English: APPENDIX II Recommendation of the Commissioner For Human Rights concerning the rights of aliens wishing to enter a Council of Europe member State and the enforcement of expulsion orders The Commissioner for Human Rights, acting in accordance with Resolution (99) 50 of the Committee of Ministers on the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights adopted on 7 May 1999 ("the Resolution"), Having noted during his various trips and visits to Council of Europe member States that a problem common to most of them is the precarious legal and human itarian situation of aliens wishing the enter their territory; Recalling that this problem has already been the subject of many studies at the Council of Europe and, in particular, several recommendations of the Committee of Ministers; Noting, however, that there has been no significant improvement in the situation since the adoption by the Committee of Ministers of Recommendation R(94)5 on "guidelines to inspire practices of the member States of the Council of Europe concerning the arrival of asylum seekers at European airports"; Recalling that the conditions in which asylum -seekers and other people are held in airport waiting areas have been the subject of a number of surveys carried out by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman o Degrading Treatment or Punishment r ("the CPT"); Bearing in mind the work currently being carried out by the Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Migration, Refugees and Demography to produce a report on "Rendering more humane the procedures for expellingillegal immigrants and rejected asylum seekers"; Recalling the seminar organised by the Commissioner for Human Rights on "Human rights standards applying to the holding of aliens wishing to enter a Council of Europe member State and to the enforcement of expulsion orders", which took place from 20 to 22 June 2001 in Strasbourg; Recalling that the seminar was attended by representatives of national and international NGOs, government experts, representatives of professional trade unions, including the Association belge des pilotes de lignes (Belgian association of airline pilots), representatives of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, as well as members of the Council of Europe’ Parliamentary Assembly, the Registry of the European Court of Huma Rights, and s n the Secretariat of the CPT; Recalling that during the seminar the participants studied the legal framework and practice with respect to foreigners arriving at the border of a member State, particularly in relation to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights ("the ECHR"), the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, and the relevant provisions of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; Considering that Article 3e of the Resolution states that the Commissioner for Human Rights shall "identify possible shortcomings in the law and practice of member States concerning the compliance with human rights as embodied in the instruments of
French: M. Miguel Angel Martinez, Président du Centre Européen pour l’Interdépendance et la Solidarité Mondiales 17.00-17.30 17.30-18.00 Présentation des conclusions des Rapporteurs (M.