To date, the European Union (EU) is not yet a Party to the European Convention on
Human Rights (the Convention). Accordingly, its acts cannot as such be the subject of
applications to the European Court of Human Rights (the Court).
Nevertheless, issues relating to Community law have been raised regularly with the
Court and the former European Commission of Human Rights.
In the Factsheet the following Principles can be found:
Principles established by the European Commission of Human Rights
- Responsibility of a State which signs up to two treaties successively
- Inadmissibility of applications against the European Communities
- Possibility of bringing a case against a State for national measures giving effect to Community law
- Presumption that the European Communities guarantee protection of fundamental rights at a level equivalent to that provided by the Convention
Principles established by the European Court of Human Rights
- Possibility of bringing a case against a State for national measures giving effect to Community law
- Responsibility of a State for the consequences of a treaty which it had been involved in adopting
- Equivalent protection
- Dublin regulation
- Admissibility criteria (Article 35 of the Convention)
- Preliminary ruling
- European arrest warrant
- Confidentiality of lawyer-client relations
- Freedom of expression and electronic commerce
- Environment
