Territorial scope of European Convention on Human Rights
Appearance
This table illustrates the extent to which the substantive provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights and its Protocols are ratified (and therefore in force) for territories under the control of the members of the Council of Europe.
Member States and Sovereign Territories |
Extent of ECHR |
Right of petition to ECtHR | Protocol 1 (Rights to property, education and elections) | Protocol 4 (Civil imprisonment, freedom of movement, expulsion) | Protocol 6 (Prohibition of death penalty in peacetime) | Protocol 7 (Fair trial rights, spousal equality) | Protocol 12 (Right of non-discrimination) | Protocol 13 (Prohibition of death penalty in all circumstances) |
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Albania | Full | Yes | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[1] |
Andorra | With Reservations | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Armenia | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Austria | With Reservations | Yes | With Reservations | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Azerbaijan, except: | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Belgium | Full | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Full | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Bulgaria | Full | Yes | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Croatia | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Cyprus, except: | Full | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
- Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus area | Full (through Turkey[2]) | Yes | With Reservations | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
- UN Buffer Zone | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Czech Republic | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Denmark | Full | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | With Reservations | No | Yes |
- Faroe Islands | Full | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | With Reservations | No | Yes |
- Greenland | Full | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | With Reservations | No | No |
Estonia | With Reservations | Yes | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Finland | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
France, except: | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | With Reservations | No | No |
- Clipperton Island | With Reservations | Yes | With Reservations | With Reservations | No | With Reservations | No | No |
- Guadeloupe | With Reservations | Yes | With Reservations | With Reservations | No | With Reservations | No | No |
- French Guiana | With Reservations | Yes | With Reservations | With Reservations | No | With Reservations | No | No |
- French Polynesia | With Reservations | Yes | With Reservations | With Reservations | No | With Reservations | No | No |
- French Southern Territories | With Reservations | Yes | With Reservations | With Reservations | No | With Reservations | No | No |
- Martinique | With Reservations | Yes | With Reservations | With Reservations | No | With Reservations | No | No |
- Mayotte | With Reservations | Yes | With Reservations | With Reservations | No | With Reservations | No | No |
- New Caledonia | With Reservations | Yes | With Reservations | With Reservations | No | With Reservations | No | No |
- Réunion | With Reservations | Yes | With Reservations | With Reservations | No | With Reservations | No | No |
- Saint-Pierre and Miquelon | With Reservations | Yes | With Reservations | With Reservations | No | With Reservations | No | No |
- Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean | With Reservations | Yes | With Reservations | With Reservations | No | With Reservations | No | No |
- Wallis and Futana | With Reservations | Yes | With Reservations | With Reservations | No | With Reservations | No | No |
Georgia, except: | Full | Yes | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
- Abkhazia | With Reservations (through Russia[2]) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
- South Ossetia | With Reservations (through Russia[2]) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
Germany | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Greece | Full | Yes | With Reservations | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Hungary | Full | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Iceland | Full | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Ireland | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Italy | Full | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Latvia | Full | Yes | With Reservations | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Liechtenstein | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Lithuania | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Luxembourg | Full | Yes | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | With Reservations | No | Yes |
Malta | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Moldova, except: | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
- Transnistria | With Reservations (through Russia[2]) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
Monaco | With Reservations | Yes | No | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Netherlands (European part) | Full | Yes | Yes | With Reservations[3] | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
- Aruba | Full | Yes | Yes | With Reservations | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
- Curaçao | Full | Yes | Yes | With Reservations | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
- Sint Maarten | Full | Yes | Yes | With Reservations | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
- Caribbean Netherlands | Full | Yes | Yes | With Reservations | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
North Macedonia | Full | Yes | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Norway, except: | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
- Bouvet Island | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
- Peter I Island | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Poland | Full | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Portugal | With Reservations | Yes | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Romania | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Russia | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
San Marino | With Reservations | Yes | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Serbia | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
- Kosovo | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Slovakia | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Slovenia | Full | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Spain | With Reservations | Yes | With Reservations | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Sweden | Full | Yes | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Switzerland | Full | Yes | No | No | Yes | With Reservations | No | Yes |
Turkey | Full | Yes | With Reservations | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Ukraine | With Reservations | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
United Kingdom, except: | Full | Yes | With Reservations | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
- Akrotiri and Dhekelia (Sovereign Base Areas) (Cyprus) | Full | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
- Anguilla | Full | Temporary (Until 14 January 2011) | With Reservations | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
- Bermuda | Full | Temporary (Until 14 January 2011) | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
- British Antarctic Territory | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
- British Indian Ocean Territory | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
- British Virgin Islands | Full | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
- Cayman Islands | Full | Yes | With Reservations | No | No | No | No | No |
- Falkland Islands | Full | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
- Gibraltar | Full | Yes | With Reservations | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
- Guernsey | Full | With Reservations | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
- Jersey | Full | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
- Isle of Man | Full | Yes | With Reservations | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
- Montserrat | Full | Temporary (Until 14 January 2011) | With Reservations | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
- Pitcairn Island | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
- Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha | Full | Temporary (Until 14 January 2011) | With Reservations | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | Full | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
- Turks and Caicos Islands | Full | Temporary (Until 14 January 2011) | With Reservations | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
References
[edit]- ^ According to the Law No. 9639 of November 9, 2006, with the title "For the ratification of the protocol No. 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms with regard to the removal of death penalty in all circumstances". No reserves were made regarding this Protocol, and it has binding force in all circumstances, according to Article 1 of the Albanian law. Published in the Official Gazette which can be found online at http://qbz.gov.al/botime/fletore_zyrtare/2006/PDF-2006/127-2006.pdf
- ^ a b c d As occupying power
- ^ "Vierde Protocol bij het Verdrag tot bescherming van de rechten van de mens en de fundamentele vrijheden, tot het waarborgen van bepaalde rechten en vrijheden die niet reeds in het Verdrag en in het eerste Protocol daarbij zijn opgenomen". Government of the Netherlands. Retrieved 23 February 2012.