The first application lodged under the Convention system was a German case that gave rise to the first decision in the history of the Convention: X v. Germany. This first decision was delivered 65 years ago, on 23 September 1955, by the European Commission of Human Rights, the filtering body in the original system set up by the Convention.

To date, some 973,000 applications have been allocated to a judicial formation.

1st Decision

European Commission