Committee of Experts on Terrorism

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The Committee of Experts on Terrorism, or CODEXTER, is an inter-governmental committee of experts of the Council of Europe. [1]

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It was founded in 2003 to replace the Multidisciplinary Group on International Action Against Terrorism . [2] In 2018 CODEXTER became the Council of Europe Counter-Terrorism Committee . [3]

One of the principal functions of the organisation is to make profiles of each member's legislative and institutional counter-terrorism plans. [4] These profiles are short reports on member states' counter-terrorism measures. [5]

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Criticism

Amnesty International has urged CODEXTER to delete the last paragraph of the organisation's Preamble, which attempts to define terrorism, as it "does not sufficiently distinguish between unlawful acts and legitimate, non-violent opposition to the actions or non-action of states" [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Council of Europe website Archived 2008-03-04 at the Wayback Machine accessed 4 March 2008
  2. ↑ Council of Europe website accessed 4 March 2008
  3. ↑ [https://www.coe.int/en/web/counter-terrorism/codexter} accessed 1 June 2019
  4. ↑ United Kingdom Home Office website Archived 2008-10-06 at the Wayback Machine accessed 4 March 2008
  5. ↑ "Committee of Experts on Terrorism (Codexter) - Profiles on Counter-Terrorist Capacity" accessed 4 March 2008
  6. ↑ Amnesty International’s representations on the February 2005 draft Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism, accessed 4 March 2008 via Google's cache of the page


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