Enhancing the national capacity for effective implementation of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights

Description

Programme outcome the project contributes to: “Improved application of European legal framework by the Bulgarian judiciary”.

The project aims at ensuring the national framework for effective implementation of the European Court of Human Rights judgments and to establishing a human-rights-based approach amongst the justice institutions in Bulgaria in line with the principles of the efficiency of justice and the rule of law. The project aims at ensuring synergies between the responsible state actors in implementing the general measures prescribed by the European Court of Human Rights in its case law against Bulgaria and the relevant human rights standards.
The project shall include, inter alia, the following activities:

• Establishing of an effective implementation of the European Court’s of Human Rights judgments and suggestions of procedures and distribution of responsibilities to the appropriate state bodies;
• Designation and training of contact points within the administration of the executive, Parliament and the judiciary;
• Introduction of mandatory human rights law subject in the curriculum of the law faculties;
• Execution of European Court’s of Human Rights judgements requiring effective protection of the rights of vulnerable groups through development of an action plan;
• Ensuring accessibility of Human Rights Law materials through translation of European Court’s of Human Rights judgments and other human rights related documents and publishing of human rights bulletins summarising new Court’s case-law;
• Capacity building of national experts.