The Role of the European Union in Protecting Human Rights

The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms has created three bodies to protect the rights it has provided for and to monitor the compliance of States with the obligations it has imposed on them: the European Commission of Human Rights the European Court of Human Rights and the Committee of Ministers. The European System for the Protection of Human Rights was radically amended by Protocol XI with the aim of reorganizing monitoring mechanisms and improving the effectiveness of the protection of human rights. The primary objective of the adoption of Protocol XIV is to improve the effectiveness of the human rights protection mechanism in response to the quantitative change in individual applications and to the qualitative change in their subjects by adding a new standard for the admissibility of individual applications introducing the single judge system and expanding the terms of reference of the Tripartite Committee of Judges. The research attempts to assess and analyze the developments of the European System for the Protection of Human Rights by examining the mechanism and procedures of the European Court of Human Rights in relation to its jurisdiction to adjudicate individual applications. The experience of the European Union represents a unique one in the current international circumstances both in the stage it went through and the organs associated with it and its activity within the framework of the European continent.