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.
Access the Charter in International Sign Language
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.
OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS
- Annual report by the European Commission on the application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (2010 onwards)
- Strategy to strengthen the application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the EU
- Commission notice - Guidance on ensuring the respect for the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union when implementing the European Structural and Investment Funds (‘ESI Funds’)
- Council Conclusions on the Charter of Fundamental Rights after 10 Years: State of Play and Future Work, 20.9.2019
- European Parliament resolution of 12 February 2019 on the implementation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union in the EU institutional framework (2017/2089(INI))
- How to better implement the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights - Selected Quotes from European Parliament and Council Conclusions 2010 - 2020
ARTICLE-BY-ARTICLE COMMENTARIES ON THE CHARTER
- Bifulco, R., Cartabia, M. and Celotto, A. (2001), L’Europa dei diritti: Commento alla Carta dei diritti fondamentali dell’Unione Europea, il Mulino, Bologna.
- Coghian N. Steiert M. (eds.) (2020), The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union: the travaux préparatoires and selected documents
- Holoubek, M. and Lienbacher, G. (eds.) (2019), Commentary on the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (GRC-Kommentar), 2nd edition, Manz, Vienna;
- Kellerbauer, M., Klamert, M. and Tomkin J. (eds.) (2019), Commentary on the EU Treaties and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
- Mangas Martin, A. (2008), Carta de los derechos fundamentales de la Unión Europea: Comentario, artículo por artículo, Fundacion BBVA, Bilbao.
- Mastroianni, R., Allegrezza, S., Razzolini, O., Pollicino, O. and Pappalardo, F. (eds.) (2017), Carta dei diritti fondamentali dell’Unione Europea, Giuffrè, Milano;
- Meyer, J. and Hölscheidt, S. (eds.) (2019), Charta der Grundrechte der Europäischen Union: Kommentar, (Commentary on the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union) 5th edition.
- Peers, S., Hervey, T., Kenner, J. and Ward, A. (scheduled for 2021), The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights: A commentary, 2nd edition, CH Beck Hart Nomos, Oxford;
- Picod, F., Rizcallah, C. and Van Drooghenbroeck, S. (2020), Charte des droits fondamentaux de l’Union européenne: Commentaire article par article (Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union: Commentary article-byarticle), Bruylant, Bruxelles.
- Sachpekidou E., Tagaras Ch., Kanellopoulou-Malouchou N., Karagiannis V., Lentzis D., Marouda M.-N., Sarmas D., Takis A., Tsolka O., (2020), Κατ’ άρθρο ερμηνεία του Χάρτη των Θεμελιωδών Δικαιωμάτων της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης (Article-By-Article Commentary Of The Eu Charter Of Fundamental Rights ), Nomiki Bibliothiki, 752 p.
- Toggenburg G. (2019 - 2021), All EU-r rights, Online series published in the EURAC Research in English, Blog (and partly available also in Italian on Lo Spiegone)
OTHER DOCUMENTS, SOURCES AND TOOLS (mostly from projects co-funded by the EU)
- Case-law by the Court of Justice of the European Union on the principle of ne bis in idem in criminal matters. Eurojust February 2024
- European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) judicial publications
The European Union Agency for Asylum produces a range of judicial publications specifically tailored to the needs of members of courts and tribunals competent in asylum matters. These publications comprise judicial analyses, judicial trainers’ guidance notes and compilations of jurisprudence. All materials are developed in English and are translated in several languages. - ACTIONES (Active Charter Training through Interaction Of National Experiences) was an EU-funded project focused on the vertical and horizontal interaction between courts. It resulted in four handbooks on techniques of judicial interactions in the application of the Charter.
- The Charter in action: an EU-funded project that resulted in a best practices handbook for Charter trainings and a training manual;
- Charterclick was an EU-funded project that resulted in a Charter tutorial and an interactive checklist both designed to make understand whether the Charter applies to a given case. Both tools are available on the e-justice platform of the European Commission.
- European Judicial Training Network (ETJN) database lists all available face-to-face judicial training opportunities.
- Council of Europe HELP training platform provides a range of resources on the ECHR. These include distance-learning and self-learning resources on the ECHR and European human rights standards, as well as handbooks and other useful resources.
- Council of Europe HELP: Introduction to Human Rights Protection in Europe - Interplay between the ECHR and the EU Charter
- Judging the Charter: an EU-funded project which resulted in a set of training events, a manual on the role of the Charter in asylum cases and a Charter website that brings together a large amount of Charter-related information, including exercises and training materials, case law and a selection of relevant EU legislation;
- Library of Charter-specific training materials put together by the European Law Academy in Trier which offers a wide spectrum of trainings on the Charter
- Making the Charter of Fundamental Rights a living instrument: an EU-funded project that resulted in a user-friendly Manual on the Charter and Guidelines for civil society actors on how to best use the Charter;
- Making the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights a reality for all - 12 November 2019 - Conference material
NB: The above links are provided for information purposes only. The FRA bears no responsibility for the accuracy, legality or content of external websites and links.
