Protocol 15 amending the European Convention on Human Rights entered into force on 1 August. The RA representation in the ECHR reported.

Accordingly, from 1 February, 2022, following the latest domestic decision, the current six-month period for filing an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights will be reduced to four months.

This Protocol amended the preamble to the Convention, which now includes the principle of subsidiarity and the margin of appreciation doctrine.

The following changes were also made in the protocol:

• The criterion of “significant disadvantage” from the criteria of admissibility of the complaint, the second condition of which is that the case, which has not been properly examined by the domestic courts, cannot be rejected, has been eliminated.
• The parties to the case can no longer object to the transfer of the case by the Chamber to the Grand Chamber;
• Candidates for the post of ECHR judge must be under 65 years of age when submitting the list of three candidates to be sent to the Parliamentary Assembly;
• Protocol 15 adopted in 2013 has been ratified by all member states of the Council of Europe.