Decisions on limiting a political party’s activities or on their dissolution do not concern civil rights in the sense of Article 6 ECHR. However, both in the case-law of the ECtHR and in Venice Commission standards and Opinions, the importance of procedural guarantees, both ex ante and ex post, has been repeatedly stressed. According to the case-law of the Court, Article 3 of Protocol 1 contains certain positive obligations of a procedural character, in particular requiring the existence of a domestic system for the effective examination of individual complaints and appeals in matters concerning electoral rights. The existence of such a system is one of the essential guarantees of elections run in conformity with international standards.