Ensuring the viability of the Strasbourg Court: structural deficiencies in States Parties

Amendment No. 3 | Doc. 13087 | 21 January 2013

Signatories:

Mr Mevlüt ÇAVUŞOĞLU, Turkey, EDG ; Mr Boriss CILEVIČS, Latvia, SOC ; Mr Sabir HAJIYEV, Azerbaijan, SOC ; Mr Ivan POPESCU, Ukraine, SOC ; Mr Rovshan RZAYEV, Azerbaijan, EPP/CD ; Mr Samad SEYIDOV, Azerbaijan, EDG ; Mr Egidijus VAREIKIS, Lithuania, EPP/CD ; Ms Svetlana ZHUROVA, Russian Federation, EDG ; Mr Emanuelis ZINGERIS, Lithuania, EPP/CD

Origin

2013 - First part-session

In the draft resolution, after paragraph 7.5, insert the following paragraph:

"strengthen legal guarantees of independence of the Court's judges and secure their immunity by:

- providing them and their families with diplomatic immunity ad vitam, including immunities, exemptions and facilities accorded to diplomatic envoys and to national judges of the highest level;

- securing that, after the replacement of a judge on the Court, the former judge be entitled to a similar position, if he or she has not yet reached retirement age;

- including a judge's term of office at the Court onto his or her national employment record in judicial or other occupation;

- securing that, when the former judge reaches retirement age, he or she is entitled to a pension equivalent to that of judges of the highest courts or that of state agents of a similar position."