European Commission of Human Rights

The European Commission of Human Rights ( ECHR ) was a Council of Europe body and should ensure compliance with and enforcement of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights. It was built in Strasbourg in 1954 and there had their headquarters

The ECHR The original system had three supervisory bodies for the protection of the rights guaranteed in the ECHR used: the European Commission of Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR ) and the Committee of Ministers, composed of the Foreign Ministers of the Member States.

From the European Commission on Human Rights, two types of procedures were carried out: the state complaint and the individual complaint. The complaint states that the Member States had to submit to compulsory, the procedure was upstream of the court proceedings before the ECHR by the Commission. The individual complaints procedure for which the Member States had to recognize first the responsibility of the Commission was, however, allowed only before the Human Rights Commission and was not able to go into an individual complaint before the ECtHR. The right to bring an action was only the Commission, the Member State of which was the injured party, the complaining Member State and the Member State which was Respondent to.

The Commission adopted an appeal to the decision they made ​​, if necessary, fix a violation of the ECHR and tried to bring about an amicable settlement of disputes. The Commission thus acted as a filter for the Court. Their decision was not legally binding, but had only recommendations. Came no amicable settlement could either the Commission ( after appropriate statement to the Committee of Ministers ) or one of the Member States concerned to call the ECHR if the respondent State had previously subject to the jurisdiction of the ECtHR. The judgment of the ECtHR was legally binding.

Due to the rapidly increasing number of complaints led to a reform of the supervisory bodies of the European Convention on Human Rights, which came in the form of the 11th Additional Protocol into force on 1 November 1998. Under this Protocol, the Commission was abolished and reorganized the Court to a constant, which is solely responsible for the complaints since then.

The reports and decisions of the European Commission of Human Rights found in published by the Euro Europe volumes, called the "Decisions and reports / European Commission of Human Rights = DECISIONS et rapports / Commission Européenne des Droits de l' Homme ".