Guides on the execution of the European Court's judgments
Monitoring of the payment of sums awarded by way of just satisfaction: an overview of the Committee of Ministers’ present practice
In many cases, the relevant information for the payment of just satisfaction already appears in the Court's judgment.
This information, however, is not always sufficient to resolve a number of - recurrent or one-off - questions as to arrangements for the payment of just satisfaction. This led to the wish that the Secretariat draw up a document recalling the practice followed in the framework of the monitoring of the payment of just satisfaction.
This document is therefore intended to present the practice followed to date on certain points by states and the Ministers' Deputies - in the light of the solutions adopted by the Court - and to highlight the points deserving further clarification.
This Secretariat memorandum presents the current practice of the Committee of Ministers in supervising payment of sums awarded by way of just satisfaction. It does not bind either the Committee of Ministers, or the member States. Because of its evolving nature (see the preliminary comments below), this document will be updated as the Committee’s practice evolves.
- Information document: CM/Inf/DH(2021)15
Monitoring of the payment of sums awarded by way of just satisfaction: an overview of the Committee of Ministers’ present practice
HELP training module on Execution of ECHR Judgments
In March 2020, the Council of Europe HELP course, Introduction to the European Convention on Human Right and the European Court of Human Rights, included an entirely new module on the execution of the European Court’s judgments.
This module explains in detail the execution of the judgments by the national authorities as well as the supervision of that execution by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.
The primary responsibility for implementation of the ECHR rand the Court's judgments rests with national authorities. To be able to implement them, domestic actors need to have knowledge on the Convention, and of the execution process concerning the Court’s judgments. This is also true with regard to all other stakeholders involved such as legal professionals, NHRIs, NGOs and international organisations. This free, online HELP course, whose length is approximately five hours, is aimed precisely at providing this necessary knowledge.
Guide for the drafting of action plans and reports for the execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
The Brussels Declaration, adopted on 27 March 2015 following the High Level Conference held in Brussels on Implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights, our shared responsibility, stressed the fondamental role of action plans and reports for the execution of judgments of the European Court as key tools in the dialogue between the Committee of Ministers and the States Parties.
To assist national authorities in the preparation of these documents, the Department for the execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights has published a guide.
- Guide for the drafting of action plans and reports for the execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
- Vodič za sastavljanje akcijskih planova i izviješća o izvršenju presuda Europskog suda za ljudska prava (Non official translation)
- Avropa İnsan Hüquqları Məhkəməsinin qərarlarının icrasına dair fəaliyyət planlarının və hesabatlarının tərtibi üzrə bələdçi (Non official translation)
