Standard-setting Through Monitoring? : The Role of Council of Europe Expert Bodies in the Development of Human rights.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter I Mechanisms for monitoring compliance with human rights in the Council of Europe -- 1. The human rights order at universal, regional and national level -- 1.1. Standard-setting in the field of human rights -- 1.2. Monitoring compliance and enforcement procedures -- 2. Monitoring in the Council of Europe by institutional bodies -- 2.1. The Secretary General -- 2.2. The Committee of Ministers -- 2.3. The Parliamentary Assembly -- 2.4. The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights -- 3. The organisational framework for specific monitoring mechanisms in the Council of Europe -- 3.1. The former Directorate of Monitoring -- 3.2. The reform of the Secretariat's structure -- 4. Monitoring by independent expert bodies and hybrid systems -- 4.1. The four bodies chosen for detailed examination -- 4.2. The Committee of Experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (CECL) -- 4.3. The Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) -- 5. Monitoring by peer-review systems -- 5.1. The Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) -- 5.2. The Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism (MONEYVAL) -- 6. Conclusions -- Chapter II Comparison of the legal framework, mandate and composition of the Council of Europe expert bodies -- 1. Comparing the legal framework, mandate and composition of Council of Europe expert bodies -- 2. ACFC -- 2.1. Legal framework -- 2.2. Mandate -- 2.3. Composition of the expert body -- 3. CPT -- 3.1. Legal framework -- 3.2. Mandate -- 3.3. Composition of the expert body -- 4. ECRI -- 4.1. Legal framework -- 4.2. Mandate -- 4.3. Composition of the expert body -- 5. ECSR -- 5.1. Legal framework -- 5.2. Mandate -- 5.3. Composition of the expert body.

6. Conclusions -- Chapter III Comparison of the monitoring procedures of the Council of Europe expert bodies -- 1. Comparing the monitoring procedures of the Council of Europe expert bodies -- 2. ACFC -- 2.1. Basic features of the monitoring procedure -- 2.2. Periodicity of monitoring and reactive mechanisms -- 2.3. Sources of information -- 2.4. Publicity, transparency and confidentiality -- 3. CPT -- 3.1. Basic features of the monitoring procedure -- 3.2. Periodicity of monitoring and reactive mechanisms -- 3.3. Sources of information -- 3.4. Publicity, transparency and confidentiality -- 4. ECRI -- 4.1. Basic features of the monitoring procedure -- 4.2. Periodicity of monitoring and reactive mechanisms -- 4.3. Sources of information -- 4.4. Publicity, transparency and confidentiality -- 5. ECSR -- 5.1. Basic features of the monitoring procedure -- 5.2. Periodicity of monitoring and reactive mechanisms -- 5.3. Sources of information -- 5.4. Publicity, transparency and confidentiality -- 6. Conclusions -- Chapter IV Implementation standards developed by the Council of Europe expert bodies -- 1. Analysing the implementation standards developed by the Council of Europe expert bodies -- 2. Defining human rights implementation standards -- 3. The legitimacy of implementation standards developed by Council of Europe expert bodies -- 3.1. State consent inducing the legitimacy of implementation standards -- 3.2. Authority of experts inducing the legitimacy of implementation standards -- 3.3. Processes and procedures inducing the legitimacy of implementation standards -- 3.4. Quality of output inducing the legitimacy of implementation standards -- 4. Implementation standards developed by Council of Europe expert bodies -- 4.1. ACFC -- 4.2. CPT -- 4.3. ECRI -- 4.4. ECSR.

5. Typology of implementation standards developed by Council of Europe expert bodies -- 6. Conclusions -- Chapter V The impact of implementation standards of Council of Europe expert bodies in member states -- 1. Assessing the impact of implementation standards of Council of Europe expert bodies -- 2. The relevance of implementation standards for the development of the European human rights order -- 2.1. Implementation standards: non-law, soft law or hard law? -- 2.2. Implementation standards as an alternative to treaty-making? -- 3. Tracing the expert bodies' dialogue with member states to measure the impact of implementation standards -- 3.1. Analytical framework for the assessment of the expert bodies' dialogue with member states -- 3.2. Case study typology -- 4. The role of human rights indicators for measuring the human rights performance of Council of Europe member states -- 4.1. Indicators: a prerequisite for measuring the implementation of human rights -- 4.2. Implementation standards informing the development of indicators and benchmarks -- 5. Conclusions -- CONCLUSIONS -- References -- About the authors -- Sales agents.

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