Evoluții în sistemul european de protecție a drepturilor omului
Developments with the European human rights protection system

Summary/Abstract: Europe has gradually developed a system for the protection of human rights that proved to be viable and superior to all the other regulations adopted in various parts of the world after the Second World War. The Council of Europe, currently including 46 Member States, imposed itself as a prodigious international organization that has promoted in the course of time a great number of initiatives, legal documents and, above all, managed to institute a control system guaranteeing the enjoyment of human rights, represented by the European Convention on Human Rights. The Summit of Warsaw of 16-17 May, joining the heads of States and Governments, marked the adoption of three international treaties that are characteristic of its current objectives and preoccupations, namely: the Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism, the on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime and on the Financing of Terrorism, and the Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings. The author points out, in terms of institutional development, the acceleration of the action-taking mechanisms and the simplification of the proceedings of the European Court of Human Rights in the spirit of Protocol 14, adopted in 2004, as well as the accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights, mentioned by the Constitutional Treaty itself.

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