CEDH · PRESS;GENERAL;ENG — 27 mai 2004

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .sFE10DC93 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt } .sA42DD268 { width:391.08pt; display:inline-block } .sCB9E0544 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:left } .s9C140EC2 { width:357.72pt; display:inline-block } .s40F41F73 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:right } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .s13F94BDE { font-family:Arial; letter-spacing:-0.1pt } .s9F8EB0C0 { width:18.63pt; display:inline-block } .s9E97F54A { width:85.05pt; display:inline-block } .s4DDA3AA3 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS     269   27.5.2004     Press release issued by the Registrar     APPOINTMENT OF NEW INTERNATIONAL MEMBER TO BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA CONSTITUTIONAL COURT     The President of the European Court of Human Rights, Luzius Wildhaber, a fter consulting the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, has appointed Mrs Constance Grewe, Professor of Comparative Public   Law at the Law Faculty, and   Vice-President of the Scientific Council,   of the Robert Schuman   University (Strasbourg III) as an international member of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.   Mrs Grewe replaces Mr Didier Maus who was appointed a member of the Court in 2002 and resigned in December 2003.   The Constitutional Court was set up under the Constitution set out in Annex 4 to the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina ("the Dayton Agreement"). According to Article VI of the Constitution the Court is to be composed of nine members, four members appointed by the House of Representatives of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, two members appointed by the Assembly of the Republic Srpska, and three members appointed by the President of the European Court of Human Rights.   ***   Registry of the European Court of Human Rights F – 67075 Strasbourg Cedex Press contacts:   Roderick Liddell (telephone: +00 33 (0)3 88 41 24 92)   Emma Hellyer (telephone: +00 33 (0)3 90 21 42 15)   Stéphanie Klein (telephone: +00 33 (0)3 88 41 21 54) Fax: +00 33 (0)3 88 41 27 91   The European Court of Human Rights was set up in Strasbourg by the Council of Europe Member States in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights. Since 1 November 1998 it has sat as a full-time Court composed of an equal number of judges to that of the States party to the Convention. The Court examines the admissibility and merits of applications submitted to it. It sits in Chambers of 7 judges or, in exceptional cases, as a Grand Chamber of 17 judges. The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe supervises the execution of the Court’s judgments. More detailed information about the Court and its activities can be found on its Internet site.