The Committee of Experts on Terrorism, or CODEXTER, is an inter-governmental committee of experts of the

Council of Europe The Council of Europe (CoE; , CdE) is an international organisation with the goal of upholding human rights, democracy and the Law in Europe, rule of law in Europe. Founded in 1949, it is Europe's oldest intergovernmental organisation, represe ...

. It was founded in 2003 to replace the Multidisciplinary Group on International Action Against Terrorism. In 2018 CODEXTER became the Council of Europe Counter-Terrorism Committee. One of the principal functions of the organisation is to make profiles of each member's

legislative A legislature (, ) is a deliberative assembly with the legal authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country, nation or city on behalf of the people therein. They are often contrasted with the executive and judicial powers ...

and

institution An institution is a humanly devised structure of rules and norms that shape and constrain social behavior. All definitions of institutions generally entail that there is a level of persistence and continuity. Laws, rules, social conventions and ...

counter-terrorism Counterterrorism (alternatively spelled: counter-terrorism), also known as anti-terrorism, relates to the practices, military tactics, techniques, and strategies that governments, law enforcement, businesses, and intelligence agencies use to co ...

plans. These profiles are short reports on member states' counter-terrorism measures.

Criticism

Amnesty International Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says that it has more than ten million members a ...

has urged CODEXTER to delete the last paragraph of the organisation's Preamble, which attempts to define

terrorism Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violence during peacetime or in the context of war aga ...

, as it ''"does not sufficiently distinguish between unlawful acts and legitimate, non-violent opposition to the actions or non-action of states"''Amnesty International's representations on the February 2005 draft Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism
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