Working document in view of the 3 DH-SYSC-I meeting

2 DH-SYSC-I (2017)010
INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................... 3
I. THE SELECTION PROCEDURE ...................................................................... 9
A. National selection procedures ........................................................................... 9
B. The selection criteria ........................................................................................ 12
C. The role of the Advisory Panel in the selection and election process .......... 19
D. The interpretation of the criteria .................................................................... 26
II. THE ELECTION PROCESS ............................................................................. 28
A. The procedure ................................................................................................... 28
B. Challenges ......................................................................................................... 30
C. Responses within the framework of the existing structures ......................... 31
D. Alternative models of appointment outside the existing structures ............ 35
III.
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS
AT THE COURT ............................................................................................... 37
A. Challenges ......................................................................................................... 37
B. The conditions of employment: possible responses within the framework of
the existing structures .............................................................................................. 38
C. Working conditions at the Court: possible responses within the framework
of the existing structures ......................................................................................... 40
IV. AD HOC JUDGES ............................................................................................ 41
A. Challenges ......................................................................................................... 41
B. Responses within the framework of the existing structures ......................... 42
Appendix I ................................................................................................................. 44
Selection of candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human
Rights: procedure and selection criteria in member States .........................................
Appendix II ............................................................................................................... 78
Excerpt from the 2 nd Activity Report of the Advisory Panel of experts on candidates .
for election as judge to the European Court of Human Rights (February 2016) ........
Appendix III .............................................................................................................. 83
Tables on the recognition of service as a judge of the Court .......................................