Progress report | Doc. 15263 Add. 2 | 14 April 2021

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 hybrid meeting in Paris on 9 April 2021 with Mr Volker Ullrich (Germany, EPP/CD), in the Chair.

2. Introduction

The Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights assessed the lists of the candidates to the Court in respect of Belgium and Poland.

3. Conclusions of the Committee on the lists of candidates submitted by Belgium and Poland

Belgium

The Committee interviewed all the candidates on 9 April 2021.

The Committee recommends to the Assembly, by a majority, Mr Frédéric Krenc, as the most qualified candidate, over Ms Maïté De Rue.

Poland

The Committee recommends to the Assembly to reject the list in view of the national selection procedure not being in line with the standards required by the Assembly and the Committee of Ministers and to request the Government of Poland to submit a new list of candidates.

Appendix 1 – Lists of candidates submitted by the Governments of Belgium and Poland

(open)

Belgium

Ms Maïté DE RUE

Mr Frédéric KRENC

Ms Sylvie SAROLEA

Poland

Ms Elzbieta KARSKA

Mr Aleksander STĘPKOWSKI

Ms Agnieszka SZKLANNA

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

(open)

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

Mr Jason AZZOPARDI, Malta

Ms Inese LĪBIŅA-EGNERE, Latvia

Mr Aleksander POCIEJ, Poland

Mr Evripidis STYLIANIDIS, Greece

Mr Attila TILKI, Hungary

Mr Volker ULLRICH, Chairperson, Germany

Mr Vladimir VARDANYAN, Armenia

Mr Sergiy VLASENKO, Ukraine

Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group (SOC)

Ms Margreet De BOER, Netherlands

Ms Klotilda BUSHKA, Albania

Mr Titus CORLĂŢEAN, 2nd Vice-Chairperson, Romania

Mr Constantinos EFSTATHIOU, Cyprus

Mr Andrej SZEJNA, Poland

Mr André VALLINI, France

Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE)

Ms Stephanie KRISPER, Austria

Mr Edmon MARUKYAN, Armenia

Ms Emilie Enger MEHL, Norway

European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance (EC/DA)

Mr Serhii KALCHENKO, Ukraine

Mr Morten MESSERSCHMIDT, Denmark

Mr Arkadiusz MULARCZYK, Poland

Group of the Unified European Left (UEL)

Mr Georgios KATROUGKALOS, Greece

Ex Officio

Ms Petra BAYR, Chairperson of the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination, Austria

Mr Boriss CILEVIČS, Chairperson of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, Latvia

Secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly

Ms Despina CHATZIVASSILIOU-TSOVILIS, Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly

Mr Günter SCHIRMER, Head of the Secretariat