Instituţiile Uniunii, asemenea celor ale statelor membre ale Consiliului Europei, vor fi astfel supuse controlului extern şi independent al Curţii de la Strasbourg, conform formulei „un standard unic în materie de drepturile omului, o singură Curte ”.
The EU ’ s institutions, as well as those of the Member States of the Council of Europe, will therefore be subject to external, independent control by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, based on the statement: ‘ a single standard in human rights, a single Court ’.