Committee on Petitions of the European Parliament : "..A very brief acknowledgement did come by from the European Commission: ..The main point, in English, is that the EU, through the European Commission as the "Guardian" of the Treaty has no enforcement power over Member-States for the ratification of those protocols. Furthermore, some of the rights thereby contained are already in the Charter of Fundamental Rights, therefore covered .... but, and this is where a lot of jurisprudence is going into, the Charter only applies when a Member-State is implementing EU-legislation. The European Parliament, it is not a pice of news, sees things slightly differently and the PETI-promoted Hearing on Fundamental Rights of September 2011 fully confirms it. However, before things will change there will need to be more comprehensive discussions. 3 .10. 2013 but compare http://www.astra.org.pl/pdf/publications/protocol.pdf ; http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Handbook_non_discri_law_ENG_01.pdf