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2025

NHRI Accreditation Status and Mandates – 2025 update

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5. Involvement in the national legislation through ex ante and ex post human rights impact assessment

This update includes information regarding NHRIs’ involvement in national legislation. The involvement of NHRIs in national legislation is particularly relevant for their role in national checks and balances. The European Commission highlighted the significance of this in its 2024 Rule of Law Report. This involvement can take various forms and may occur at different stages (ex ante or ex post). Therefore, NHRIs were asked about their contributions to human rights impact assessments of different legislative options, the legal scrutiny of concrete legislative drafts and evaluations of the implementation of adopted legislation.

Of the 34 answers received, 26 NHRIs were, at some point of the legislative and decision-making process, involved in advising on national legislation. 16 NHRIs were involved at all stages: human rights impact assessment, legal scrutiny and evaluation of adopted laws. Table 7 gives an overview of the involvement of NHRIs in the legislative process.

Table 7 – NHRIs involved in national legislation: type of contribution in 2024

NHRI (or nearest equivalent)

Human rights impact assessment of different legislative options in the legislative process

Legal scrutiny of concrete legislative drafts

Evaluations of the implementation of adopted legislation

Austrian Ombudsman Board

Yes

Yes

Yes

Federal Human Rights Institute Belgium

Yes

Yes

Yes

Interfederal Equal Opportunities Centre Unia (Belgium)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Commission for Protection against Discrimination (Bulgaria)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Ombudsman of the Republic of Bulgaria

Yes

 

Yes

Ombudswoman of the Republic of Croatia

 

Yes

Yes

Commissioner for Administration and the Protection of Human Rights (Cyprus)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Public Defender of Rights (Czechia)

 

Yes

 

Danish Institute for Human Rights

Yes

Yes

Yes

Chancellor of Justice (Estonia)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Finnish Human Rights Centre

 

Yes

 

Parliamentary Ombudsman of Finland

Yes

Yes

Yes

National Consultative Commission on Human Rights (France)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Commissioner for Fundamental Rights (Hungary)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission

 

Yes

Yes

National Guarantor for the Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty (Italy)

 

Yes

Yes

Ombudsman’s Office of the Republic of Latvia

Yes

Yes

Yes

The Seimas Ombudsperson’s Office (Lithuania)

Yes

Yes

 

Netherlands Institute for Human Rights

Yes

Yes

 

Commissioner for Human Rights (Poland)

 

Yes

Yes

People’s Advocate (Romania)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Slovak National Centre for Human Rights

Yes

Yes

Yes

Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia

Yes

Yes

Yes

Swedish Institute for Human Rights

Yes

Yes

Yes

People’s Advocate of the Republic of Albania

 

Yes

Yes

Yes

The Ombudsman of the Republic of North Macedonia

Yes

Yes

Yes

Source: FRA, December 2024.