NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations

ALTE, an INGO with participatory status in the Council of Europe was recently granted by the UN Committee on NGO's the title of NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC). Non-governmental organizations attaining consultative status with ECOSOC, enter into a mutually beneficial working relationship with the United Nations. The rights and privileges enumerated in detail in ECOSOC resolution 1996/31 enable qualifying organisations to make a contribution to the work programmes and goals of the United Nations by serving as technical experts, advisers and consultants to governments and Secretariat; as advocacy groups, they espouse UN themes, implementing plans of action, programmes and declarations adopted by the UN. In concrete terms this entails their participation in ECOSOC and its various subsidiary bodies through attendance at meetings, and also through oral interventions and written statements on agenda items of those bodies.

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Proceedings of the ALTE Barcelona Conference, July 2001

The latest volume in the Studies in Language Testing series focuses on the ALTE Conference, European Language Testing in a Global Context, which was held in Barcelona in 2001 in support of the European Year of Languages.

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January 2004

International Non Governmental Organisation (INGO)
ALTE has been granted International Non Governmental Organisation (INGO) participatory status with the Council of Europe. This status is granted to organisations which are particularly representative in their field of competence and which have members in a significant number of countries throughout greater Europe. ALTE’s new participatory status involves attending seminars, meetings and conferences of interest to its work; providing documents, information or opinions relating to its own field of interest and it may be invited to provide expert advice on Council of Europe policies, programmes and actions.

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