Протокол 14 уз Европску конвенцију о људским правима и основним слободама
Protocol 14 to the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

Summary/Abstract: By ratifying the Protocol 14 to the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms by Russia in 2010 as the last member state of the Council of Europe the Protocol has finally come to force making a step forward towards reducing the European Court of Human Rights’ workload. The Protocol 14 introduces some novelties in several fields. It introduces changes concerning the competences of three judge committees, establishes single judge as a new judicial entity and defines a new criterion of admissibility. The changes are also present in friendly settlement as well as in the procedure of execution of judgements. In the paper, the author gives an overview of these novelties considering the possibility for their individual achievement, this also including their individual overall contribution to attaining the purpose for adopting the Protocol 14 as a whole and that is to reduce the Court’s workload and increase the efficiency of its work.

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