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- Il principio di attribuzione e l'applicabilita'della carta dei diritti fondamentali: l'orientamento della giurisprudenzaTranslated Title:The Principle of Conferral and the Applicability of the Charter of Fundamental Rights: The Approach Taken by Judicial DecisionsPublished in: Rivista di diritto internazionale, 2015Year:2015Page numbers:pp 49-78
- Charte des droits fondamentaux et principes généraux du droitTranslated Title:Charter of fundamental rights and general principles of lawPublished in: Revue des droits et libertés fondamentaux, 2015Year:2015
- Charter of fundamental rights of the European Union – legal decisional document in justice and administrationPublished in: Journal of Law and Administrative Sciences, Special Issue, 2015Year:2015Page numbers:p 545
- H εφαρμογή της αρχής ne bis in idem στην περίπτωση σωρευτικής επιβολής διοικητικών κυρώσεων- Με αφορμή την απόφαση ΣτΕ 1091/2015Translated Title:The application of the ne bis in idem principle in the case of cumulative imposition of administrative sanctions – on the occasion of judgement 1091/2015 of the Council of StatePublished in: θεωρια & πραξη διοικητικου δικαιου (Theory & Practice of Administrative Law), 2015Year:2015Page numbers:pp 524-532
- Fundamental Rights Review of National Measures: Nothing New under the Charter?Published in: European Public Law, 2015Year:2015Page numbers:pp 285-308
- Vereinigt die Grundrechte!Translated Title:Unify the Fundamental Rights!Published in: JuristenZeitung, 2015Year:2015Page numbers:pp 53-63
- La constitucionalización del derecho a una buena administración en la Unión Europea: ¿nuevas garantías para la protección de los derechos en el procedimiento administrativo?Translated Title:The constitutionalisation of the right to good administration in European Union: new guarantees for the rights´ protection in the administrative procedure?Published in: Revista de Derecho de la Unión Europea, 2015Year:2015Page numbers:pp 321-340
- Karta Praw Podstawowych Unii Europejskiej w polskim sądownictwie – problemy i wyzwaniaTranslated Title:European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights in the Polish judiciary – problems and challengesPublished in: Krajowa Rada Sądownictwa, 2015Year:2015Page numbers:pp 17-23
- La Charte des droits fondamentaux et l’équilibre constitutionnel entre l’Union Européenne et les Etats membresTranslated Title:The Charter of Fundamental Rights and the constitutional balance between the European Union and the Member StatesYear:2015
- The place of the EU Charter within the tradition of fundamental and human rightsPublished in: in: S. Morano-Foadi and L. Vickers (eds), Fundamental rights in the EUPublisher:HartYear:2015Page numbers:pp 11-20
- L’article 16 de la Charte des droits fondamentaux de l’Union: une nouvelle verdeur pour la liberté d’entreprendre?Translated Title:Article 16 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the Union: a new vigour for free enterprise?Published in: in: Léonard, T. (eds.), Actualités en droit économique. La liberté d’entreprendre ou le retour en force d’un fondamental du droit économiquePublisher:BruylantYear:2015
- L'effet horizontal de la Charte des droits fondamentaux de l'Union européenneTranslated Title:The horizontal effect of the Charter of fundamental rights of the European Union’Publisher:Université Paris IIYear:2015
- Strukturfragen des Grundrechtsschutzes in Europa: Grundrechtecharta - Grundrechtsbindung - Vertrauensschutz. Dokumentation des 6. Treffens des Gesprächskreises für Öffentliches RechtTranslated Title:Questions on the fundamental rights structure in Europe: the Charter of Fundamental Rights, being bound by fundamental rights and the protection of expectationsPublisher:Mohr SiebeckYear:2015
- Listina EU o temeljnih pravicah v slovenskem pravnem reduTranslated Title:The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU in the Slovenian Legal OrderPublisher:Fakulteta za državne in evropske študijeYear:2015
- Kollektive soziale Rechte unter dem Druck der Währungsunion: Schutz durch Art. 28 EU-Grundrechtecharta?Translated Title:Collective social rights under the pressure of the monetary union: protection under Article 28 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights?Published in: HSI-Schriftenreihe 13Publisher:Bund-Verlag,Year:2015
- Ο Χάρτης Θεμελιωδών Δικαιωμάτων της ΕΕ. Ερμηνεία κατ’ άρθροTranslated Title:The European Charter of Fundamental Rights. A CommentaryPublisher:Νομική ΒιβλιοθήκηYear:2015
- Horizontal effect of fundamental rights contributing to the ‘primacy, unity and effectiveness of European Union lawPublisher:University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law, European LawYear:2015
- The Consequences of the “Constitutionalization” of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European UnionPublished in: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 149Publisher:Elsevier Ltd.Year:2014
- La charte des droits fondamentaux de l'Union européenne : mode d'emploiTranslated Title:The Charter of fundamental rights of the European Union: user guidePublished in: Le Petit juriste 15Year:2014
- Bulgaria, Народно събрание на Република България (2014), Стенограма на сто и второ заседание на 42-то Народно събраниеPublished in: Стенограми от пленарни заседания СТО И ВТОРО ЗАСЕДАНИЕYear:2014