Congress of Local and Regional Authorities information
Pan-European political assembly
Congress of Local and Regional Authorities
The logo of the Congress
Abbreviation
Congress
Formation
12 January 1957; 67 years ago (1957-01-12)
Type
IGO
Headquarters
Strasbourg, France
Membership
46 member states of the Council of Europe
Official language
English, French
President
Marc Cools
Secretary General
Mathieu Mori
President of the Chamber of Local Authorities
Bernd Vöhringer
President of the Chamber of Regions
Tunç Soyer
Parent organization
Council of Europe
Affiliations
European Union, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Website
www.coe.int/congress
Formerly called
Standing Conference of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe
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Palais de L'Europe: seat of the Congress
The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities is the pan-European political assembly representing local and regional authorities from the forty-six member states of the Council of Europe. Its role is to promote local and regional democracy, improve local and regional governance and strengthen authorities' self-government, according to the principles laid down in the European Charter of Local Self-Government. It is made up of two chambers, the Chamber of Local Authorities and the Chamber of Regions and holds its plenary sessions twice a year at the Palace of Europe in Strasbourg, where its permanent Secretariat is located.
Politics of the Council of Europe
Executive
Secretary General
Marija Pejčinović Burić
Committee of Ministers
President: Þórdís Kolbrún R. Gylfadóttir
Legislature
Parliamentary Assembly
President: Theodoros Roussopoulos
European Congress
President: Leendert Verbeek
Judiciary
European Court of Human Rights
President: Robert Spano
Commissioner for Human Rights
Dunja Mijatović
European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice
European Commission against Racism and Intolerance
Law
Convention on Human Rights
Convention on Cybercrime
Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism
Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings
Oviedo Convention
Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse
Istanbul Convention
Members
Albania
Andorra
Armenia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czechia
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Georgia (country)
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Moldova
Monaco
Montenegro
Netherlands
North Macedonia
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
San Marino
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
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The Congress is constituted by 612 members which hold elective office (they may be regional or municipal councillors, mayors or presidents of regional authorities) representing over 130,000 authorities in different states. It encourages the devolution and regionalization processes, as well as the trans-frontier co-operation between cities and regions The Congress conducts regular monitoring visits to all member states to appraise their implementation of the European Charter of Local Self-Government, observes the functioning of local and regional elections in its member states and creates international treaties that lay down common European standards to protect local authorities' rights.
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