The European Committee of Social Rights and cooperation between the Council of Europe and the European Union in social issues. Selected issues

Abstract

The aim of the article is to demonstrate that the ECSR remains one of the important organizational factors of the formally regulated cooperation of the Council of Europe and the European Union in the sphere of social fundamental rights. The analysis is dominated by the dogmatic-legal method. The paper includes an analysis of the formal basis of cooperation between the CoE and the EU, the specificity of their cooperation in the field of social rights, the analysis of the ECSR as a body of the ESC and its activity in cooperation with EU structures. The analyses carried out show that the framework of cooperation between the two organizations is formalised and the ECSR finds its place within it. At the same time, it has been shown that the Committee's role in cooperation with the EU and in promoting ESC standards - in view of the autonomy of the two organizations' legal systems - remains important, particularly at the level of organizational cooperation with EU institutions and bodies.