17. Therefore, the Assembly calls upon the member States to invest sufficient additional resources into theOrganisation to allow it to deliver the results which the Summit has indicated. It is convinced that the need tomatch resources to ambition will remain at the forefront of the discussions in the Committee of Ministersduring the 2024-2027 budgetary process.

18. The Assembly welcomes all the work put in over recent years to modernise and reform the workingmethods and governance of the Council of Europe, led by the Committee of Ministers, the Secretary Generaland the Deputy Secretary General, including the introduction of the Result-based Management Strategy aswell as the implementation of the People Strategy. It welcomes the approval by the Committee of Ministers ofthe Capital Master Plan which, inter alia provides for the refurbishment and modernisation of the AssemblyChamber through 2023-2024.

19. The Assembly recalls its own initiatives to modernise the Assembly’s tools and working methods,including through the pace-apps application, with a view to attain the objective of “paper-less” operation, thusreducing the Assembly’s – and the Council of Europe’s – costs as well as its carbon footprint in an overalleffort to address the environmental challenge. Digital modernisation will therefore continue to be high on theAssembly’s own list of priorities during the 2024-2027 programme and budget period, as will the best-practicemanagement of its staff and budgetary resources in line with the reforms put in place in the wholeOrganisation.

Opinion 301 (2023)

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