NGOs under European Convention on Human Rights / Tymofeyeva

reason, in theory, non-government organisations may invoke any provision of the Convention. The first part of the present chapter shall focus on the rights bestowed on Article 34 NGOs by the Convention, in its narrow sense. The following part of this chapter will concentrate on the rights that can be found in the Protocols to the Convention. It is necessary to keep in mind that all the material Articles contained in the Protocols to the Convention are considered to be the additional Articles of the Convention and the parts of this treaty in the wider meaning. For example, Article 7 of Protocol No. 7 titled ‘Relationship to the Convention’ envisages: “As between the States Parties, the provisions of Article 1 to 6 of this Protocol shall be regarded as additional Articles to the Convention, and all the provisions of the Convention shall apply accordingly,” 544 which confirms this broader understanding. The author nevertheless decided to separate these groups of rights in order to make the book more comprehensible and synoptic. Each section of the first and second parts of the Second Chapter will focus on one Article of the Convention in the order that exists in this treaty, starting from the earliest provision applicable to non-governmental organisations. The text does not contain information on the legal norms of the Convention, which were not subject to the Court’s judgments regarding Article 34 NGOs. Since it was not established that non-governmental organisations may enjoy directly guarantees under Articles 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the Convention, we are going to start from the analysis of Article 6 of the current international treaty.

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