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The Committee of Experts on Terrorism, or CODEXTER, is an
inter-governmental In international relations, intergovernmentalism treats states (and national governments in particular) as the primary actors in the integration process. Intergovernmentalist approaches claim to be able to explain both periods of radical change i ...
committee of experts of the Council of Europe. 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 an assembly with the authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country or city. They are often contrasted with the executive and judicial powers of government. Laws enacted by legislatures are usually known ...
and institutional
counter-terrorism Counterterrorism (also spelled counter-terrorism), also known as anti-terrorism, incorporates the practices, military tactics, techniques, and strategies that governments, law enforcement, business, and intelligence agencies use to combat or ...
plans. These profiles are short reports on member states' counter-terrorism measures.


Criticism

Amnesty International 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 criminal violence to provoke a state of terror or fear, mostly with the intention to achieve political or religious aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violen ...
, 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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