The Pilot Project on State Practice regarding State Succession and Issues of Recognition was approved by the Ad Hoc Committee of Legal Advisers (CAHDI) of the Council of Europe in March 1994. It covers the period from 1989 to 1995. 16 member States of the Council of Europe submitted national reports, namely - Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, the Slovak Republic, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
The report is complemented with substantial documentary appendices, including selected texts of the Pilot Project: national contributions in the form of short national files, original documents sent in by the respective national rapporteurs, excerpts from such documents, etc.
This selection is intended to be as representative as possible of the Pilot Project and therefore covers not only the different cases of state succession and the different issues addressed in the core of the report, but also other cases.