THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTSIN FACTS& FIGURES

2012

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Court’s statistics for 2012

Pending allocated cases

Approximately 128,100 applications were pending before a judicial formation on 31 December 2012. More than half of these applications had been lodged against one of 4 countries: Russia, Turkey, Italy and Ukraine.

on 31 December 2012

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Poland Republic ofMoldova

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Bulgaria Romania Serbia Ukraine Italy Turkey Russia Other States

2.40% 2.50% 2.60% 3.00%

6.80%

7.80% 8.20%

11.10%

13.20%

22.30%

20.10%

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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 2012

Violation judgments by State in 2012

In 2012, near the half of the judgments delivered by the Court concerned 6 of the Council of Europe’s 47 member States: Russia (134), Turkey (123), Romania (79), Poland (74), Ukraine (71) and Bulgaria (64). Of the total number of judgments it has delivered in 2012, in over 82% of cases the Court has found at least one violation of the Convention by the respondent State.

Since it was established in 1959, near the half of the judgments delivered by the Court concerned 5 member States: Turkey (2,870), Italy (2,229), Russia (1,346), Poland (1,019) and Romania (938).

Bulgaria Ukraine Poland Romania Turkey Russia Other States

5.85% 6.49% 6.77% 7.22%

11.25% 12.25%

50.17%

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

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

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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 2012, the Court delivered 1,093 judgments concerning 1,678 applications. A total of 87,879 applications were decided in 2012.

Subject-matter of the Court’s violation judgments in 2012

Near 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, 50% of violations found by the Court concern Article 6 or Article 3 (Prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment).

Lastly, more than 24% of 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).

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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

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177

695

888

844

703

718

1,105

1,560

1,503

1,543

1,625

1,499

1,157

1,093 Right to life (Art. 2)

5.06 % Protection of property

(P1-1) 8.05 %

Right to an effective remedy (Art. 13) 8.25 %

Other violations 13.25 %

Right to liberty and security (Art. 5) 15.26%

Prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading

treatment (Art. 3) 18.96%

Right to a fair trial (Art. 6) 31.17%

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Throughput of applications in 2012 Simplified case-processing flow chart of the Court

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applications decided

2012 2012 2012 2012Albania 111 58 10 68Andorra 6 15 2 17Armenia 238 229 16 245Austria 376 549 23 572Azerbaijan 342 694 37 731Belgium 268 468 6 474Bosnia and Herzegovina 430 361 12 373Bulgaria 1 276 1 425 72 1 497Croatia 1 912 2 392 22 2 414Cyprus 79 55 0 55Czech Republic 547 773 30 803Denmark 103 201 1 202Estonia 301 269 8 277Finland 317 615 5 620France 1 347 2 518 32 2 550Georgia 367 521 12 533Germany 1 494 2 468 23 2 491Greece 722 861 58 919Hungary 738 840 27 867Iceland 10 10 2 12Ireland 55 63 2 65Italy 3 253 2 693 122 2 815Latvia 286 296 14 310Liechtenstein 16 15 0 15Lithuania 373 705 12 717Luxembourg 31 30 2 32Malta 26 20 3 23Monaco 5 7 0 7Montenegro 180 181 15 196Netherlands 675 859 7 866Norway 101 165 4 169Poland 4 077 7 283 74 7 357Portugal 217 239 25 264Republic of Moldova 938 1 905 32 1 937Romania 6 790 10 066 155 10 221Russia 10 755 22 142 216 22 358San Marino 1 1 1 2Serbia 4 900 1 599 39 1 638Slovakia 531 1 079 23 1 102Slovenia 422 1 517 22 1 539Spain 694 895 11 906Sweden 545 894 15 909Switzerland 325 341 8 349"The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" 354 618 8 626

Turkey 9 098 7 914 134 8 048Ukraine 7 796 7 305 301 7 606United Kingdom 1 734 2 047 35 2 082Total of applications 65 162 86 201 1 678 87 879

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Violations by Article and by State

