EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN ACTION / Alla Tymofeyeva (ed.)

CHAPTER III. ADMISSIBILITY CRITERIA

1. MAIN PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT

Article 35 of the Convention Admissibility criteria

1. The Court may only deal with the matter after all domestic remedies have been exhausted, according to the generally recognised rules of international law, and within a period of four months from the date on which the final decision was taken. 2. The Court shall not deal with any application submitted under Article 34 that a is anonymous; or b. is substantially the same as a matter that has already been examined by the Court or has already been submitted to another procedure of international investigation or settlement and contains no relevant new information. 3. The Court shall declare inadmissible any individual application submitted under Article 34 if it considers that : a. the application is incompatible with the provisions of the Convention or the Protocols thereto, manifestly ill-founded, or an abuse of the right of individual application; or b. the applicant has not suffered a significant disadvantage, unless respect for human rights as defined in the Convention and the Protocols thereto requires an examination of the application on the merits and provided that no case may be rejected on this ground which has not been duly considered by a domestic tribunal. 4. The Court shall reject any application which it considers inadmissible under this Article. It may do so at any stage of the proceedings. 1. An application under Article 34 of the Convention shall be made on the application form provided by the Registry, unless the Court decides otherwise. It shall contain all of the information requested in the relevant parts of the application form and set out (a) the name, date of birth, nationality and address of the applicant and, where the applicant is a legal person, the full name, date of incorporation or registration, the official registra- tion number (if any) and the official address; (b) the name, occupation, address, telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address of the rep- resentative, if any; (c) the name of the Contracting Party or Parties against which the application is made; (d) a concise and legible statement of the facts; (e) a concise and legible statement of the alleged violation(s) of the Convention and the rel- evant arguments; and (f ) a concise and legible statement confirming the applicant’s compliance with the admissi- bility criteria laid down in Article 35 § 1 of the Convention. Rule 47 of the Rules of Court Contents of an individual application

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