The participants
of the meeting focused on effective work of the European Court of Human Rights,
where "a great many pending cases have massed up, which shatters the confidence
in the effective work of the court, and violates the important principle of legal
proceedings scrutiny of the cases within sensible deadlines."
S.Kivalov informed about his report on support of work of the European Court of Human Rights by means of settling systemic issues in the member states, which is being prepared by the decision of the subject PACE committee.
S.Kivalov stated, "To lessen the load of the European Court of Human Rights from the ‘cases-clones´, official translation of all decisions of the court on ‘leading cases´ should be provided on a regular basis into the languages of the countries which have troubles executing the judgments."
S.Kivalov stressed, "Courts of all levels should have a legislative motivation to check their decisions with the resolutions of the European Court of Human Rights on ‘leading cases.´ When the national courts start doing so, the number of appeals to the European Court of Human Rights will fall."
S.Kivalov also suggested creating a greater variety of tools of parliamentary control over the execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, and fixing the period of control by the Monitoring Committee and the Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee of PACE.
PACE President Mevlüt Çavusoğlu thanked S.Kivalov for the meeting. He appreciated his report, and expressed his wish to listen to the report and the recommendations at the plenary meeting of PACE in Strasbourg.
Mr Çavusoğlu considers increase of effectiveness of the European Court of Human Rights to be an element of reform of the Council of Europe. He deems necessary to lessen the load of the European Court of Human Rights caused by accession of a new organization European Union to the Strasbourg system. This may lead to a new flow of actions against European officials. Therefore, leaders of the Council of Europe discuss formation of a special inter-state group to coordinate the reform of the European Court of Human Rights. PACE President invited Serhii Kivalov to join this group.