Abstract
This paper aims to analyse and assess the draft agreement on the European Union’s (EU) accession to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The first part discusses the effects which accession will have on the system of human rights protection under the ECHR focusing on the most relevant features of the accession agreement, such as the co-respondent mechanism and the prior involvement of the ECJ. The second part explores the future status of the ECHR in the EU’s legal order.