On 10 December, the Committee of Ministers ended its supervision of the execution of the judgment Sefilyan v. Armenia. This case concerned the unlawful interference with the applicant's right to respect for his private life in connection to the secret surveillance of his telephone conversations in 2006 on the ground that the Armenian law at the material time did not contain sufficiently clear and detailed rules and did not provide adequate safeguards against abuse of the right to respect for private life and correspondence.
In 2021, the Armenian Parliament adopted a new Code of Criminal Procedure, which entered into force in 2022 and addressed the specific legislative gaps indicated by the Court in its judgment. Among other things, the Code specifies the types of offenses and the categories of persons with respect to whom a court can authorize secret surveillance measures and defined their maximum duration. The Code also introduced rules on examining, using, storing and destroying the data obtained as a result of the secret surveillance measures, in line with the existing standards from the Court’s case-law.
