CEDH · PRESS;GENERAL;ENG — 7 novembre 2005

.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 } .s94935B0F { width:389.85pt; display:inline-block } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .s7ED160F0 { text-decoration:none } .s33165EBA { font-family:Arial; font-size:8pt; vertical-align:super; color:#0069d6 } .sCB9E0544 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:left } .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 } .sF6A12959 { width:33%; height:1px; text-align:left } .s2EB42ED2 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt } .s653E6C45 { font-family:Arial; font-size:6.67pt; vertical-align:super; color:#0069d6 } EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS     595   07.11.2005   Press release NEW REGISTRAR ELECTED   Erik Fribergh has today been elected Registrar of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. [1]   Mr Fribergh, a Swedish national, was born in 1950. Elected by the Court’s Judges sitting in plenary session, he takes up his duties with immediate effect for a five-year term of office.   Mr Fribergh has been Deputy Registrar of the Court since October 2002 and before that was one of the Court’s four Section Registrars. He was Deputy Secretary to the European Commission of Human Rights from 1997-1998.   Before joining the Council of Europe (secretariat of the European Commission of Human Rights) in 1981, Mr Fribergh worked in Sweden as an associate judge and judge at the Administrative Court of Appeal in Gothenburg (1976-1978), then as Deputy Secretary to the Governmental Commission against Unnecessary Bureaucracy in the Ministry of Local Government (1978-1979) and then as Deputy Secretary to the Governmental Committee on Administrative Law in the Ministry of Justice (1979-1981).   ***   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)   Beverley Jacobs (telephone: +00 33 (0)3 90 21 54 21) 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.     [1]   The previous Registrar, Paul Mahoney, resigned from the Court following his appointment as a judge of the European Union Civil Service Tribunal.