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8. Project management: The overall responsibility for the project lies with the Secretariat of the Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men of the Parliamentary Assembly. It will be managed on a day to day basis by the Council of Europe Office in Strasbourg.
A mid-term report would be delivered at the end of the first year of the project, whilst a final written report would be presented no later than three months after the end of the project.

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Relatório elaborado pelo Deputado Mendes Bota, do PSD, relativo à sua participação na Conferência sobre ―Gender-specific data collection as a prerequisite for effective policies to combat violence against women”, organizada pela WAVE – Women Against Violence Europe, no âmbito do Protect II – Gender Stat Expert Group Meeting, da Assembleia Parlamentar do Conselho da Europa (APCE), que decorreu em Viena, nos dias 29 e 30 de Junho de 2011

Relatório n.º 43 No dia 30 de Junho de 2011 participei, na qualidade de orador convidado, na conferência acima descrita, e que contou com a presença da ministra federal da Áustria para os Assuntos das Mulheres e dos Serviços Civis, Gabriele Heinish-Hosek. A intervenção que ali produzi consta do Anexo do presente relatório. No final, fiz outra intervenção em resposta às questões que me foram colocadas pela audiência.

Assembleia da República, 30 de Junho de 2011.
O Deputado do PSD, José Mendes Bota.

ANEXO

REQUIREMENTS CONCERNING RESEARCH AND DATA COLLECTION IN THE ISTAMBUL CONVENTION

Presentation by Mr Mendes Bota, Chairperson of the Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe delivered at the conference about ―Gender-specific data collection as a prerequisite for effective policies to combat violence against women‖, organized by WAVE – Women Against Violence Europe, in the context of the Protect II – Gender Stat Expert Group Meeting, held in Vienna, on 30 June 2011

Dear Chairperson, ladies and gentlemen,

1. Opening: the Convention

It is a great pleasure addressing you today, not only because I have the opportunity to meet many friends and colleagues, including the organisers – WAVE – but also because I can present to you something I am extremely proud of: the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence.
The Convention is, in itself, a historical event, since it is the first international legally-binding instrument in the world to provide for a comprehensive set of measures in the field of preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence.
Since the 11th of May this year, the Convention is open for signature, and can be signed by Council of Europe member states, the European Union, or any other country – subject to a special procedure. So far it has