ECML in the Council of Europe
Founded in 1949, the Council of Europe is the oldest and geographically the largest of the European organisations. Its main domains of competence are human rights, legal affairs, social cohesion and education, culture and heritage, youth and sport. Eight countries - Austria, France, Greece, Liechtenstein, Malta, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Switzerland - founded the European Centre for Modern Languages in 8 April 1994 as an "Enlarged Partial Agreement" of the Council of Europe.