 Each conference is devoted to one or more themes.1st conference, Paris (France), 1961

Draft convention on road traffic offences

Draft recommendation on rights of prisoners

Juvenile delinquency

Council of Europe activities in the field of criminological research

2nd conference, Rome (Italy), 1962

Draft convention on supervision on conditionally released offenders

Exchange of information on bills relating to penal and prison matters

Juvenile delinquency

Harmonisation of penal provisions of concern of the Rome treaty

Studies on the international validity of penal sentences

European Convention on Human Rights

Draft uniform law on arbitration

3rd conference, Dublin (Ireland), 1964

Measures to promote the comparative study of laws

Information on foreign law

The uniform interpretation of European treaties

State immunity

After care for conditionally sentenced or conditionally released offenders

4th conference, Berlin (Germany), 1966

Law reform

Exchange of young lawyers

Prevention of new divergencies between the laws of member States

Standardisation of judicial documents

Short term treatment of offenders

Improving the efficacy of legal instruments for crime control at international level

5th conference, London (United Kingdom), 1968

6th conference, The Hague (Netherlands), 1970

7th conference, Basel (Switzerland), 1972

8th conference, Lidingö, (Sweden), 1973

9th conference, Vienna (Austria), 1974

1975, informal conference, Obernai (France)

10th conference, Brussels (Belgium), 1976

Current and future developments in family law

Alternative measures to imprisonment

Mass media legislation in member States

Measures to combat new forms of concerted acts of violence

11th conference, Copenhagen (Denmark), 1978

Problems posed by prisoners of foreign nationality

Access to justice

How can modern administration meet the needs of the citizen

The death penalty

Forfeiture of rights in penal law

1979, informal conference, Aix-la-Chapelle (France)

12th conference, Luxembourg, 1980

1981, informal conference, Montreux (Switzerland)

13th conference, Athens (Greece), 1982

1983, informal conference Rome (Italy)

14th conference, Madrid (Spain), 1984

1985, informal conference, Edinburgh (United Kingdom) 

15th Conference