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Non-enforcement of domestic court decisions in Council of Europe member states

20 June 2007 14:41 (UTC +04:00)

The Council of Europe is organising on 21 and 22 June in Strasbourg a Round Table entitled â€œNon-enforcement of domestic court decisions in member states: general measures to comply with European Court judgmentsâ€, COE office in Azerbaijan told the APA.
In recent years, the non-enforcement of domestic courtsâ€™ decisions is becoming, by virtue of its scale, the second problem, after the problem of the length of proceedings, that has been revealed by the Court in its judgments.
The aim of the Round Table is to share member-statesâ€™ experience in the resolution of structural problems revealed in the area of enforcement of domestic court decisions, in the light of the requirements set up by the European Convention of Human Rights. The discussions will be based on a comparative analysis of the reforms adopted or under way in some countries, as reflected in the Committee of Ministersâ€™ resolutions and memoranda issued by the Council of Europeâ€™s Secretariat.
The Round Table will start with speeches by Jean-Paul Costa, President of the European Court of Human Rights, Ambassador TorbjÃ¸rn FrÃ¸ysnes, Permanent Representative of Norway to the Council of Europe and Philippe Boillat, Director General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs.
High level representatives of the authorities concerned by this issue (in particular, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation and Ukraine) will take part in the debates, which are closed to the press.
The Round Table is organised in the context of the new programme for assistance to the Committee of Ministers in the supervision of the execution of the European Court of Human Rights judgments. /APA/