The European social charter - initial and revised version: state and prospects

The full realization of civil and political rights is impossible without performing the economic, social and cultural rights. Despite of the evidence of the indivisibility of fundamental rights and freedoms of a person, confirmed by the UN and by numerous international documents on human rights accepted at the universal level, the difference in the positions of states in the issue of the juridical validity of economic, social and cultural human rights is preserved till today. The article reveals the difficult in the procedural context order of obligations adoption by Member-States of the European Council within the 1961 European Social Charter and the 1996 Revised European Social Charter on economic, social and cultural rights as well as the complex control system for their implementation by the European Committee of Social Rights. The article reveals week and strong points of these two international legal acts, which are now in transition stage to one single act - the 1996 Revised European Social Charter.