This submission is addressed to the Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH) in the context of its work following on from the Informal Ministerial Conference as set out in the Ministers’ Deputies’ decisions of 10 December 2025.3 The CDDH has been asked “to prepare elements for a political declaration reaffirming the obligation to ensure the effective enjoyment of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights to everyone within the jurisdiction of member States in the context of the contemporary challenges posed both by irregular migration and by the situation of foreigners convicted of serious offences, taking duly into account in particular governments’ fundamental responsibility to ensure national security and public safety”. Given this is a matter of significant public importance, we make this submission in good faith, in the interests of contributing to a thorough consideration of the substantive issues at stake, as well as the potential consequences of the eventual political declaration.