The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms is an international agreement to which the Member States of the Council of Europe undertake to ensure the protection of fundamental civil and political rights and freedoms. Adopted on 04th November 1950 in Rome and came into force on 4 September 1953, and has been ratified by ten of the original Member States. (Denmark, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Germany and the United Kingdom). Therefore we can say that the European Convention one of the first fruits of the European integration process whose beginnings were directly behind the end of the Second World War, and was adopted as part of the newly established international organization - the Council of Europe. The European Convention is the product of aspirations for the establishment of a common value system at European level and as a basis for future European unity, further sought to give practical meaning to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations, adopted in 1948. The European Convention together with the protocols, as ratified and published international agreement, in accordance with Article 141, representing part of the internal legal order and the legal force immediately above the law. For the Republic of Croatia is binding from 05 November 1997 g., The adoption of the Law on Ratification of the European Convention. In Croatia, the European Convention is applied directly which allows customers to make their claims before the domestic courts based on the European Convention and to refer to the provisions of the European Convention, it is an immediate application of the European Convention imposes an obligation on the courts that domestic law be interpreted in accordance with the commitments of the European Convention. European Convention provided for a mechanism to protect human rights or individual submitting the application to the European Court of Human Rights, pursuant to which, under the conditions provided by the European Convention, the European Court considered that the respondent State is to ensure the observance of the rights guaranteed by the European Convention on the national level. Thus, the European Court of Human Rights represents the subsidiary protection mechanism which means that the national authorities are primarily asked to ensure the rights and freedoms under the European Convention and to prevent their violation.