The number of applications against Moldova submitted to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) last year fell by 18%, but this is not due to the justice sector reform, but rather to the modification of the conditions for accepting applications and to the fact that the ECHR earlier rejected a high number of complaints and the lawyers became more prudent in filing them. Such conclusions were formulated by the director of the Legal Resources Center of Moldova Vlad Gribincea when presenting the second report on the implementation of the ECHR decisions by Moldova in 2013-2014, IPN reports.
Vlad Gribincea said that over 1,000 applications against Moldova are submitted annually to the ECHR. In 2014, Moldova ranked fourth among the 47 Council of Europe member states by the number of such applications. After the first report, many things changed, some were delayed, while others stagnated. “The investigation of the cases of torture remained insufficient. However, the penalties for use of torture became severer,” he stated.
The main recommendation of the report authors is to institute a surveillance mechanism to monitor the developments after the ECHR decision is passed.
Program director at the Legal Resources Center of Moldova Nadejda Hriptievschi, one of the authors of the report, said the students of the faculties of law of Moldova insufficiently study the case law of the ECHR, especially in bachelor education. Thus, it is recommended staging more extensive courses on the ECHR.
Since 1998 until 2014, the ECHR registered 10,800 applications against Moldova. Almost 90% of these were already examined. About 1,000 applications based on which Moldova could be convicted are pending.
