Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities

Prof. Dr. Dr. Rainer Hofmann is Professor of Public Law, Public International Law and European Law at Goethe University, Frankfurt, and President of German Branch of the International Law Association. He was member in respect of Germany of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities from 1998-2004 and from 2008-2012, serving as its President from 1998-2004 and from 2010-2012. He sits on the Executive and the Management Board of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency.Prof. Dr. Tove H. Malloy is Director at the European Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg, Germany, Adjunct Professor at the Europa-Universität-Flensburg and member in respect of Denmark of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, where she also serves as Gender Equality Rapporteur.Dr. Detlev Rein is an independent researcher in the field of minority protection and member in respect of Germany of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. He served as Head of Division for national minorities and regional languages in Germany and European policy on minorities at the German Federal Ministry of the Interior.

"The volume is a valuable snapshot of the monitoring work of the ACFC and a respectful analysis of the FCNM through the prism of the interpretations given by the ACFC throughout twenty years of practice. (...) The aim of the editors “to support all stakeholders and beneficiaries in their work with the FCNM” (p. XI) has been certainly fulfilled, with the remark that the volume addresses rather advanced readers, who already have background knowledge about the FCNM and the ACFC approach to minority protection."Ljubica Djordjević, European Yearbook of Minority Issues, Volume 18 (2019).

• PrefaceAbbreviations in the CommentariesPart 1: General ArticlesIntroductionRainer Hofmann, Tove H. Malloy and Detlev Rein1 Beyond Adhocism – Advancing Minority Rights through the United NationsAntti Korkeakivi2 The protection of minority rights by the European Union: the European Citizens’ Initiative as a test caseGabriel N. ToggenburgPart 2: Commentaries article-by-article3 Commentary of the Preamble of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesAlan Phillips4 Commentary of Article 1 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesRainer Hofmann5 Commentary of Article 2 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesRainer Hofmann6 Commentary of Article 3 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesStéphanie Marsal and Francesco Palermo7 Commentary of Article 4 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesBarbara Wilson8 Commentary of Article 5 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesPetra Roter9 Commentary of Article 6 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesDoris Angst10 Commentary of Article 7 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesAnna Fontaine11 Commentary of Article 8 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesTove H. Malloy12 Commentary of Article 9 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesGünther Rautz and Mahulena Hofmann13 Commentary of Article 10 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesRainer Hofmann14 Commentary of Article 11 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesRainer Hofmann15 Commentary of Article 12 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesSia Spiliopoulou Åkermark16 Commentary of Article 13 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesDetlev Rein17 Commentary of Article 14 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesBrigitta Busch18 Commentary of Article 15 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesTove H. Malloy19 Commentary of Article 16 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesTove H. Malloy20 Commentary of Articles 17 and 18 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesEmma Lantschner21 Commentary of Article 19 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesRainer Hofmann22 Commentary of Articles 20, 21, 22 and 23 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesHans-Joachim Heintze23 Commentary of Articles 24–26 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesDetlev Rein24 Commentary of Article 27 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesDetlev Rein25 Commentary of Article 28 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesDetlev Rein26 Commentary of Article 29 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesDetlev Rein27 Commentary of Article 30 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesDetlev Rein28 Commentary of Article 31 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesDetlev Rein29 Commentary of Article 32 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National MinoritiesDetlev ReinBibliography fcnm Commentary