!!!Europäischer Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte, EGMR

European Court of Human Rights, ECHR, organ of the  Council of Europe 
established in 1959, headquarters in Strasbourg, to which each of the 
member states delegates one judge; the Austrian judge has been W. 
Fuhrmann since 1998. The European Court of Human Rights was the 
international court of second instance for complaints under the 
European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental 
Freedoms until 1998; the European Commission on Human Rights used to 
hear such complaints as the court of first instance. Since 1998 the 
ECHR has also functioned as the court of first instance. Since Austria 
is the only country to have incorporated the European Convention for 
the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms as an integral 
and immediately applicable part of its constitutional law, the number 
of cases from Austria appearing before the ECHR is higher than the 
average (1995-1998: 26 cases).


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