AGLC4 Rule 14.3.1: Basic Documents of the Council of Europe

The Statute of the Council of Europe and the European Convention on Human Rights are cited in the fixed chapter 8 forms set out in the rule, the Convention being followed by as amended by and the relevant amending protocol. Substantive protocols are cited with their amendments in the same way, and amending protocols are cited under chapter 8 with the ETS or CETS as the treaty series where available.

AGLC4 page 201

Format

Quoted from the Guide, page 201
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, opened for signature 4 November 1950, 213 UNTS 221 (entered into force 3 September 1953), as amended by Relevant Amending Protocol.

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Formatting

  • Both fixed citations use the chapter 8 layout: italic title, comma, opened for signature and the date, comma, UNTS citation, entry into force in round brackets.
  • For the Convention and substantive protocols, a comma follows the entry into force bracket, then as amended by in roman lower case, then the full citation of the amending protocol.
  • The amending protocol takes the chapter 8 form, with the European Treaty Series or Council of Europe Treaty Series as the treaty series where available.
  • ETS and CETS citations are the series abbreviation, No and the treaty number, roman, with no full stops.
  • The ETS runs to No 193; from 2004 (No 194) the series is the CETS.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 201
  1. 26
    Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, opened for signature 4 November 1950, 213 UNTS 221 (entered into force 3 September 1953), as amended by Protocol No 14 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Amending the Control System of the Convention, opened for signature 13 May 2004, CETS No 194 (entered into force 1 June 2010).
  2. 27
    Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, opened for signature 20 March 1952, ETS No 9 (entered into force 18 May 1954), as amended by Protocol No 11 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, opened for signature 11 May 1994, ETS No 155 (entered into force 1 November 1998).

Forms in the rule

Quoted from the Guide, page 201
  • ‘ETS’
  • ‘CETS’
  • Statute of the Council of Europe, opened for signature 5 May 1949, 87 UNTS 103 (entered into force 3 August 1949).

See also

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Formats, examples, passages, tables and the forms marked Not are quoted from the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (4th ed, Melbourne University Law Review Association, 2018), with the page of the Guide they appear on. Titles, summaries and explanations are our own.