Legal instruments

This recommendation defines the public prosecution, its functions and the safeguards that are necessary for carrying out such functions, its relationship with the executive and...

The aim of this recommendation is to facilitate the return of rejected asylum seekers and to provide member states with certain guidelines when they return rejected asylum seekers from...

In order to combat terrorism, states often rely on the testimony of people who are closely connected to terrorist groups and who are more vulnerable than others to the use of intimidation...

This recommendation provides that the protection of privacy should apply, by means of the approriate safeguards, to all medical data, whether processed by a doctor or by another person....

Recommendation CM/Rec(2010)13 is the first text to lay down internationally agreed minimum privacy standards in the context of profiling, to be implemented both by the public and private...

Right to privacy in the context of employment The protection of personal data in the context of employment is fundamental to ensuring the full exercise of the right to privacy for...

The aim of the present recommendation is to offer policy makers a coherent, up-to-date set of principles and guidelines, as a common basis for the activities of the Council of Europe's...

The main aims of Recommendation CM/Rec(2009)13 on the nationality of children are to reduce statelessness of children, to facilitate their access to a nationality and to ensure their...

The texts contained in this publication identify the main organisational and management problems of criminal justice confronting member states and present possible measures to be taken...

The rule of law is inconceivable without access for all citizens to an independent and impartial tribunal established by law. In all states governed by the rule of law the administration...