Progress report | Doc. 14289 Add. 2 | 13 April 2017

Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights

Author(s): Bureau of the Assembly

1. Report of the Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights

The Committee held a meeting in Paris on 6 April 2017 with Mr Boriss Cilevičs (Latvia, SOC) in the Chair.

2. Introduction

The Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights assessed the list of the candidates to the Court in respect of Albania.

3. Conclusion of the Committee on the list of candidates submitted by Albania

The Committee interviewed all the candidates on 6 April 2017.

As not all candidates are sufficiently well qualified, the Committee recommends that the list be rejected by the Assembly and that the Government of Albania be requested to submit a new list of candidates.

Appendix 1 – List of candidates submitted by the Government of Albania

(open)

Ms Aurela ANASTAS

Mr Sokol BERBERI

Mr Aleksander MUSKAJ

Appendix 2 – Members of the Committee who participated in the meeting

(open)

Group of the European People’s Party (EPP/CD)

Mr Vladyslav GOLUB, Ukraine

Mr Sergiy VLASENKO, Ukraine, 1st Vice-Chairperson

Socialist Group (SOC)

Lord Donald ANDERSON, United Kingdom, 2nd Vice-Chairperson

Ms Eka BESELIA, Georgia

Mr Boriss CILEVIČS, Latvia, Chairperson

Mr Titus CORLĂŢEAN, Romania

Mr Pierre-Yves Le BORGN’, France

Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE)

Ms Anne BRASSEUR, Luxembourg

Ms Olena SOTNYK, Ukraine

Ex officio

Ms Elena CENTEMERO, Italy, Chairperson of the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination

Secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly

Mr Wojciech SAWICKI, Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly

Mr Günter SCHIRMER, Head of the Secretariat of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights