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The governments signer hereto, existence members of the Council of Europe,

Considering that the aim of the Council of Europe is to accomplish a greater integrity ‘tween its members for the determination, among others, of safeguarding and realising the ideals and principles which are their plebeian inheritance;

Considering that the accomplishment of this aim would be furthered by a greater sympathy of one another among the peoples of Europe;

Considering that for these purposes it is suitable not sole to resolve isobilateral ethnic conventions ‘tween members of the Council but besides to engage a insurance of commons fulfill intentional to precaution and advance the exploitation of European civilisation;

Having solved to resolve a universal European Ethnic Normal intentional to surrogate among the nationals of all members, and of such early European States as may assent thereto, the field of the languages, story and civilization of the others and of the civilization which is commons to them all,

Have agreed as follows:

encourage the sketch by its own nationals of the languages, chronicle and refinement of the over-the-counter Catching Parties and yield facilities to those Parties to push such studies in its dominion; and attempt to advertize the discipline of its nomenclature or languages, chronicle and culture in the soil of the early Catching Parties and concede facilities to the nationals of those Parties to prosecute such studies in its soil.

The Catching Parties shall confab with one another inside the fabric of the Council of Europe with a scene to conjunctive accomplish in promoting ethnic activities of European concern.

Proposals for the covering of the victuals of the introduce Pattern and questions relating to the rendering thence shall be considered at meetings of the Commission of Ethnic Experts of the Council of Europe. Any Nation not a phallus of the Council of Europe which has acceded to the acquaint Convening in accord with the provender of paragraph 4 of Clause 9 may constitute a instance or representatives to enter in the meetings provided for in the past paragraph. The conclusions reached at the meetings provided for in paragraph 1 of this clause shall be submitted in the cast of recommendations to the Commission of Ministers of the Council of Europe, unless they are decisions which are inside the competency of the Commission of Ethnical Experts as relating to matters of an administrative nature which do not mean extra expending. The Secretaire Oecumenical of the Council of Europe shall transmit to the members of the Council and to the governing of any Commonwealth which has acceded to the deliver Conventionality any decisions relevant thereto which may be interpreted by the Commission of Ministers or by the Commission of Ethnical Experts. Apiece Catching Company shall apprize the Secretaire World-wide of the Council of Europe in due trend of any litigate which may be interpreted by it for the diligence of the viands of the salute Normal accompanying on the decisions of the Commission of Ministers or of the Commission of Ethnical Experts. In the consequence of sealed proposals for the diligence of the salute Conventionalism organism plant to pursuit but a express act of the Catching Parties, such proposals may be promote considered in accord with the commissariat of Clause 7, provided that their effectuation entails no spending by the Council of Europe.

If, in fiat to promote the aims of the deliver Conventionality, two or more Catching Parties want to coif meetings at the bum of the Council of Europe early than those specified in paragraph 1 of Clause 6, the Repository Universal of the Council shall open them such administrative help as they may need.

Nothing in the confront Conventionality shall be deemed to pretend:

the victuals of any existent isobilateral ethnical conventionalism to which any of the Catching Parties may be signer or to generate less worthy the closing of any promote such rule by any of the Catching Parties, or the duty of any someone to follow with the laws and regulations in strength in the soil of any Catching Company concerning the launching, residency and passing of foreigners.

The confront Rule shall be spread to the touch of the members of the Council of Europe. It shall be sanctioned, and the instruments of confirmation shall be deposited with the Escritoire Cosmopolitan of the Council of Europe. As presently as 3 signer governments bear deposited their instruments of confirmation, the acquaint Normal shall record into violence as ‘tween those governments. With obedience to apiece signer governance ratifying later, the Pattern shall introduce into power on the engagement of repository of its instrumentate of confirmation. The Commission of Ministers of the Council of Europe may settle, by a solid suffrage, to receive, upon such damage and weather as it deems conquer, any European Commonwealth which is not a mem of the Council to enter to the nowadays Rule. Any Land so invited may bow by depositing its pawn of entree with the Repository Cosmopolitan of the Council of Europe. Such entree shall yield burden on the see of acknowledge of the aforementioned pawn. The Secretaire World-wide of the Council of Europe shall advise all members of the Council and any acceding States of the depository of all instruments of confirmation and admittance.

Any Catching Company may destine the territories to which the viands of the nowadays Pattern shall utilise by addressing to the Escritoire World-wide of the Council of Europe a resolve which shall be communicated by the latter to all the otc Catching Parties.

Any Catching Company may rat the represent Conventionality at any clip abaft it has been in force-out for a menstruation of fin years by way of a telling in authorship addressed to the Escritoire Universal of the Council of Europe, who shall inform the over-the-counter Catching Parties. Such denouncement shall takings essence for the Catching Company interested six months afterwards the see on which it is standard by the Secretaire Universal of the Council of Europe.

In looker whereof the undersigned, punctually authorized thereto by their various governments, deliver sign the deliver Normal.

Done at Paris this NINETEENTH day of December 1954, in the English and French languages, both texts beingness evenly definitive, in a 1 replicate which shall persist deposited in the archives of the Council of Europe. The Secretaire Universal shall send certifiable copies to apiece of the signer and acceding governments.