STEERING COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (CDDH)
Focus
EU accession to the ECHR
On 15 January 2020, the Ministers' Deputies approved the continuation of the ad hoc terms of reference of the Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH) to finalise as a matter of priority, in co-operation with the representatives of the European Union, in an ad hoc group 47+1 and on the basis of the work already conducted, the legal instruments setting out the modalities of accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights (ETS No. 5), including its participation in the Convention system and, in this context, to examine any related issue.
PRIORITIES IN 2020
The system of the European Convention on Human Rights
DH-SYSC-V
Enhancing the National Implementation of the System of the European Convention on Human Rights
DH-SYSC-V
Human Rights protection and development
The Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH), set up by the Committee of Ministers end 1976, conducts the intergovernmental work of the Council of Europe in the human rights field in the light, in particular, of the Council of Europe legal standards and the relevant jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. It advices and gives its legal expertise to the Committee of Ministers on all questions within its field of competence.
Chair of the CDDH
(Morten RUUD, Norway)
Secretariat: DGI-CDDH@coe.int
Chair of the DH-SYSC
(Hans-Jörg BEHRENS, Germany)
Secretariat: DGI-CDDH-Reform@coe.int
