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Françoise Tulkens
are such mechanisms for verifying, whenever necessary, the compatibility of existing laws
and administrative practice, including as expressed in regulations, orders and circulars; the
adaptation, as quickly as possible, of laws and administrative practice in order to prevent
violations of the Convention.
The perennial problem with reform of the Convention is that it has always suffered from
a time lag. This is mainly due to the complexity involved in the drafting of new Protocols
that must be ratified by all the Contracting Parties when procedural or structural changes
are involved. Protocol No. 11, for example, took more than three years to be ratified by all
Contracting Parties. The problem of time lag for a beleaguered international court is that
by the time the much-needed reform enters into force the parameters and dimensions of
the problem will have changed.