On 28 November, the Department for the Execution of Judgments participated in a conference organised by the Federal Office of Justice, in Bern, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Switzerland’s accession to the European Convention on Human Rights.
The conference was attended by Beat Jans, Federal Councillor, head of the Federal Department of Justice and Police, Marko Bošnjak, President of the European Court for Human Rights, Andreas Zünd, Judge elected in respect of Switzerland, Yves Donzallaz, President of the Federal Tribunal, Damien Cottier, national counsellor, Claude Wild, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the Council of Europe, representatives of the Federal Office of Justice, the Swiss Institution for Human Rights, academia and civil society, as well as human rights attorneys.
The Department presented the process of the supervision of the execution of the European Court’s judgments by the Committee of Ministers and the Department’s mandate, as well as Switzerland’s positive record in executing the Court’s judgments.
Programme of the Conference: 
