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4. EXAMPLES OF OPINIONS AND STUDIES: • Opinion No. 209/2002, CDL-AD (2002) 34, Opinion on the Implementation of the Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, 18 December 2002. • Opinion No. 648/2011, CDL-AD(2012)014, Opinion on Legal Certainty and the Independence of the Judiciary in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 18 June 2012. • Opinion No. 697/2012, CDL-AD(2013)004, Joint Amicus Curiae Brief for the Constitutional Court of Moldova on the compatibility with European Standards of Law No. 192 of 12 July 2012 on the prohibition of the use of symbols of the totalitarian communist regime and of the promotion of totalitarian ideologies of the Republic of Moldova, 11 March 2013. • Opinion No. 720/2013, CDL-AD(2013)012, Opinion on the Fourth Amendment to the Fundamental Law of Hungary, 17 June 2013. • Opinion No. 772/2014, CDL-AD(2014)015, Opinion on the procedure for appointing judges of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic,13 June 2014. • Study No. 512/2009, CDL-AD(2011)003, Report on the Rule of Law, 4 April 2011. • Study No. 711/2011, CDL-AD(2016)007, Rule of Law Checklist, 16 March 2016. Questions: 1. What are the main tasks of the Venice Commission? 2. What outputs does the Venice Commission produce? What are the differences among these outputs? 3. What are the main similarities and the main differences between the Venice Commission and the ECtHR? 4. Can the ECtHR request an opinion of the Venice Commission? Can the Venice Commission submit an application to the ECtHR? 5. Does the Venice Commission rely on the case-law of the ECtHR in its outputs? Does the ECtHR rely on the VC outputs in its case-law? 6. Introduce one opinion or study of the Venice Commission in more details.

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