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Initially, the principle of human rights protection was not stipulated by the Treaties, but the constant increase of the human rights’ importance at European level determined the adoption of various documents in the field. The present chapter analyzes the evolution of regulating the human rights in the primary and secondary European legislation, pointing out relevant moments out of which we indicate the insertion of the provision regarding the European Union’s possibility to accede to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), while a special attention is given in studying the rejection of the Draft Agreement of the EU accession to the ECHR, whose main consequence represents the impossibility to submit the EU’s legal system to an independent external control in the field of human rights.
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Petrescu, O. (2017). Accession to the European Convention on Human Rights: EU Integration into a Legal and Judicial System Reserved to States. In: Pérez de las Heras, B. (eds) Democratic Legitimacy in the European Union and Global Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41381-5_7
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