Annex 2: international instruments

• Author: Hornich, Patricia
• Pages: 76-78

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ANNEX 2: INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS

Country: Liechtenstein

Date: 31 December 2019

Instrument

Date of

signature

Date of

ratification

Derogations/

reservations

relevant to

equality and

non-

discrimination

Right of

individual

petition

accepted?

Can this

instrume

nt be

directly

relied

upon in

domestic

courts by

individua

ls?

European

Convention of 4

November 1950

for the

Protection of

Human Rights

and

Fundamental

Freedoms,

including

Protocols 1-12

and 14 (ECHR)

23

November

1978142

8

September

1982

Art. 64 and Art.

6(1): Regarding

publicity of trials,

several existing

national legal

provisions that

might limit

publicity shall

remain valid.

Yes

Yes

Revised

European Social

Charter

Not

signed143

Not ratified

N/A

N/A

N/A

International

Covenant on

Civil and

Political Rights

(CCPR)

16

December

1966144

10

December

1998

Declaration

concerning

Article 3145

Reservation

concerning

Article 14(1)146

Reservation

concerning

Article 17(1)147

Reservation

concerning

Yes

Yes

142 European Convention on Human Rights (Europäische Menschenrechtskonvention), LGBl. 1982 No. 60/1,

available at: https://www.gesetze.li/lilexprod/lgsystpage2.jsp?formname=showlaw&lgblid=

1982060001&gueltigdate=02032016.

143 Source: http://www.conventions.coe.int/

Treaty/Commun/ChercheSig.asp?NT=163&CM=7&DF=26/10/2008&CL=ENG.

144 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Internationaler Pakt vom 16 Dezember 1966 über

bürgerliche und politische Rechte), LGBl. 1999 No. 58, available at:

https://www.gesetze.li/lilexprod/lgsystpage2.jsp?formname=showlaw&lgblid=1999058000&gueltigdate=02

032016.

145 ‘The Principality of Liechtenstein declares that it does not interpret the provisions of Article 3 of the

Covenant as constituting an impediment to the constitutional rules on the hereditary succession to the

throne of the Reigning Prince.’

146 ‘The Principality of Liechtenstein reserves the right to apply the provisions of Article 14, para. 1 of

the Covenant, concerning the principle that hearings must be held and judgments pronounced in public,

only within the limits deriving from the principles at present embodied in the Liechtenstein legislation on

legal proceedings.’

147 ‘The Principality of Liechtenstein makes the reservation that the right to respect for family life, as

guaranteed by Article 17, para. 1 of the Covenant, shall be exercised, with regard to aliens, in accordance

with the principles at present embodied in the legislation on aliens."