Opinion 2/13 of the European Court of Justice on the European Union’s
accession to the European Convention on Human Rights has dealt a severe blow
to the ambitions of the EU and the Council of Europe to put the relations between
the Union and the Convention system on a sure and formal footing. The Court
of Justice held numerous aspects of the Draft Accession Agreement to be
incompatible with the Treaties. Accession therefore cannot go ahead as planned.