At its meeting on July 3, the Committee of Ministers terminated its supervision of the execution of the Mortier v. Belgium judgment.
This case concerned the lack of independence of the Belgian Federal Commission for the Control and Evaluation of Euthanasia (procedural violation of Article 2 of the Convention), having controlled in June 2012 the euthanasia of the applicant's mother, carried out in April 2012 in a public hospital by a professor who subsequently co-chaired the Commission.
A law passed on 28 March 2024 remedies the problem of the independence of the Federal Commission for Supervision and Evaluation, identified by the European Court, by removing the anonymity of the doctor who performed the euthanasia and of the persons who were consulted. From now on, these persons will no longer be able to sit on the Commission when it is examining acts in which they took part.
Final Resolution CM/ResDH(2025)146
