This need is clearly present also in Recommendation of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Minsters 2009 (11) on principles concerning continuing powers of attorney and advance directives for incapacitythat aims to promote self-determination for capable adults in the event of their future incapacity, by means of continuing powers of attorney and advance directives (Principle 1, Promotion of self-determination) and that provides that the attorney, as far as possible, informs and consults the granter on an on-going basis. The attorney, as far as possible, ascertains and takes account of the past and present wishes and feeling of the granter and gives them due respect