CEDH · PRESS;GENERAL;ENG — 1 octobre 2007

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .sFE10DC93 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .s40F41F73 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:right } .s4DDA3AA3 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } .sADADF4A7 { font-family:Arial; text-decoration:underline } .sCB9E0544 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:left } .sC7EAD8B { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline } EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS   636 01.10.2007   Press release issued by the Registrar   Court President welcomes cooperation with French Conseil d’Etat     On 28 September 2007 a delegation from the French Conseil d’Etat led by Mr Jean-Marc Sauvé, Vice-President of the Conseil d’Etat , and including among others Mr Bernard Stirn, President of the Judicial Division, Mr Jean-Marie Delarue, Deputy President of the Judicial Division, and Mr   Christophe Devys, member of the Conseil d’Etat , met Mr   Jean-Paul Costa, President of the European Court of Human Rights, and several judges and members of the Court’s Registry. Members of the Conseil d’Etat and judges of the Court discussed and compared notes on four case-law-related subjects.   At the close of the meeting Mr Costa welcomed Mr Sauvé’s remarks describing the visit as an unprecedented event which reflected the great interest taken by the Conseil d’Etat in the human rights protection system of the European Convention on Human Rights. Mr Sauvé said that the Conseil d’Etat drew heavily on the Court’s case-law whose influence was both qualitative and quantitative, as almost 40 % of the judgments of the Conseil d’Etat applied the law enshrined in the Convention.   The President of the Court and the Vice-President of the Conseil d’Etat expressed the hope that this meeting would be a first step towards increased cooperation between the Court and the Conseil d’Etat . The Vice-President of the Conseil d’Etat has now sent a letter to the President of the Court opening up avenues for exchanges between the two institutions, and he has invited the Court to return the Conseil d’Etat’ s visit, towards the end of 2008.   ***   Further information about the Court can be found on its Internet site ( http://www.echr.coe.int ).   Press contacts Stéphanie Klein (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 88 41 21 54) Tracey Turner-Tretz (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 88 41 35 30) Paramy Chanthalangsy (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 90 21 54 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.