SUPERVISION OF THE EXECUTION OF JUDGMENTS AND DECISIONS OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS 2022

The latest annual report on the execution of judgments from the European Court of Human Rights is now online. It highlights on-going trends concerning the implementation of ECHR judgments and provides overall and country-specific data on the number of new cases, pending cases and cases closed, as well as examples of progress and significant challenges. For the first time, this year’s report also includes concise country-by-country overviews.

You can check the proportion of cases closed by state as of 31/12/22 in this interactive infographic: https://lnkd.in/e67PGKR5

Highlights in 2022:

🔎 1,459 new cases were transferred by the European Court to the Committee of Ministers, which supervises their implementation by member states.

🔎 A total of 880 cases were closed during the year, including 200 ‘leading’ cases requiring specific and often wide-ranging measures by member states to prevent similar violations happening again.

🔎 Some 6,112 cases had yet to be fully implemented by the end of 2022, including 1,299 leading cases.

🔎 2,352 (38%) of the cases pending at the end of last year concerned the Russian Federation, which was excluded from the Council of Europe on 16 March 2022 due to its aggression against Ukraine. Russia ceased being party to the European Convention on Human Rights six months later but remains obliged, under international law, to implement rulings from the European Court.

🔎 Russia’s war of aggression also affected Ukraine’s capacity to implement the Court’s judgments in 2022. Nevertheless, Ukraine made significant progress during the year, in addition to the ratification of the Council of Europe’s Istanbul Convention on violence against women, underlining its commitment to the ECHR system in extremely difficult circumstances.

🔎 Civil society organisations and national human rights institutions (NHRIs) were more involved in the process in 2022. A record number of submissions were made to the Committee of Ministers concerning the implementation of judgments, although the number of contributions from NHRIs remained relatively low.