02 Aug New edition of the Rules of Court and Protocol no. 16

The European Court of Human Rights has been published a new edition of the Rules of Court. This new edition of the Rules of Court incorporates amendments made by the Plenary Court on 19 September 2016. The new edition entered into force on 1 August 2018

Besides the new edition of the Rules of Court, Protocol No. 16 to the Convention came into force on 1 August 2018. It affords the highest courts and tribunals of the States Parties the possibility of requesting the Court to give advisory opinions on questions of principle relating to the interpretation or application of the rights and freedoms defined in the Convention or the Protocols thereto.

The highest courts and tribunals designated by the 10 States that have ratified Protocol No. 16 (Albania, Armenia, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Lithuania, San Marino, Slovenia and Ukraine) can now ask the Court for an advisory opinion in the context of cases pending before them.

Ten further countries have signed the Protocol but have yet to ratify it: Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Italy, the Republic of Moldova, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Slovakia and Turkey.

A new edition of the Rules of the Court you can find here:

https://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Rules_Court_ENG.pdf

References from the official website of the European Court of Human Rights