Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights
Progress report
| Doc. 15439 Add. 2
| 19 January 2022
- 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 on the Election of Judges to the European Court
of Human Rights held a meeting by videoconference on 14 January
2022, with Mr Volker Ullrich (Germany, Group of the European People's
Party) in the Chair. It assessed the list of the candidates to the
Court in respect of Poland.Note
2 Conclusions of
the committee on the list of candidates submitted by Poland
The committee recommends
to the Assembly to reject the list as not all candidates fulfil
the requirements of Article 21 of the European Convention on Human
Rights for election as a judge at the European Court of Human Rights
and to request the Government of Poland to submit a new list of
candidates.
Appendix 1 – List of candidates submitted
by the Government of Poland
- Ms Elzbieta KARSKA
- Mr Aleksander STĘPKOWSKI
- Ms Agnieszka SZKLANNA
Appendix 2 – Members of the committee who
participated in the meetingNote
Group of the European People's Party (EPP/CD)
- Mr Jason AZZOPARDI,
Malta
- Mr Corneliu Mugurel COZMANCIUC, Romania
- Ms Inese LĨBIŅA-EGNERE, Latvia
- Mr Aleksander POCIEJ, Poland
- Mr Evripidis STYLIANIDIS, Greece
- Mr Volker ULLRICH, Chair, Germany
- Mr Vladimir VARDANYAN, Armenia
- Mr Sergiy VLASENKO, Ukraine
- Ms Andrea EDER-GITSCHTHALER, Austria
Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group
(SOC)
- Ms Margreet De BOER,
Netherlands
- Mr Titus CORLĂŢEAN, 2nd Vice-Chairperson, Romania
- Mr Constantinos EFSTATHIOU, Cyprus
- Mr Andrej SZEJNA, Poland
- Mr Franck SCHWABE, Germany
- Mr Givi MIKANADZE, Georgia
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for
Europe (ALDE)
- Ms Stephanie KRISPER,
Austria
- Mr Fabien GOUTTEFARDE, France
European Conservatives Group & Democratic
Alliance (EC/DA)
- Mr Serhii KALCHENKO,
Ukraine
- Mr Morten MESSERSCHMIDT, Denmark
- Lord David BLENCATHRA, United Kingdom
- Mr Arkadiusz MULARCZYK, Poland
Group of the Unified European Left (UEL)
- Mr Georgios KATROUGALOS,
Greece
- Mr Tiny KOX, Netherlands
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 Mark NEVILLE, Director of Committees – Democracy and
Rule of law
- Mr Günter SCHIRMER, Head of the Secretariat
