The three statutory committees of the Congress met in Strasbourg on 15 October 2024, on the first day of the 47th session and all held exchanges on Congress action on human rights at local and regional levels.
The Monitoring Committee was updated about post-monitoring in Türkiye and Ireland, and about a fact-finding visit to Romania on 23 October for the last local elections in June. The Committee was also informed about recent election observation missions to Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina on the occasion of local elections in these two countries.
The Governance Committee elected Judith Compagner (Netherlands, EPP/CCE) as 5th Vice President and approved a report on "Water resources under stress: towards better local and regional governance" to be debated at the Congress session in March 2025. The Committee also approved the terms of reference for new reports on cultural heritage and memory, on history teaching at regional level and on innovative methods of action-oriented participation.
The Social Inclusion Committee approved a report on empowering local and regional authorities to combat trafficking of human beings, to be debated by the Congress in March 2025, and was updated about progress made towards the report on social housing innovations and the revision of the European Charter on the Participation of Young People in Local and Regional Life, as well as.
