Artykuł 34 EKPC określa kryteria dopuszczalności wniesienia przez jednostkę skargi do Europejskiego Trybunału Praw Człowieka, ale stanowi również, że skarga może być wniesiona przez grupę jednostek, które twierdzą, że są ofiarą naruszenia praw zawartych w Konwencji lub w jednym z Protokołów do Konwencji. Celem artykułu jest analiza orzecznictwa Trybunału, które potwierdza, że ochrona praw grup jednostek może również wynikać z orzeczenia Trybunału wydanego w indywidualnej sprawie, jeżeli tylko wnioskodawca udowodni, że jest członkiem danej grupy wrażliwej i cała grupa wymaga przyznania takiej samej ochrony. Ważne jest, aby wrażliwa grupa i jej członkowie byli identyfikowani przez pryzmat charakterystycznych kryteriów oraz wspólnych okoliczności, w których ich prawa zostały naruszone.
The social model of disability, which focuses on determining the reasons for disabilities not connected with the individual as such, but pointing at the social barriers that limit the individual in the environment where he/she lives, is consistent with the assumptions of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and is a coherent and complementary element of the concept of individual vulnerability attributed to people who are marginalised in a given society. Since the EU is a party to the aforementioned Convention, while the provisions of the ECHR should introduce the minimum standard of protection of fundamental rights in the EU, it should be determined whether the legislative standard set by the Convention has been implemented in a binding manner at the level of EU law and ECHR.
The Court of Justice of the European Union operates on a case-by-case basis. This means that its decisions normally relate to specific problems occurring in a specific Member State. Consequently it is often hard to ‘translate’ this case law into the national legal system of a different Member State. Nevertheless the case law of the Court of Justice has consequences not only for the individual Member States. It also has harmonising effects. In this sense, the principles of primacy and of direct effect of EU provisions, as well as the obligation to interpret domestic law in conformity with EU law, operate as the minimum requirements which the legal systems of Member States must fulfil. Poland joined the European Union in May 2004. At that time the number of Member States increased to 25. The existence of avenues of judicial protection in the EU raised a number of questions from the very beginning. Now, after 15 years of experience it is time to consider the standard of application of EU law by Polish courts.
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