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The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities Database
-- Articles

The Framework Convention Database contains pdf-files for each Article / Paragraph of the Convention as well as a file for the Preamble. The Article / Paragraph files are structured as follows:

Text of Article / Paragraph

  1. Ad Hoc Committee for the Protection of National Minorities (CAHMIN) Explanatory Report
  2. Drafting History
  3. Other International Texts
    1. Council of Europe
    2. OSCE
    3. United Nations
    4. European Union
    5. Miscellaneous
      1. ILO
      2. OAS

  1. Reservations and Declarations
  2. State Reports, Opinions of the Advisory Committee, Comments by the States, Resolutions adopted by the Committee of Ministers
  3. Section E. also contains excerpts from the "Outline for reports to be submitted pursuant to Article 25, paragraph 1 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities".
  4. Other Council of Europe Documents
    Section F contains other CoE documents, which are related to the state parties.

You will see a "table of contents" at the beginning of each file. The table of contents also lists all the countries that have (a) submitted reservations and / or declarations (D) and (b) countries whose state reports have already been submitted and considered (E).

Articles updated in february 2005
This documents can only be read with the Acrobat Reader.

Download Preamble (PDF file 103 KB)
Download Article 1 FCNM (PDF file 719 KB)
Download Article 2 FCNM (PDF file 92 KB)
Download Article 3.1 FCNM (PDF file 388 KB)
Download Article 3.2 FCNM (PDF file 92 KB)
Download Article 4.1 FCNM (PDF file 228 KB)
Download Article 4.2 FCNM (PDF file 16 KB)
Download Article 4.3 FCNM (PDF file 147 KB)
Download Article 5.1 FCNM (PDF file 570 KB)
Download Article 5.2 FCNM (PDF file 144 KB)
Download Article 6.1 FCNM (PDF file 348 KB)
Download Article 6.2 FCNM (PDF file 174 KB)
Download Article 7 FCNM (PDF file 203 KB)
Download Article 8 FCNM (PDF file 270 KB)
Download Article 9.1 FCNM (PDF file 323 KB)
Download Article 9.2 FCNM (PDF file 143 KB)
Download Article 9.3 FCNM (PDF file 324 KB)
Download Article 9.4 FCNM (PDF file 163 KB)
Download Article 10.1 FCNM (PDF file 369 KB)
Download Article 10.2 FCNM (PDF file 293 KB)
Download Article 10.3 FCNM (PDF file 209 KB)
Download Article 11.1 FCNM (PDF file 247 KB)
Download Article 11.2 FCNM (PDF file 118 KB)
Download Article 11.3 FCNM (PDF file 167 KB)
Download Article 12.1 FCNM (PDF file 629 KB)
Download Article 12.2 FCNM (PDF file 193 KB)
Download Article 12.3 FCNM (PDF file 185 KB)
Download Article 13.1 FCNM (PDF file 225 KB)
Download Article 13.2 FCNM (PDF file 88 KB)
Download Article 14.1 FCNM (PDF file 605 KB)
Download Article 14.2 FCNM (PDF file 230 KB)
Download Article 14.3 FCNM (PDF file 95 KB)
Download Article 15 FCNM (PDF file 864 KB)
Download Article 16 FCNM (PDF file 222 KB)
Download Article 17.1 FCNM (PDF file 231 KB)
Download Article 17.2 FCNM (PDF file 124 KB)
Download Article 18.1 FCNM (PDF file 213 KB)
Download Article 18.2 FCNM (PDF file 130 KB)
Download Article 19 FCNM (PDF file 119 KB)
Download Article 20 FCNM (PDF file 109 KB)
Download Article 21 FCNM (PDF file 110 KB)
Download Article 22 FCNM (PDF file 106 KB)
Download Article 23 FCNM (PDF file 93 KB)
Download Article 24.1 FCNM (PDF file 49 KB)
Download Article 24.2 FCNM (PDF file 14 KB)
Download Article 25.1 FCNM (PDF file 20 KB)
Download Article 25.2 FCNM (PDF file 16 KB)
Download Article 25.3 FCNM (PDF file 15 KB)
Download Article 26.1 FCNM (PDF file 360 KB)
Download Article 26.2 FCNM (PDF file 17 KB)
Download Article 27 FCNM (PDF file 21 KB)
Download Article 28.1 FCNM (PDF file 20 KB)
Download Article 28.2 FCNM (PDF file 18 KB)
Download Article 29.1 FCNM (PDF file 20 KB)
Download Article 29.2 FCNM (PDF file 17 KB)
Download Article 30.1 FCNM (PDF file 83 KB)
Download Article 30.2 FCNM (PDF file 17 KB)
Download Article 30.3 FCNM (PDF file 17 KB)
Download Article 31.1 FCNM (PDF file 14 KB)
Download Article 31.2 FCNM (PDF file 15 KB)
Download Article 32 FCNM (PDF file 21 KB)


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