CEDH · PRESS;GENERAL;ENG — 29 mars 2000

.s3ABFC313 { font-size:10pt } .s598389F9 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center; font-size:12pt } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .s85646119 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; font-size:12pt } .s23A41E03 { width:36pt; display:inline-block } .s420E98AC { margin-top:0pt; margin-left:360pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; text-align:justify; font-size:12pt } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt } .s6CFF9571 { width:25.89pt; display:inline-block } .s768E2FDC { width:21pt; display:inline-block } .s6DFF6F2E { width:12.66pt; display:inline-block } .s98A7B623 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid } .sA1D3DA2E { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify } EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS                         220 29.3.2000   Press release issued by the Registrar   ELECTION OF TWO NEW SECTION PRESIDENTS   On 27 March 2000 the European Court of Human Rights elected two Section Presidents, Jean-Paul Costa and Georg Ress.   They will take office on 1 May 2000 for a term of 18 months as Presidents of Sections III and IV respectively.   Mr Jean-Paul Costa is the French Judge. He was born in 1941 and studied at the Institute of Political Studies of Paris, subsequently obtaining a post-graduate diploma from the Law Faculty in Paris. From 1964 to 1966 he attended the National School of Administration and in June 1966 he was appointed auditeur at the Conseil d’Etat . From 1973 to 1977 he was the Deputy Director General of the Intergovernmental Bureau for Informatics. From 1981 to 1984 he was head of the private office of the Minister of Education. From 1985 to 1986 he chaired the French delegation during the negotiations for the Treaty between France and the United Kingdom for the channel fixed link. From 1989 to 1993 he was Assessor of a Chamber in the Judicial Division of the Conseil d’Etat and from 1993 to 1998 he was the President of a Chamber. He has been a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights since 1 November 1998.   Mr Georg Ress is the German Judge. He was born in 1935 and studied at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Vienna. In 1972 he obtained a doctorate in law from the University of Heidelberg and in 1976 the Habilitation . From 1977 to 1998 he was Full Professor of International and Constitutional Law and the Law of the European Communities at the University of the Saarland (Saarbrücken). In 1979 he was appointed Director of the Institute of European Studies at the University of the Saarland and in 1995 Director of the Institute of Human Rights at the same University. From 1994 to 1998 he was the German member of the European Commission of Human Rights. He has been a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights since 1 November 1998.     The Court’s 41 judges (one in respect of each State to have ratified the European Convention on Human Rights) work in four Sections from which Chambers of seven judges are constituted. The Court also sits as a Grand Chamber of seventeen Judges.   *** Further information on the Court can be found on its Internet site: http://www.echr.coe.int   Registry of the European Court of Human Rights F – 67075 Strasbourg Cedex Contacts:   Roderick Liddell (telephone: (0)3 88 41 24 92) Or:   Emma Hellyer (telephone: (0)3 90 21 42 15) Fax:   (0)3 88 41 27 91   The European Court of Human Rights was set up in 1959 in Strasbourg to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights.   On 1 November 1998 a permanent Court was established, replacing the original two-tier system of a part-time Commission and Court.