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EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union enshrines into primary EU law a wide array of fundamental rights enjoyed by EU citizens and residents. It became legally binding with the coming into force of the Treaty of Lisbon on 1 December 2009.

This section of the website encompasses Charterpedia, an online tool which provides easy-to-access information about the Charter and its provisions. For each Charter Article, it includes the official explanations of the Charter Articles, related European and national case law, and related provisions in national constitutional law as well as in international law. It also contains references to academic analysis and related FRA publications. The information is also available offline in our EU Charter App.

The original compilation was created by the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) Committee. Since 2009 it has been maintained and continuously expanded by the FRA.

The European and national case law is also accessible via the Case-Law Database.

Case-Law Database

Our new e-learning tool Charter e-guidance assists judges and other legal practitioners on the field of application of the Charter as laid down in Article 51.

277 results found

  • Tien jaar bindend EU-Handvest van de Grondrechten in Nederland: nog een wereld te winnen?
    Translated Title:
    Ten years of binding EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in the Netherlands: another world to win?
    Author(s):
    Krommendijk, Jasper and De Waele, Henri
    Published in: Tijdschrift voor Europees en Economisch Recht 3
    Year:
    2020
    Page numbers:
    127-131
  • Świeże spojrzenie TSUE na Kartę praw podstawowych Unii Europejskiej
    Translated Title:
    A recent look of the CJEU on the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
    Author(s):
    Surdykowska, Barbara
    Published in: Praca i Zabezpieczenie Społeczne 61 2
    Year:
    2020
    Page numbers:
    12
  • Świeże spojrzenie TSUE na Kartę praw podstawowych Unii Europejskiej
    Translated Title:
    A recent look of the CJEU on the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
    Author(s):
    Surdykowska, Barbara
    Published in: Praca i Zabezpieczenie Społeczne 61 2
    Year:
    2020
    Page numbers:
    12
  • Aby Karta praw podstawowych Unii Europejskiej była rzeczywistością dla wszystkich: 10 lat, odkąd Karta jest prawnie wiążąca
    Translated Title:
    Let the Charter of Fundamental Rights be reality for everyone: 10 years since the Charter became legally binding
    Author(s):
    Lenaerts, Koen
    Published in: Europejski Przegląd Sądowy
    Year:
    2020
    Page numbers:
    4
  • Aby Karta praw podstawowych Unii Europejskiej była rzeczywistością dla wszystkich: 10 lat, odkąd Karta jest prawnie wiążąca
    Translated Title:
    Let the Charter of Fundamental Rights be reality for everyone: 10 years since the Charter became legally binding
    Author(s):
    Lenaerts, Koen
    Published in: Europejski Przegląd Sądowy
    Year:
    2020
    Page numbers:
    4
  • O acórdão Associação Sindical dos Juízes Portugueses como antecâmara para a intervenção do TJUE na crise do Estado de Direito na União Europeia
    Translated Title:
    The decision "Trade Union Association of Portuguese Judges" as an antechamber for the intervention of the CJEU in the crisis of the rule of law in the European Union
    Author(s):
    Pereira de Sousa, Inês
    Published in: Revista Ibérica do Direito 27 1
    Year:
    2020
    Page numbers:
    100-112
  • Instrumente juridice de protectie a drepturilor fundamentale la nivelul Uniunii Europene
    Translated Title:
    European Union legal instruments for the protection of fundamental human rights
    Author(s):
    Oana-Mihaela Salomia
    Published in: C.H. Beck Publishing
    Year:
    2020
  • Instrumente juridice de protectie a drepturilor fundamentale la nivelul Uniunii Europene
    Translated Title:
    European Union legal instruments for the protection of fundamental human rights
    Author(s):
    Oana-Mihaela Salomia
    Published in: C.H. Beck Publishing
    Year:
    2020
  • Temeljne pravice v času koronakrize z vidika prava EU
    Translated Title:
    Fundamental rights at the time of corona crisis from the perspective of EU law
    Author(s):
    Trstenjak, Verica
    Published in: Pravna praksa, Časopis za pravna vprašanja 39
    Year:
    2020
    Page numbers:
    1-8
  • Temeljne pravice v času koronakrize z vidika prava EU
    Translated Title:
    Fundamental rights at the time of corona crisis from the perspective of EU law
    Author(s):
    Trstenjak, Verica
    Published in: Pravna praksa, Časopis za pravna vprašanja 39
    Year:
    2020
    Page numbers:
    1-8
  • From Portugal to Poland: The Court of Justice of the European Union as watchdog of judicial independence
    Author(s):
    Torres Perez, Aida
    Published in: Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 27 1
    Year:
    2020
    Page numbers:
    105-119
  • The Charter of Fundamental Rights: ‘All EU-r rights’ in 54 provisions
    Author(s):
    Toggenburg, G.
    Published in: Blog Series “All EU-r rights”
    Publisher:
    Blog EUreka!
    Year:
    2019
  • La relazione fra Carta dei Diritti Fondamentali dell’Unione Europea e direttive nelle controversie orizzontali
    Translated Title:
    The relationship between the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, and directives in disputes between private individuals
    Author(s):
    Rossi, L. S.
    Published in: Federalismi.it 10
    Year:
    2019
  • Le direttive in materia sociale e la Carta dei diritti fondamentali dell’Unione europea: un dialogo tra fonti per dilatare e razionalizzare (?) gli orizzonti dell’effetto diretto. Il caso della giurisprudenza “sulle ferie”
    Translated Title:
    The directives in the social field, and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights: A dialogue between sources of law to widen and streamline (?) the scope of direct effect. Case law on “leave from work”
    Author(s):
    Condinanzi, M.
    Published in: Federalismi.it 10
    Year:
    2019
  • Brexit and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
    Author(s):
    Markakis, M.
    Published in: Public Law: the Constitutional & Administrative Law of the Commonwealth 1
    Year:
    2019
    Page numbers:
    82-101
  • All EU-r rights - blog series
    Author(s):
    Toggenburg, G.
    Publisher:
    Blog EUreka!
    Year:
    2019
  • Commentary on the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, 2nd edition
    Author(s):
    Holoubek, M. and Lienbacher, G. (eds.)
    Published in: GRC-Kommentar
    Year:
    2019
  • The Fundamental Right to Good Administration: from the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union to the prospects of its effectiveness and control in the constitutional orders of Portugal and Spain: comparative developments in the Brazilian real
    Author(s):
    Silva, C. S.
    Published in: Seqüência - Legal and Political Studies 41 82
    Year:
    2019
    Page numbers:
    pp 176-201
  • Hassrede und Freiheit der Meinungsäußerung
    Translated Title:
    Hate Speech and Freedom of Expression
    Author(s):
    Struth, A.K.
    Published in: Der Schutzbereich der Meinungsäußerungsfreiheit in Fällen demokratiefeindlicher Äußerungen nach der Europäischen Menschenrechtskonvention, dem Grundgesetz und der Charta der Grundrechte der Europäischen Union
    Year:
    2019
  • Genome Editing and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
    Author(s):
    Weingerl, P.
    Published in: Kraljić, S., Reberšek Gorišek, J. et al (eds.) 28. posvetovanje Medicina, pravo in družba: Globalizacija medicine v 21. stoletju, Maribor, Univerza v Mariboru, Pravna fakulteta
    Year:
    2019
    Page numbers:
    pp. 289-309

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