For a more effective operation of the European Court of Human Rights, this Protocol makes the following main changes to the Convention: Clearly inadmissible cases: inadmissibility decisions in these cases will be taken by a single judge, assisted by non-judicial reporters; Repetitive cases: where the case is one of a series deriving from the same structural defect at national level, the proposal is that it may be declared admissible and decided by a committee of three judges under a simplified summary procedure; New admissibility criterion: with a view to allowing the Court a greater degree of flexibility, a new admissibility condition is foreseen (in addition to existing conditions such as exhaustion of domestic remedies, six-month time-limit). Other measures in the Protocol include changing the judges' term of office from the present six year renewable term to a single, nine year term and a provision in view of possible accession by the European Union to the Convention.--Publisher's description.