"УСТАВ СОВЕТА ЕВРОПЫ" (ETS N 1) [рус., англ.] (Принят в г. Лондоне 05.05.1949)

requires additional expenditure shall not be considered as adopted by the Committee of Ministers unless the Committee has also approved the corresponding estimates for such additional expenditure.
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<*> Paragraph e of Article 38 was added in May, 1951.

Article 39

The Secretary General shall each year notify the government of each Member of the amount of its contribution, and each Member shall pay to the Secretary General the amount of its contribution, which shall be deemed to be due on the date of its notification, not later than six months after that date.

Chapter VIII - PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES

Article 40

a. The Council of Europe, representatives of Members and the Secretariat shall enjoy in the territories of its Members such privileges and immunities as are reasonably necessary for the fulfilment of their functions. These immunities shall include immunity for all Representatives to the Consultative Assembly from arrest and all legal proceedings in the territories of all Members, in respect of words spoken and votes cast in the debates of the Assembly or its committees or commissions.
b. The Members undertake as soon as possible to enter into agreement for the purpose of fulfilling the provisions of paragraph a above. For this purpose the Committee of Ministers shall recommend to the Governments of Members the acceptance of an Agreement defining the privileges and immunities to be granted in the territories of all Members. In addition a special Agreement shall be concluded with the Government of the French Republic defining the privileges and immunities which the Council shall enjoy at its seat.

Chapter IX - AMENDMENTS

Article 41

a. Proposals for the amendment of this Statute may be made in the Committee of Ministers or, in the conditions provided for in Article 23, in the Consultative Assembly.
b. The Committee shall recommend and cause to be embodied in a Protocol those amendments which it considers to be desirable.
c. An amending Protocol shall come into force when it has been signed and ratified on behalf of two-thirds of the Members.
d. Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraphs of this Article, amendments to Articles 23 - 35, 38 and 39 which have been Approved by the Committee and by the Assembly, shall come into force on the date of the certificate of the Secretary General, transmitted to the Governments of Members, certifying that they have been so approved. This paragraph shall not operate until the conclusion of the second ordinary session of the Assembly.

Chapter X - FINAL PROVISIONS

Article 42

a. This Statute shall be ratified. Ratifications shall be deposited with the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
b. The present Statute shall come into force as soon as seven instruments of ratification have been deposited. The Government of the United Kingdom shall transmit to all signatory Governments a certificate declaring that the Statute has entered into force and giving the names of the Members of the Council of Europe on that date.
c. Thereafter each other signatory shall become a party to this Statute as from the date of the deposit of its instrument of ratification.
In witness whereof the undersigned, being duly authorised thereto, have signed the present Statute.

Done at London, this 5th day of May 1949, in English and French, both texts being equally authentic, in a single copy which shall remain deposited in the archives of the Government of the United Kingdom which shall transmit certified copies to the other signatory governments.

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