Council of Europe

Name of Committee:European Committee on Crime Problems (CDPC)

Name of Committee member (optional): ………………….. Member State (optional): Estonia

Box to be filled in by the Secretariat of the Committee when writing the synthesis of all answers

a) Provide brief background information on the original setting up of the Committee. Indicate the
validity period of its last mandate.

b) List the subordinate bodies of this committee active during its last mandate. State their main
purpose.

A. Relevance and added value: impact of the committee’s work in your country

1. Has the committee’s work been useful in view of the elaboration of the national legislation (laws,
regulations, and directives) and/or public debate?

HIGH 5 4 3 2 1 LOW
X

Please explain your response by giving a few examples of use or of difficulties:
- CoE Convention on the counterfeiting of medical products and similar crimes involving
threats to public health (an example of use)

2. Was the committee’s work useful in your country for professionals dealing with questions falling
within the committee’s competence?

HIGH 5 4 3 2 1 LOW
X

Please explain your response by giving a few examples. If the work was not useful, what are the
reasons, to your mind?
- The usefulness - definitions written in the conventions and practical aspects discussed in
the meetings.

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-

3. Do you think there was an overlapping of the work of the Council of Europe in the field of your
committee, with the work carried out by other international organisations?

Please give details (Organization, Agency, ...; activity of overlapping, ...)

Please point out the added value of the work of the Council of Europe in your field:

Large number of representatives can discuss and argue on different subject matters.

B. Efficiency: critical evaluation of the committee’s working methods

4. Do the meetings of the committee (plenary meetings, Bureau, meetings of subordinate bodies, …)
function in an efficient way?

HIGH 5 4 3 2 1 LOW
X

5. To what extent would it be possible to obtain similar results by having less plenary and more
meetings of the Bureau or subordinate bodies or by using other means of communication?

HIGH 5 4 3 2 1 LOW
X

Please comment briefly:
- “other mean of communication” could be used more often, in order to work more
efficiently.

Please provide concrete proposals:
- Length of the agendas should not be too long. Otherwise the discussions would be tiring
and not so efficient.

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-

7. In your opinion, which priority topics should be examined by this committee?

Please comment briefly:
---------

8. Do you see the need to reinforce the interaction between the Committee of Ministers and your
committee?

Please comment briefly giving concrete indications:
- no

9. Do you wish to make any other comments not already provided regarding the work of your
committee?

Please comment briefly:
------------------

10. Does your country participate regularly in the work of this committee?

YES / NO

Please comment briefly:
-----------------------

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emembres des comités directeurs et comités ad-hoc du Conseil de l’Europe

Nom du Comité : Comité Directeur pour les Problèmes Criminels (CDPC)

Nom du membre du Comité (facultatif) : Etat membre (facultatif) : Hongrie

Case à remplir par le Secrétariat du Comité lors de la rédaction de la synthèse de toutes les
réponses

a) Fournir une brève description sur la constitution d’origine du comité. Indiquer la période de
validité de son dernier mandat.

b) Enumérer les organes subordonnés de ce comité pendant son dernier mandat. Définir leur but
principal.

A. Pertinence et valeur ajoutée : incidence des travaux du comité dans votre pays

1. Les travaux du comité ont-ils été utiles pour l’élaboration de la législation nationale (lois,
règlements et directives) et/ou pour le débat public ?

TRES UTILES 5 4 3 2 1 PEU UTILES
x

Veuillez justifier votre réponse en donnant quelques exemples d’utilisation ou de difficultés :

La législation hongroise est en général largement conforme aux standards internationaux. Dans la
plupart des cas, la mise en oeuvre des conventions du Conseil de l' Europe ne nécessite pas de
changements fondamentaux de la législation interne. On peut mentionner le troisième protocole
additionnel à la Convention européenne d'extradition ; l’extradition simplifiée existe depuis 1996
dans la législation hongroise.

2. Les travaux du comité ont-ils été utiles dans votre pays aux professionnels qui traitent des
questions relevant de la compétence du comité ?

TRES UTILES 5 4 3 2 1 PEU UTILES
x

Veuillez justifier votre réponse en donnant quelques exemples. Si les travaux n’ont pas été utiles,
quelles pourraient en être les causes à votre avis ?

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La Recommendation suivante a été très utile pour les praticiens dans le domaine de l'éxécution des
peines et mesures:

- Rec (2006)2 du Comité des Ministers aux Etats membres sur les Régles pénitentiaires
européennes

3. Pensez-vous qu'il existe des chevauchements d'activités du Conseil de l'Europe dans le domaine
de votre comité, avec les activités d'autres organisations internationales ?

Veuillez donner quelques détails (Organisation, Agence, ...; activité de chevauchement, ...)

Veuillez indiquer le valeur ajouté des travaux du Conseil de l'Europe dans votre domaine :

B. Efficacité : appréciation critique des méthodes de travail du comité

4. Les réunions du comité (réunions plénières, du Bureau, réunions des organes subordonnés, …)
fonctionnent-elles de manière efficace ?

