Over the last decade the Court has been progressively involved in the execution of its judgments. Th e traditional approach, according to which the judgments of the Court are only of a declaratory nature and the Committee of Ministers has an exclusive competence to supervise their execution, does not correspond to recent practice. Th e Court has repeatedly recommended or even prescribed general or individual measures in the framework not only of pilot or quasi-pilot judgments, but also of "ordinary" ones. It is uncontestable that the Committee of Ministers bears the primary responsibility in the fi eld of execution. Nevertheless, its powers are not exclusive. Th e Court has a complementary competence in this respect. Th e relevant case law has a solid legal basis in the Convention, as well as in instruments recently adopted by the Committee of Ministers. However, when indicating execution measures it is necessary for the Court to maintain and respect the institutional balance provided in the Convention and to leave, as a matter of principle, a more or less wide margin of appreciation to States.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.