Foreign

Home page

Foreign

European Court of Human Rights opens new judicial year

28 January 2011 15:43 (UTC +04:00)

Strasbourg. Fouad Gulubeyli â€“ APA. The European Court of Human Rights released annual report 2010. According to the report, the court received 139 650 applications, but in 2009 it was 119 300. In 2010, the highest number of judgments concerned Turkey (278), Russia (216), Romania (143) and Ukraine (109). These four States accounted for half (49.8%) of all judgments. Adding Poland (107) and Italy (98), almost two-thirds (63.4%) of the judgments delivered during the year were addressed to these six States.

According to Article 50 of the Convention, the expenditure on the Court is to be borne by the Council of Europe. Under present arrangements, the Court does not have a separate budget, being financed out of the general budget of the Council of Europe which is approved each year by the Committee of Ministers. The Council of Europe is financed by the contributions of the forty-seven member States, which are fixed according to scales taking into account population and gross national product. The budget for the Court and its Registry amounted to 58.48 million euros in 2010.

On Friday, the European Court of Human Rights opened new judicial year. Top court and justice officials from 47 member countries of the Council of Europe were invited to the opening ceremony. Azerbaijan is represented by Chairman of the Supreme Court Ramiz Rizayev.