Violations by Article and by State

2012

Total number of judgm

ents

Judgments finding at least one violation

Judgments finding no violation

Friendly settlements/Striking-out judgm

ents

Other judgments*

Right to life – deprivation of life

Lack of effective investigation

Prohibition of torture

Inhuman or degrading treatm

ent

Lack of effective investigation

Prohibition of slavery/forced labour

Right to liberty and securityRight to a fair trial

Length of proceedingsNon-enforcem

ent

No punishment without law

Right to respect for private and family life

Freedom of thought, conscience and religion

Freedom of expression

Freedom of assem

bly and association

Right to marry

Right to an effective remedy

Prohibition of discrimination

Protection of propertyRight to education

Right to free elections

Right not to be tried or punished twice

Other Articles of the Convention

Total Total Total Total Total 2 2 3 3 3 4 5 6 6 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 P1-1 P1-2 P1-3 P1-4Albania 7 5 2 1 2 1 1 1 1Andorra 2 1 1 1Armenia 16 16 1 1 1 16 3 1 1 2 1 1 1 3 2Austria 23 10 13 3 3 2 1 2Azerbaijan 17 17 2 2 7 4 1 1 6 6 1Belgium 6 6 1 4 1 1 1 1Bosnia Herzegovina 7 6 1 1 2 2 1 4Bulgaria 64 58 3 3 2 5 1 5 6 12 12 14 1 15 2 21 1 8 1 5Croatia 23 18 5 2 2 1 4 4 5 4 1 3 1CyprusCzech Republic 15 10 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 6 1 1Denmark 1 1Estonia 4 2 2 1 2Finland 5 2 3 1 1 1France 29 19 8 2 1 3 1 7 6 1 3 2Georgia 12 8 2 2 4 3 4 1 1 1 1Germany 23 11 8 1 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1Greece 56 52 3 1 1 11 1 12 1 34 25 1 2 1Hungary 26 24 1 1 1 3 2 4 1 9 2 2 3Iceland 2 2 2Ireland 2 2 2Italy 63 36 2 2 23 3 2 1 4 16 7 1 4 12 1 2Latvia 14 10 4 4 4 1 2 1 1 1LiechtensteinLithuania 12 7 5 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1Luxembourg 2 1 1 1Malta 3 1 1 1 1 1

2012Total num

ber of judgments

Judgments finding at least one violation

Judgments finding no violation

Friendly settlements/Striking-out judgm

ents

Other judgments*

Right to life – deprivation of life

Lack of effective investigation

Prohibition of torture

Inhuman or degrading treatm

ent

Lack of effective investigation

Prohibition of slavery/forced labour

Right to liberty and securityRight to a fair trial

Length of proceedingsNon-enforcem

ent

No punishment w

ithout law

Right to respect for private and family life

Freedom of thought, conscience and religion

Freedom of expression

Freedom of assem

bly and association

Right to marry

Right to an effective remedy

Prohibition of discrimination

Protection of propertyRight to education

Right to free elections

Right not to be tried or punished twice

Other Articles of the Convention

Total Total Total Total Total 2 2 3 3 3 4 5 6 6 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 P1-1 P1-2 P1-3 P1-4MonacoMontenegro 6 5 1 1 3 2 2Netherlands 7 5 2 1 3 2 2 1Norway 3 2 1 1 1Poland 74 56 16 2 7 13 9 6 8 4 23 1Portugal 23 22 1 5 16 3 1 5 1Republic of Moldova 27 24 1 2 1 1 10 5 5 7 1 1 2 2 1 4Romania 79 70 6 1 2 1 3 25 12 10 17 9 1 5 3 1 3 7 1Russia 134 122 12 15 17 7 48 25 64 36 8 7 6 17 3 16 1 5San Marino 1 1 1Serbia 12 10 2 1 1 1 4 1 1 1 5Slovakia 23 21 2 1 2 2 2 5 11 2 3 1Slovenia 22 20 2 2 1 2 12 1 2 14 1 1Spain 10 8 2 1 2 1 3 1 1 1 2Sweden 15 4 8 2 1 1 1 1 1Switzerland 8 3 5 2 1 1 1"The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" 7 6 1 1 2 1 2 3 3 2 1 1 2

Turkey 123 117 3 3 11 7 18 17 37 26 38 20 3 3 8 4 11 1 23 1Ukraine 71 69 2 1 4 5 12 10 23 26 27 3 9 8 1 4 5United Kingdom 24 10 13 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1Sub-total 899 144 9 51 36 42 24 169 99 2 235 211 227 42 5 87 6 33 13 1 127 20 124 1 9 27Total 1,093**

* Other judgments: just satisfaction, revision judgments, preliminary objections and lack of jurisdiction.** Some judgments are against more than one State.

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