70 Years of Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Europe
1st Edition
Published on 28. May 2021
139 pages
978-3-7489-2626-9 (ISBN)
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Die Jahre 2019 und 2020 boten die Gelegenheit, vier Jubiläen zu begehen: Am 4. November 2020 war es 70 Jahre her, dass die EMRK unterzeichnet wurde. Zehn Jahre später nahm der EGMR seine Arbeit auf. Der Europarat feierte am 5. Mai 2019 sein 70-jähriges Bestehen. Schließlich konnte die 1990 gegründete Europäische Kommission für Demokratie durch Recht (Venedig-Kommission) ihren 30. Geburtstag feiern. Diese Jubiläen boten Anlass, zu untersuchen, wie diese Institutionen dazu beigetragen haben, Menschenrechte und Rechtsstaatlichkeit in Europa zu einer gemeinsamen Angelegenheit zu machen, und wie es um sie heute bestellt ist. Der vorliegende Band enthält die Beiträge des Walter-Hallstein-Symposiums vom 5. und 6. März 2020 zu diesem Thema.
Mit Beiträgen von
Veronika Bi´lkova´, Thomas Giegerich, Rainer Hofmann, Stefan Kadelbach, Wilfried Loth, Angelika Nußberger, Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque und Stefanie Schmahl.
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Content
- Cover
- Introduction: 70 Years of Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Europe
- A. Changes of Paradigm in International Relations, and the Omnipresence of "Crisis"
- B. Developments in International Law
- C. The Rule of Law and the Council of Europe
- D. Outlook
- The Origins of Human Rights Protection in the Council of Europe
- A. Introduction
- B. The Formation of the Council of Europe
- C. The Project of a European Human Rights Convention
- D. The Negotiations in the Council of Europe
- E. A Common Ground
- The Past and Future of the European Convention of Human Rights and its Protection
- A short comment
- Procedural Rights and Article 6 ECHR
- A. Introduction
- B. Historical Background
- C. Scope of Article 6 ECHR
- I. Applicability ratione materiae
- 1. Civil Rights and Obligations
- 2. Criminal Charges
- 3. Remaining Gaps
- II. Applicability ratione loci
- D. Procedural Guarantees in Detail
- I. Right of Access to an Independent and Impartial Tribunal Established by Law
- II. Principles of a Fair Hearing within a Reasonable Time
- III. Principles of a Public Hearing and Public Pronouncement of Judgments
- IV. Specific Procedural Rights in Criminal Proceedings
- 1. Prompt Information on Charge and Opportunity to Prepare for Defence
- 2. Effectiveness of Defence and Legal Assistance
- 3. Principle of Equality of Arms, Right to an Interpreter and Other Procedural Safeguards
- E. Effects of the Procedural Rights of Article 6 ECHR on National Legal Systems
- F. Effects of the Procedural Rights of Article 6 on the European Union Legal Order
- G. Conclusion
- Whither Treaty-Monitoring in the Council of Europe?
- A. Introduction: Standard Treaty-Monitoring Procedures
- B. Monitoring in the ECHR - The Gold Standard of Human Rights Protection?
- I. Original Version of the Monitoring System and Its Reform by Protocol No. 11 of 1994
- II. Need for Reform
- 1. Mitigating the Overload of the ECtHR
- a) Measures that Have Been Taken: Protocol No. 14 and Interlaken Process
- b) Further Measures that Need to Be Taken
- aa) Expulsion of the Worst Offenders from the System
- bb) Re-establishment of the European Commission of Human Rights
- cc) Reduction of Number of Judges of Chambers and the Grand Chamber
- dd) Election of Additional Judges
- ee) Enlargement of Academic Staff of the ECtHR
- ff) Introduction of Discretionary Acceptance Procedure
- gg) Introduction of Class Action Applications by NGOs
- 2. Enhancing the Execution of Judgments of the ECtHR
- C. Monitoring in the European Social Charter
- I. Characteristics of the ESC and the ESC (rev.)
- II. Examination of State Reports
- III. System of Collective Complaints
- IV. Further Improvements of the Monitoring Process
- 1. Introduction of an Individual (Victim) Complaint Procedure
- 2. Direct Effect of ESC/ESC (rev.) Rights in the Legal Orders of States Parties
- 3. Merger of the ESC/ESC (rev.) and the ECHR?
- D. Other Monitoring Systems
- I. Protection of Minority Rights under the Languages Charter and the Framework Convention
- II. Recent Examples of Monitoring Mechanisms with and without Bodies of Independent Experts
- 1. The Warsaw and Istanbul Conventions: State Reporting to GRETA and GREVIO
- 2. The Lanzarote and Santiago de Compostela Conventions: Committees of the Parties with Extended Membership
- 3. Data Protection
- 4. Partial Overlap with the ECHR Enables Applications to the ECtHR
- E. The Actual and Potential Role of the EU in the Monitoring of CoE Treaties
- F. Conclusions: Towards Ensuring More Effective and Coherent Implementation of Human Rights Obligations
- The Council of Europe and the Rule of Law - The Venice Commission
- A. Introduction
- B. Introducing the Actor - the Venice Commission
- C. Setting the Scene - the Council of Europe and the Rule of Law
- D. Promoting the Concept - The VC Studies on the Rule of Law
- E. Identifying the Threats - the VC Opinions and the Rule of Law
- F. Concluding Remarks
- Authors
