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On 11 December 2015 the Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH) of the Council of Europe adopted the report on the longer-term future of the system of the European Convention on Human Rights. The report has been transmitted to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.

The report is the result of the work carried out in 2014 and 2015 by the GT-GDR-F and it covers the Convention system as a whole, and does not exclusively focus on the functioning of the Court. Four overarching areas have been considered important for the longer-term effectiveness and viability of the Convention system: national implementation of the Convention; the authority of the Court; the execution of judgments and its supervision; and the place of the Convention mechanism in the European and international legal order. For each of these areas the present and future challenges have been identified. It was considered whether the current system has the ability to respond to those challenges, within the framework of the existing structures to determine whether further reform is needed outside the framework of the existing structures, namely those that presuppose the creation of a new mechanism or a new function carried out by an existing mechanism, or the elimination of an existing mechanism.

Below follows the project of the Conference, which will take place at the University of Lisbon Faculty of Law on May 20, 2016.

Language of the conference (preferential sequence): (1) EN; (2) FR; (3) PT

CONFERENCE PROVISIONAL plan

May 2016

Opening Session 
09h45  

1st Session
The place of the Convention mechanism in the European and international legal order

• 10h00   Martin Kuijer (Chair of the GT-GDR-F)
   
• 10h20   Maria Luísa Duarte (University of Lisbon Faculty of Law / CIDP)
   
• 10h40   Maria José Rangel de Mesquita (University of Lisbon Faculty of Law / Judge, Portuguese Constitutional Court)
   
• 11h00   Debate

11h20   Coffee break

2nd Session
The execution of judgments and its supervision

• 11h40   Irene Kitsou-Milonas (Council of Europe)
   
• 12h00   Maria de Fátima da Graça Carvalho (Deputy Attorney-General / Agent of the Portuguese Government, European Court of Human Rights)
   
• 12h20   Rui Guerra da Fonseca (University of Lisbon Faculty of Law / CIDP)
   
• 12h40   Debate                 

13h00   Lunch

3rd Session
The authority of the Court

• 14h30   Vít A Schorm (Agent of the Czech Government before the European Court of Human Rights)
   
• 14h50   Ana Maria Guerra Martins (University of Lisbon Faculty of Law / Judge, Portuguese Constitutional Court)
   
• 15h10   Debate

15h30   Coffee break

4th Session
National implementation of the Convention

• 15h50   Martin Kuijer (Chair of the GT-GDR-F)
   
• 16h10   João da Silva Miguel (Director of the Center for Judiciary Studies / Judge, Portuguese Supreme Court of Justice / Former Agent of the Portuguese Government, ECHR)
   
• 16h30   João Tiago Silveira (University of Lisbon Faculty of Law / CIDP)
   
• 16h50   Debate

17h10   Closing session: concluding remarks            

• Benedita Menezes Queiroz (University of Lisbon Faculty of Law / CIDP /PhD EUI)
• Marisa Quaresma dos Reis (University of Lisbon Faculty of Law / CIDP)