On 10 November 2010, the Committee of Ministers adopted Resolution CM/Res(2010)26 on the establishment of an Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights (“the Advisory Panel”).
 

Its current members are:

  • Mr Luis Lopez Guerra - Chair (Spain)
  • Ms Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska - Vice Chair (North Macedonia)
  • Mr Guido Raimondi (Italy)
  • Ms Saale Laos (Estonia)
  • Mr Paul Lemmens (Belgium)
  • Ms Irena Pelikánová (Czech Republic)
  • Mr Henrik Bull (Norway)

Secretariat:

  • Ms Ana Gomez (Secretary to the Advisory Panel)
  • Ms Deniz Eroğlu (Assistant to the Advisory Panel)
  • Mr Antoine Karle (Assistant to the Advisory Panel)

 

  

The Panel’s mandate is to advise the High Contracting Parties whether candidates for election as judge to the European Court of Human Rights meet the criteria stipulated in Article 21(1) of the Convention which reads as follows:

“The judges shall be of high moral character and must either possess the qualifications required for appointment to high judicial office or be jurisconsults of recognised competence.”         

The creation of the Advisory Panel was part of the implementation of the Interlaken Declaration of 19 February 2010 which called on the High Contracting Parties to ensure “full satisfaction of the Convention’s criteria for office as a judge of the Court, including knowledge of public international law and of the national legal systems as well as proficiency in at least one official language.”

According to Article 22 of the European Convention on Human Rights the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has exclusive competence for electing the Court’s judges, but the quality of those judges depends in the first place on the quality of the candidates that are nominated by the States Parties. If a list is not composed of qualified candidates, the most that the Assembly can do is to reject it.

Article 22 of the Convention states that “The judges shall be elected by the Parliamentary Assembly with respect to each High Contracting Party by a majority of votes cast from a list of three candidates nominated by the High Contracting Party.”

In order to obtain the Panel’s opinion, the Governments shall provide the Panel with the names and curricula vitae of the three candidates selected at national level prior to their submission to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. After having given its confidential opinion to the Government concerned, the Panel also informs the Parliamentary Assembly in a confidential manner of its opinion.

Activity report of the advisory panel 2010-2013

2nd Activity report of the advisory panel 2014-2015

 3rd Activity Report of the advisory panel 2016-June 2017

4th Activity Report of the advisory panel July 2017-May 2019 

5th Activity Report of the advisory panel 7 May 2019 to 1 July 2022


Decisions of the Committee of Ministers

Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights – Appointment of members CM/Del/Dec(2023)1469/1.7 14 June 2023

 

Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights – Appointment of a member CM/Del/Dec(2021)1416/1.7 3 November 2021

 

Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights – Appointment of a member CM/Del/Dec(2021)1409/1.8 July 2021

 

Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights – Appointment of members CM/Del/Dec(2020)1380bis/1.7 8 July 2020

 

Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights – Appointment of a member CM/Del/Dec(2019)1350/1.5 / 19 June 2019

 

Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights – Re-appointment of a member CM/Del/Dec(2019)1337/1.6 / 13 February 2019


Securing the long-term effectiveness of the system of the European Convention on Human Rights – Follow-up decisions to the 128th Session of the Committee of Ministers CM/Del/Dec(2019)1333/4.1 / 9 January 2019


Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights – Re-appointment of a member CM/Del/Dec(2018)1327/1.7 / 17 October 2018


Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights – Appointment of four members CM/Del/Dec(2017)1291/1.10


Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights – Appointment of a member CM/Del/Dec(2016)1252/1.5/ 30 March 2016


Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights – Appointment of a member CM/Del/Dec(2015)1237/1.7/ 07 October 2015


Guidelines of the Committee of Ministers on the selection of candidates for the post of judge at the European Court of Human Rights adopted on 28 March 2012 – Amendment CM/Del/Dec(2014)1213/1.5/appendix5E / 28 November 2014


Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights – Evaluation CM/Del/Dec(2014)1213/1.5E / 28 November 2014


Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights – Appointment of members CM/Del/Dec(2014)1202/1.7E / 13 June 2014


Follow-up to the Brighton Declaration - b. Review of the functioning of the Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights CM/Del/Dec(2014)1190/4.3bE / 07 February 2014


Brighton Declaration - Follow-up - a. Follow-up to paragraph 9g of the Brighton Declaration - b. Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights: proposed extension of the mandate of the current Panel which ends on 31 December 2013 CM/Del/Dec(2013)1185/4.1E / 22 November 2013


Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights – Appointment of a member CM/Del/Dec(2013)1170/1.8E / 10 May 2013


Establishment of the Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights - Implementation CM/Del/Dec(2010)1101/1.7E / 10 December 2010


Establishment of an Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights – Implementation CM/Del/Dec(2010)1098/1.7E / 19 November 2010


Stocktaking of the outgoing Chairmanship and follow-up to the Interlaken Conference - b. Draft Resolution CM/Res(2010).. on the establishment of an Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights CM/Del/Dec(2010)1097bis/1.2bE / 17 November 2010