18/02/2010 President
“The supervisory mechanism is subsidiary in nature. Primary responsibility for the protection of human rights should be shifted back to national legal systems and practices,” PACE President Mevlüt Cavusoglu stressed at the opening of the Interlaken Conference on the future of the European Court of Human Rights.
He also stressed that a well-functioning national human rights protection machinery could make a separate filtering body within the Court superfluous.
He also warned that if the highest judicial organs in member states had to recognise the judgments of the as authorative, the Parliamentary Assembly of the organisation had to be in a position to elect top quality judges from lists of the highest level.
The President also denounced the insufficient funding of the Court.
He stressed that its financing had to be reviewed as a matter of urgency, but not at the expense of the rest of the Organisation. He finally expressed hope for a rapid EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights, guaranteeing a coherent, Europe-wide system of human rights protection.