The Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers holds its first special "human rights" meeting of 2009 from 17 to 19 March. The Committee supervises the adoption of individual measures needed to erase the consequences for applicants of violations established by the Court (including the payment of any just satisfaction awarded) and/or general measures (legislative or other changes) aimed at preventing new similar violations.
413 new cases will be examined, a number of which raises questions related to the adoption of new general measures. The others are either linked to issues which are already examined under other cases, or do not reveal any structural problem. In the remaining cases, the Committee will examine progress made, notably as far as some 300 legislative or other reforms are concerned.