EUROPEAN & INTERNATIONAL LAW
PART 1: INTRODUCTION TO EUROPEAN LAW
COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
De video geeft uitleg over de ontvankelijkheidscriteria waaraan elk verzoek moet voldoen om door het Hof
verder te worden onderzocht. Het Europees Hof voor de Rechten van de Mens is een Europees gerechtshof
waar individuen, groepen, organisaties en landen een klacht kunnen indienen tegen elk van de 46 lidstaten van
de Raad van Europa.
The admissibility1 of an application
The European Court of Human Right rejects around 90% of all applications received as inadmissible. They have
lot of small and big rules. Many of the legal advisers need a better knowledge of the admissibility requirements.
1. Application form and Rule 47 of the Rules of Court
The Court has his own rules.
Rule 47: Application form: provide all the information which is request in the application form; summary of
your case, enclosed all relevant supporting documents,..
Application must not be anonymous provide your name as an applicant, necessary for identification; do you
want to be anonymous you need to put your first letters – Court will make the decision of they agreed with the
anonymous, then the name doesn't show up anywhere online.
You must state the reasons for your request.
2. Exhaustion of domestic remedies and six-month time-limit (Article 35 § 1 of the Convention)
You must submit a completed application form before the end of the mandatory six-month time-limit. If you
failed to do so your applications are admissible. If isn’t complete, does not stop the six-month time-limit. Send
your application form by post.
Six-month starts to run from the date of the final domestic decision. The fact that the last day of the six-month
time-limit ends on a Saturday, Sunday or a public holiday does not alter this time limit.
As far as exhaustion of domestic remedies is concerned, you must use all remedies in your State which provide
redress for the situation you are complaining about.
In addition, you must comply with the applicable rules and procedures of national law.
You have to mention at least one which convention provision was veiled.
3. Abuse of the right of application (Article 35 § 3 of the Convention)
Abuse of the right of application leads also to immiscibility.
Your application may be declared inadmissible for abuse of the right of application. This is the case if you
mislead the Court by submitting an application under a false name, or by falsify certain documents, by use of
abusive language.
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the fact of being considered satisfactory and acceptable in a law court
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, 4. Application already submitted to the Court or another international body (Article 35 § 2 of the
Convention);
Your application may be declared inadmissible if the Strasbourg Court has already examined an application
previously brought by you, relating to the same facts and the same complaints.
5. Victim status (Article 34 of the Convention)
It’s important to have victim status.
You can only invoke a violation if you are the victim of the violation. You may be a direct victim. For example, if
you are a victim of ill-treatment in prison which the domestic court hasn’t recognized or condemned or for
which you have not received sufficient redress. You can be an indirect victim or potential victim (risk of
deportation).
When a victim died before the court, somebody can take place in; indirect victim.
6. State liability (Ratione personae)( Article 35 § 3 of the Convention)
The violation which you complain about must have been committed by the Respondent State in question or in
some way attributable to it.
If your complaint is against EU Member States in relation to their implementation of EU law, your application
may be declared admissible.
7. Territorial jurisdiction (Ratione loci) (Article 35 § 3 of the Convention)
The violation which you complain about must have occurred within the territorial jurisdiction of the Member
State concerned or in a territory effectively controlled by it.
8. Temporal jurisdiction (Ratione temporis) (Article 35 § 3 of the Convention)
The acts or the facts complained of must have occurred after the date of entry into force of the Convention in
the respondent state of question. If something happened, case was closed – you cannot make an application.
9. Subject-matter of the case (Ratione materiae) (Article 35 § 3 of the Convention)
You must invoke a right which is protected under the Convention or its Protocols such as the right to life or the
right to an effective remedy.
The right to a fair trial
10. No significant disadvantage (Article 35 § 3 (b) of the Convention)
Your application may be declared inadmissible if you have suffered no significant disadvantage. This may be
because of the insignificant financial element to your claim. So, for example, if you complain about non-
enforcement of a judgement for EURO 43 or salary arrears for EUR 200.
11. Manifestly ill-founded (Article 35 § 3 de la Convention)
Your application may be declared manifestly ill-founded even where all the formal admissibility criteria which
have been mentioned so far have been fulfilled. It may be that it’s very clear there is no apparition of violation,
or case already settled.
Your application may be manifestly ill-founded if you have failed to provide sufficient evidence to support the
facts and the legal arguments which you raise. For example, if you fail to explain why the Convention article
you rely on has been breached. Your application may be declared inadmissible if it is so confused that is
objectively impossible for the Court to make sense of the complaints you make.