TRES 5 4 3 2 1 PEU
EFFICACE EFFICACE
x

Veuillez commenter brièvement :

- Il n'y a déjà aujourd'hui qu'une séance plénière par année. Le Bureau fait les traveaux
préparatoires

Veuillez formuler des propositions concrètes :

Les documents devraient être distribués plus tôt pour avoir assez de temps pour préparer la séance.

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7. Quels sont, à votre avis, les sujets prioritaires que ce comité devrait examiner ?

Veuillez commenter brièvement :
-

8. Voyez-vous la nécessité de renforcer l’interaction entre le Comité des Ministres et votre comité?
Non.

Veuillez commenter brièvement en donnant quelques indications concrètes :

9. Souhaitez-vous exprimer d’autres remarques non encore formulées sur les travaux de votre
comité ?

Veuillez commenter brièvement :

10. Votre pays participe-t-il régulièrement aux travaux de ce comité ?

OUI

Merci de commenter brièvement:

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Questionnaire to be addressed to members of steering and ad hoc
committees of the Council of Europe

Name of Committee: CDPC

Name of Committee member (optional): ………………….. Member State (optional):NORWAY.

Box to be filled in by the Secretariat of the Committee when writing the synthesis of all answers

a) Provide brief background information on the original setting up of the Committee. Indicate the
validity period of its last mandate.

b) List the subordinate bodies of this committee active during its last mandate. State their main
purpose.

A. Relevance and added value: impact of the committee’s work in your country

1. Has the committee’s work been useful in view of the elaboration of the national legislation (laws,
regulations, and directives) and/or public debate?

HIGH 5 4 3 2 1 LOW
x

Please explain your response by giving a few examples of use or of difficulties:
- i.e. Convention on illicit drugs and medical products necessitates new regulation/legislation

2. Was the committee’s work useful in your country for professionals dealing with questions falling
within the committee’s competence?

HIGH 5 4 3 2 1 LOW
x

Please explain your response by giving a few examples. If the work was not useful, what are the
reasons, to your mind?
- i.e. probation rules - very useful discussions

-i.e. illicit drugs - very useful discussions

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-

3. Do you think there was an overlapping of the work of the Council of Europe in the field of your
committee, with the work carried out by other international organisations?

Please give details (Organization, Agency, ...; activity of overlapping, ...)
EU – similar discussions on victims and their rights

Please point out the added value of the work of the Council of Europe in your field:
The possibility to discuss/enhance cooperation (also) between countries that are not a member of
the European Union, and on issues that does not fall under the competence of the
Council/Commission, i.e. probation, alternatives to prison.

B. Efficiency: critical evaluation of the committee’s working methods

4. Do the meetings of the committee (plenary meetings, Bureau, meetings of subordinate bodies, …)
function in an efficient way?

HIGH 5 4 3 2 1 LOW
x

5. To what extent would it be possible to obtain similar results by having less plenary and more
meetings of the Bureau or subordinate bodies or by using other means of communication?

HIGH 5 4 3 2 1 LOW
x

Please comment briefly:
- I do not recommend having less than 1 plenary a year, but you might want to reconsider on
having meetings that lasts an entire week. It is not very familyfriendly, and you might end up
putting to many items on the agenda (like last plenary). Better to have two shorter versions?

- If you have 1 plenary a year, the number of items on the agenda should be less than last time, or –
if possible - “more” finished. A lot of time is spent on details, and the plenary sessions do not
manage to finish properly – only hurriedly...

-the use of electronic communication should be considered.

Please provide concrete proposals:

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- see above

7. In your opinion, which priority topics should be examined by this committee?

Please comment briefly:
- (issues that does not fall under the competence of the EU Council/Commission,)
- (issues that need to be addressed “world wide” )
- but also address the need for modernisation of the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced
Persons
- police cooperation (ad hoc group)

8. Do you see the need to reinforce the interaction between the Committee of Ministers and your
committee?

Please comment briefly giving concrete indications:
-

9. Do you wish to make any other comments not already provided regarding the work of your
committee?

Please comment briefly:
-

10. Does your country participate regularly in the work of this committee?

YES

Please comment briefly:
-

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Questionnaire à adresser aux membres des comités directeurs et comités
ad-hoc du Conseil de l’Europe

Nom du Comité : CDPC

Nom du membre du Comité (facultatif) :Vincent JAMIN Etat membre (facultatif) : FRANCE

Case à remplir par le Secrétariat du Comité lors de la rédaction de la synthèse de toutes les réponses

a) Fournir une brève description sur la constitution d’origine du comité. Indiquer la période de validité de son dernier
mandat.

b) Enumérer les organes subordonnés de ce comité pendant son dernier mandat. Définir leur but principal.

A. Pertinence et valeur ajoutée : incidence des travaux du comité dans votre pays

1. Les travaux du comité ont-ils été utiles pour l’élaboration de la législation nationale (lois,
règlements et directives) et/ou pour le débat public ?
TRES UTILES 5 4 3 2 1 PEU UTILES
X

Veuillez justifier votre réponse en donnant quelques exemples d’utilisation ou de difficultés :

– la convention STCE n°201 sur la protection des enfants contre l'exploitation et les abus sexuels a contribué
remettre la question à l'ordre du jour du débat public. Elle a conduit à apporter certaines modifications
législatives permettant de mieux appréhender de nouvelles formes de criminalité (« grooming »).

