Abstract
Creating the European standard of human rights is a complex process, to which various international organizations operating in Europe are involved by various ways. The thing is that EU Member States can operate side by side three, respectively four separate systems of human rights protection: national systems (ie. the constitutional Charter of Rights and Freedoms, together with the constitutional judiciary), the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU, the system of the Council of Europe (esp. the European Convention on Human Rights), respectively universal systems of human rights protection (based UN treaties and ILO).
From a practical point of view it seems to be the most important relationship between the European Convention on Human Rights and the protection of fundamental (human) rights in the EU, which is the subject of this paper.