issued by the Registrar of the Court

ECHR 079 (2024)

05.04.2024

Launch of the HUDOC case-law database in Romanian

The Court today launched a Romanian-language user interface of its case-law database HUDOC
(https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/rum), developed in co-operation with the European Institute of Romania
and with the support of the project “Foster transparency of judicial decisions and enhancing the
national implementation of the ECHR” (TJENI).
The event was hosted by the National Institute of Magistracy in Bucharest and attracted a wide
range of legal professionals. Speaking at the launch, Judge Sebastian Rǎdulețu, elected in respect of
Romania, affirmed: “The principle of subsidiarity, put forward by the Court since its inception and
now firmly enshrined with Protocol 15 and reinforced by Protocol 16, belongs to the core of the
Convention system. As a consequence, the domestic courts bear the primary responsibility for
enforcing the Convention at a national level and, in this process, they must interpret it according to
the Court’s case-law. Therefore, it is critical for Romanian judges, and for other national
stakeholders, to have enhanced access to this complex and comprehensive body of jurisprudence
which sets the minimal standards for the protection and promotion of fundamental rights across
Europe.”
The Romanian user interface joins the existing English, French, Armenian, Bulgarian, Georgian,
Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian versions of the HUDOC database which now contains over
36,000 case-law translations in 34 languages other than English and French. Over 3,000 texts have
been uploaded in Romanian and emanate from different partners. A language-specific filter allows
for rapid searching in HUDOC, including in free text.
Case-law guides and other material translated into Romanian are available on the Court’s
knowledge-sharing platform ECHR-KS and on the Court’s main website. In addition, videos in
Romanian are available on the Court’s YouTube channel.

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Contact
Stefano Palermiti, Head of the HUDOC Unit, Directorate of the Jurisconsult
(Stefano.Palermiti@echr.coe.int)

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