12. Final remarks.
Only checking whether in a national system European human right have been respected. Proceedings before
the Strasbourg Court are free. You do not need to be represented by a lawyer at least at the initial stages, and
you may submit your application in one of the languages of the Member States. There is no appeal procedure
against the decision to find you application inadmissible
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PART 1: INTRODUCTION TO EUROPEAN LAW
COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
De video geeft uitleg over de ontvankelijkheidscriteria waaraan elk verzoek moet voldoen om door het Hof
verder te worden onderzocht. Het Europees Hof voor de Rechten van de Mens is een Europees gerechtshof
waar individuen, groepen, organisaties en landen een klacht kunnen indienen tegen elk van de 46 lidstaten van
de Raad van Europa.
The admissibility1 of an application
The European Court of Human Right rejects around 90% of all applications received as inadmissible. They have
lot of small and big rules. Many of the legal advisers need a better knowledge of the admissibility requirements.
1. Application form and Rule 47 of the Rules of Court
The Court has his own rules.
Rule 47: Application form: provide all the information which is request in the application form; summary of
your case, enclosed all relevant supporting documents,..
Application must not be anonymous provide your name as an applicant, necessary for identification; do you
want to be anonymous you need to put your first letters – Court will make the decision of they agreed with the
anonymous, then the name doesn't show up anywhere online.
You must state the reasons for your request.
2. Exhaustion of domestic remedies and six-month time-limit (Article 35 § 1 of the Convention)
You must submit a completed application form before the end of the mandatory six-month time-limit. If you
failed to do so your applications are admissible. If isn’t complete, does not stop the six-month time-limit. Send
your application form by post.
Six-month starts to run from the date of the final domestic decision. The fact that the last day of the six-month
time-limit ends on a Saturday, Sunday or a public holiday does not alter this time limit.
As far as exhaustion of domestic remedies is concerned, you must use all remedies in your State which provide
redress for the situation you are complaining about.
In addition, you must comply with the applicable rules and procedures of national law.
You have to mention at least one which convention provision was veiled.
3. Abuse of the right of application (Article 35 § 3 of the Convention)
Abuse of the right of application leads also to immiscibility.
Your application may be declared inadmissible for abuse of the right of application. This is the case if you
mislead the Court by submitting an application under a false name, or by falsify certain documents, by use of
abusive language.
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the fact of being considered satisfactory and acceptable in a law court
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, 4. Application already submitted to the Court or another international body (Article 35 § 2 of the
Convention);
Your application may be declared inadmissible if the Strasbourg Court has already examined an application
previously brought by you, relating to the same facts and the same complaints.
5. Victim status (Article 34 of the Convention)
It’s important to have victim status.
You can only invoke a violation if you are the victim of the violation. You may be a direct victim. For example, if
you are a victim of ill-treatment in prison which the domestic court hasn’t recognized or condemned or for
which you have not received sufficient redress. You can be an indirect victim or potential victim (risk of
deportation).
When a victim died before the court, somebody can take place in; indirect victim.
6. State liability (Ratione personae)( Article 35 § 3 of the Convention)
The violation which you complain about must have been committed by the Respondent State in question or in
some way attributable to it.
If your complaint is against EU Member States in relation to their implementation of EU law, your application
may be declared admissible.
7. Territorial jurisdiction (Ratione loci) (Article 35 § 3 of the Convention)
The violation which you complain about must have occurred within the territorial jurisdiction of the Member
State concerned or in a territory effectively controlled by it.
8. Temporal jurisdiction (Ratione temporis) (Article 35 § 3 of the Convention)
The acts or the facts complained of must have occurred after the date of entry into force of the Convention in
the respondent state of question. If something happened, case was closed – you cannot make an application.
9. Subject-matter of the case (Ratione materiae) (Article 35 § 3 of the Convention)
You must invoke a right which is protected under the Convention or its Protocols such as the right to life or the
right to an effective remedy.
The right to a fair trial
10. No significant disadvantage (Article 35 § 3 (b) of the Convention)
Your application may be declared inadmissible if you have suffered no significant disadvantage. This may be
because of the insignificant financial element to your claim. So, for example, if you complain about non-
enforcement of a judgement for EURO 43 or salary arrears for EUR 200.
11. Manifestly ill-founded (Article 35 § 3 de la Convention)
Your application may be declared manifestly ill-founded even where all the formal admissibility criteria which
have been mentioned so far have been fulfilled. It may be that it’s very clear there is no apparition of violation,
or case already settled.
Your application may be manifestly ill-founded if you have failed to provide sufficient evidence to support the
facts and the legal arguments which you raise. For example, if you fail to explain why the Convention article
you rely on has been breached. Your application may be declared inadmissible if it is so confused that is
objectively impossible for the Court to make sense of the complaints you make.
12. Final remarks.
Only checking whether in a national system European human right have been respected. Proceedings before
the Strasbourg Court are free. You do not need to be represented by a lawyer at least at the initial stages, and
you may submit your application in one of the languages of the Member States. There is no appeal procedure
against the decision to find you application inadmissible
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,FRANCE VS PARLIAMENT
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, 4
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