Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights
Progress report
| Doc. 13945 Addendum II
| 15 January 2016
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 12 January 2016,
with Ms Cristina De Pietro (Italy, ALDE), 1st Vice-Chairperson,
then Mr Boriss Cilevičs (Latvia, SOC), in the Chair.
2 Introduction
In accordance with previous practice and as specified in Parliamentary
Assembly Resolution 2002
(2014),Note the Committee on the
Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights assessed
the qualifications of the candidates to the Court in respect of
Cyprus.Note The Committee interviewed all the
candidates on 12 January 2016. A list of members of the Committee
who participated in the meeting can be found in Appendix 2.
3 Conclusion of
the Committee on the list of candidates submitted by Cyprus, Contracting
State to the European Convention on Human Rights
The Committee recommends, by a large majority, the candidature
of Mr Georgios A. Serghides as
the most qualified candidate.
Appendix 1 – List of candidates submitted
by the Government of CyprusNote
Ms
Elena EFREM
Mr Costakis PARASKEVA
Mr Georgios A. SERGHIDES
Appendix 2 – Members of the Committee who
participated in the meeting
Socialist Group
(SOC):
Ms Eka BESELIA,
Georgia
Mr Boriss CILEVIČS, Latvia
Mr Pierre-Yves LE BORGN’, France
Mr Luc RECORDON, Switzerland
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats
for Europe (ALDE):
Ms
Cristina DE PIETRO, Italy
Ms Olena SOTNYK, Ukraine
Group of the Unified European
Left (UEL):
Mr Matjaž
HANŽEK, Slovenia
Ex Officio:
Ms Gülsün BİLGEHAN, Turkey,
Chairperson of the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination
Secretariat of the Parliamentary
Assembly:
Mr Wojciech
SAWICKI, Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly
Mr Andrew DRZEMCZEWSKI, Head of the Legal Affairs and
Human Rights Department
