THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

IN FACTS& FIGURES

2013

Facts & Figures - 2013

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The Court’s statistics for 2013

Pending allocated cases

Approximately 99,900 applications were pending before a judicial formation on 31 December 2013. More than half of these applications had been lodged against one of 4 countries: Russian Federation, Italy, Ukraine and Serbia.

on 31 December 2013

Slovenia Bulgaria Georgia UnitedKingdom

Romania Turkey Serbia Ukraine Italy RussianFederation

OtherStates

1.80% 2.50% 2.50% 2.50%

6.20%

11.00% 11.30%

13.30% 14.40%

16.80% 17.90%

This document has been prepared by the Public Relations Unit of the Court, and does not bind the Court. It is intended to provide basic general information about the way the Court works.

For more detailed information, please refer to documents issued by the Registry available on the Court’s website www.echr.coe.int

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Applications allocated to a judicial formation

Applications which are allocated to a judicial formation are those for which the Court has received a correctly completed form, accompanied by copies of relevant documents. These applications will be examined by a single judge, a Committee or by a Chamber of the Court. These figures do not include applications which are at the pre-judicial stage (incomplete case file).

on 31 December 2013

Year 1999

Year 2000

Year 2001

Year 2002

Year 2003

Year 2004

Year 2005

Year 2006

Year 2007

Year 2008

Year 2009

Year 2010

Year 2011

Year 2012

Year 2013

8,400

10,500

13,800

28,200

27,200

32,500

35,400

39,350

41,700

49,850

57,100

61,300

64,400

65,200 65,900

Violation judgments by State in 2013

In 2013, almost half of the judgments delivered by the Court concerned 5 of the Council of Europe’s 47 member States: Russian Federation (129), Turkey (124), Romania (88), Ukraine (69) and Hungary (41). Of the total number of judgments delivered in 2013, the Court has found at least one violation of the Convention by the respondent State in 87% of the cases.

Since it was established in 1959, almost half of the judgments delivered by the Court concerned 5 member States: Turkey (2,994), Italy (2,268), Russian Federation (1,475), Poland (1,042) and Romania (1,026).

Italy Hungary Ukraine Romania Turkey RussianFederation

Other States

4.25% 4.58% 7.53%

9.60%

13.53% 14.08%

46.43%

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Subject-matter of the Court’s violation judgments in 2013

Nearly a third of the judgments in which the Court found a violation included a violation of Article 6 (Right to a fair trial), whether on account of the fairness or the length of the proceedings. Furthermore, about 50% of the violations found by the Court concern either Article 6 or Article 3 (Prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment).

Lastly, more than 24% of the violations found by the Court concern the right to life or the prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment (Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention).

Right to life (Art. 2) 6.12%

Protection of property

(P1-1) 7.80%

Right to an effective remedy (Art. 13)

8.82%

Other violations 12.79%

Right to liberty and security (Art. 5)

15.97%

Prohibition of torture and inhuman or

degrading treatment (Art. 3) 18.45%

Right to a fair trial (Art. 6) 30.05%

Judgments delivered by the Court

In recent years the Court has concentrated on examining complex cases and has decided to join certain applications which raise similar legal questions so that it can consider them jointly. Thus, although the number of judgments delivered each year is not increasing as rapidly as in the past, the Court has examined more applications.

In 2013, the Court delivered 916 judgments concerning 3,659 applications. A total of 93,397 applications were decided in 2013.

Years 1959-1998

Year 1999

Year 2000

Year 2001

Year 2002

Year 2003

Year 2004

Year 2005

Year 2006

Year 2007

Year 2008

Year 2009

Year 2010

Year 2011

Year 2012

Year 2013

837 177

695

888

844 703 718

1,105

1,560 1,503

1,543

1,625 1,499

1,157

1,093

916

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Throughput of applications in 2013

Applications

allocated to a

judicial information

Applications

declared

inadmissible or

struck out

Applications in

which judgment was

delivered

Total number of

applications decided

2013 2013 2013 2013

Albania 106 48 9 57Andorra 2 6 0 6Armenia 196 195 2 197Austria 437 611 22 633Azerbaijan 325 284 13 297Belgium 270 253 9 262Bosnia and Herzegovina 871 1,019 26 1,045Bulgaria 1,209 2,552 26 2,578Croatia 1,842 2,047 24 2,071Cyprus 144 163 1 164Czech Republic 481 827 11 838Denmark 85 88 0 88Estonia 237 533 6 539Finland 315 300 3 303France 1,538 2,391 36 2,427Georgia 157 577 2 579Germany 1,528 3,033 7 3,040Greece 726 472 43 515Hungary 990 1,048 42 1,090Iceland 9 11 0 11Ireland 61 63 2 65Italy 3,184 2,872 76 2,948Latvia 322 307 10 317Liechtenstein 7 14 1 15Lithuania 428 416 12 428Luxembourg 38 31 2 33Malta 50 12 10 22Republic of Moldova 1,356 3,143 19 3,162Monaco 10 10 3 13Montenegro 293 342 3 345Netherlands 778 1,389 1 1,390Norway 148 115 4 119Poland 3,990 5,388 23 5,411Portugal 267 236 13 249Romania 5,422 7,697 166 7,863Russian Federation 12,330 23,845 257 24,102San Marino 4 1 0 1Serbia 5,061 3,685 193 3,878Slovak Republic 464 684 16 700Slovenia 495 896 25 921Spain 784 1,029 13 1,042Sweden 362 365 16 381Switzerland 445 1,197 13 1,210"The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia"

539 850 9 859

Turkey 3,521 9,011 190 9,201Ukraine 13,152 8,049 2,281 10,330United Kingdom 912 1,633 19 1,652

TOTAL 65,891 89,738 3,659 93,397

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Violations by Article and by State1

2013

Total

number

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213

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Violations by Article and by State1

2013

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23

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84

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11

31

22

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21

11

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105

14

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23

103

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11

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3 628

71

27

45

43

21

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22

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63

32

11

Gre

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3 832

33

87

212

11

93

2H

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ry42

402

310

125

32

32

31

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and

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land

21

11

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ly3 9

342

32

716

41

42

11

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62

11

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