Протокол № 14 к Конвенции о защите прав человека и основных свобод, вносящий изменения в контрольный механизм Конвенции, от 13 мая 2004 года (ратифицирован Федеральным законом № 5-ФЗ от 04.02.2010 с заявлениями, вступил в силу для Российской Федерации 1 июня 2010 года)

PROTOCOL No. 14
TO THE CONVENTION FOR THE
PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
AND FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS,
AMENDING THE CONTROL SYSTEM
OF THE CONVENTION
PROTOCOLE N° 14
A LA CONVENTION DE SAUVEGARDE
DES DROITS DE ГНОММЕ ET DES
LIBERTES FONDAMENTALES,
AMENDANT LE SYSTEME DE
CONTROLE DE LA CONVENTION
РгеатЫе
The member States of the Council of Europe, signatories to this Protocol to the Convention for the
Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, signed at Rome on 4 November 1950
(hereinafter referred to as “the Convention"),
Having regard to Resolution No. 1 and the Declaration adopted at the European Ministerial
Conference on Human Rights, held in Rome on 3 and 4 November 2000;
Having regard to the Declarations adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 8 November 2001,
7 November 2002 and 15 May 2003, at their 109th, 111th and 112th Sessions, respectively ;
Having regard to Opinion No. 251 (2004) adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council
of Europe on 28 April 2004;
Considering the urgent need to amend certain provisions of the Convention in order to maintain
and improve the efficiency of the control system for the long term, mainly in the light of
the continuing increase in the workload of the European Court of Human Rights and the
Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe;
Considering, in particular, the need to ensure that the Court can continue to play its pre-eminent
role in protecting human rights in Europe,
Have agreed as follows:
Article 1
Paragraph 2 of Article 22 of the Convention shall be deleted.
Article 2
Article 23 of the Convention shall be amended to read as follows:
“Article 23 - Terms of office and dismissal
The judges shall be elected for a period of nine years. They may not be re-elected.
The terms of office of judges shall expire when they reach the age of 70.
The judges shall hold office until replaced. They shall, however, continue to deal with such
cases as they already have under consideration.
No judge may be dismissed from office unless the other judges decide by a majority of two-
thirds that that judge has ceased to fulfil the required conditions.”
Article 3
Article 24 of the Convention shall be deleted.
Article 4
Article 25 of the Convention shall become Article 24 and Из text shall be amended to read as
follows:
“Article 24 — Registry and rapporteurs
The Court shall have a registry, the functions and organisation of which shall be laid down in
the rules of the Court.
When sitting in a single-judge formation, the Court shall be assisted by rapporteurs who shall
function under the authority of the President of the Court. They shall form part of the Court's
registry.”
Article 5
Article 26 of the Convention shall become Article 25 (“Plenary Court") and its text shall be
amended as follows:
At the end of paragraph d, the comma shall be replaced by a semi-colon and the word “and”
shall be deleted.
At the end of paragraph e, the full stop shall be replaced by a semi-colon.
A new paragraph f shall be added which shall read as follows:
“f make any request under Article 26, paragraph 2."
Article 6
Article 27 of the Convention shall become Article 26 and its text shall be amended to read as
follows:
“Article 26 - Single-judge formation, committees, Chambers and Grand Chamber
To consider cases brought before it, the Court shall sit in a single-judge formation, in committees
of three judges, in Chambers of seven judges and in a Grand Chamber of seventeen judges.
The Court's Chambers shall set up committees for a fixed period of time.
At the request of the plenary Court, the Committee of Ministers may, by a unanimous decision
and for a fixed period, reduce to five the number of judges of the Chambers.
When sitting as a single judge, a judge shall not examine any application against the High
Contracting Party in respect of which that judge has been elected.
There shall sit as an ex officio member of the Chamber and the Grand Chamber the judge elected
in respect of the High Contracting Party con...