– le projet de convention sur la contrefaçon de médicaments et les infractions similaires portant atteinte à la santé
publique contribuera à la prise de consicence de l'importance de la lutte contre ce phénomène au niveau
international. Au plan interne, sa mise en oeuvre éventuelle par la France devrait à conduire à repenser le
traitement de certaines infractions afin de renforcer l'efficacité de la répression dans ce domaine.

2. Les travaux du comité ont-ils été utiles dans votre pays aux professionnels qui traitent des
questions relevant de la compétence du comité ?
TRES UTILES 5 4 3 2 1 PEU UTILES
X

Veuillez justifier votre réponse en donnant quelques exemples. Si les travaux n’ont pas été utiles,
quelles pourraient en être les causes à votre avis ?

– Par exemple, les travaux conduits, sous l'égide du CDPC, par le PC-OC, permettent un échange de vues entre
experts sur des questions d'intérêt commun liées à la coopération judiciaire pénale. Il en va de même des travaux
conduits par le comité de coopération pénologique pour les questions pénitentiaires.

– Le projet en cours sur la coopération judiciaire pénale (qui vise à l'établissement d'une base de données contenant

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des modèles-types de demandes d'entraide et des fiches sur les législations nationales applicables) sera d'une utilité
immédiate pour les praticiens.

3. Pensez-vous qu'il existe des chevauchements d'activités du Conseil de l'Europe dans le domaine de votre comité, avec
les activités d'autres organisations internationales ?

Veuillez donner quelques détails (Organisation, Agence, ...; activité de chevauchement, ...)

Un risque de chevauchement existe avec l'UE et de fait, le développement de la construction de l'UE dans le domaine
de la justice pénale a pour conséquence de réduire le champ d'activités potentiel du Conseil de l'Europe et le nombre
des thèmes sur lesquels il peut engager des travaux. Par ailleurs, en matière pénale, il n'est pas toujours souhaitable de
vouloir étendre au Conseil de l'Europe l'ensemble des standards de coopération adoptés dans le cadre de l'UE, qui
peuvent être liés au niveau d'intégration juridique et politique particulier qui existe en son sein.

Veuillez indiquer le valeur ajouté des travaux du Conseil de l'Europe dans votre domaine :

Les travaux conduits sous l'égide du CDPC permettent d'échanger les expériences et les bonnes pratiques sur certains
sujets et, à partir d'une étude approfondie des besoins, de faire émerger des problématiques méritant des travaux
normatifs (par exemple, la contrefaçon de médicaments). Lorsque cette méthode – fondée sur une évaluation préalable
- est suivie, les travaux sont de qualité et ont de la valeur ajoutée.

B. Efficacité : appréciation critique des méthodes de travail du comité

4. Les réunions du comité (réunions plénières, du Bureau, réunions des organes subordonnés, …)
fonctionnent-elles de manière efficace ?
TRES EFFICACE 5 4 3 2 1 PEU EFFICACE
X

Veuillez commenter brièvement :
- Le CDPC se réunit en séance plénière une fois par an, ce qui constitue un minimum. Cette échéance est préparée par
des réunions régulières du bureau (4 ou 5 par an), ce qui paraît constituer une méthode efficace. La qualité des
documents préparés par le secrétariat facilite les travaux du comité.

Les choix budgétaires du Conseil de l'Europe, associés parfois à la volonté de faire aboutir trop vite certains travaux,
conduisent à diminuer la part consacrée aux discussions intergouvernementales et à multiplier les travaux au sein de
comités restreints, auxquels ne participent que certains Etats. Cette méthode ne permet parfois pas toujours d'assurer un
consensus suffisant, ce qui entraîne une réouverture des discussions au niveau du comité directeur. Il convient de
consacrer le temps nécessaire aux discussions intergouvernementales.

7. Quels sont, à votre avis, les sujets prioritaires que ce comité devrait examiner ?
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Veuillez commenter brièvement :
- Parmi les sujets en cours, ceux relatifs à la preuve scientifique en matière pénale et ceux relatifs aux délinquants
dangereux, apparaissent d'un interêt particulier.

8. Voyez-vous la nécessité de renforcer l’interaction entre le Comité des Ministres et votre comité?

Veuillez commenter brièvement en donnant quelques indications concrètes :

- L'interaction entre le comité des Ministres et le CDPC passe d'abord par une bonne coordination au sein de chaque
délégation, qui fonctionne de manière satisfaisante pour la délégation française.

9. Souhaitez-vous exprimer d’autres remarques non encore formulées sur les travaux de votre
comité ?

Veuillez commenter brièvement :

10. Votre pays participe-t-il régulièrement aux travaux de ce comité ?
OUI

Merci de commenter brièvement:
- La France a occupé la vice-présidence du CDPC. Le représentant actuel est membre du bureau.

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