Progress report | Doc. 14231 Addendum 3 | 25 January 2017

Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights

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 Strasbourg on 24 January 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 Georgia.

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

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

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

(open)

Mr Giorgi BADASHVILI

Mr Aleksandre BARAMIDZE

Ms Eva GOTSIRIDZE

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

Ms Alina Ştefania GORGHIU, Romania

Mr Konstantinos TZAVARAS, Greece

Mr Sergiy VLASENKO, Ukraine, 1st Vice-Chairperson

Socialist Group (SOC)

Lord Donald ANDERSON, United Kingdom, 1st Vice-Chairperson

Ms Eka BESELIA, Georgia

Mr Boriss CILEVIČS, Latvia, Chairperson

Mr Titus CORLĂŢEAN, Romania

Mr Pierre-Yves Le BORGN’, France

Mr Evangelos VENIZELOS, Greece

Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE)

Ms Anne BRASSEUR, Luxembourg

Mr Jordi XUCLÀ, Spain

European Conservatives Group (EC)

Mr Arkadiusz MULARCZYK, Poland

Ex Officio

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

Mr Alain DESTEXHE, Belgium, Chairperson of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights

Secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly

Mr Wojciech SAWICKI, Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly

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