ETS NO. 46
Concluded: 16 September 1963
In force: 2 May 1968
ARTICLE 1 PROHIBITION OF IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT 151
ARTICLE 2 FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT 151
ARTICLE 3 PROHIBITION OF EXPULSION OF NATIONALS 152
ARTICLE 4 PROHIBITION OF COLLECTIVE EXPULSION OF ALIENS 152
ARTICLE 5 TERRITORIAL APPLICATION 152
ARTICLE 6 RELATIONSHIP TO THE CONVENTION 152
ARTICLE 7 SIGNATURE AND RATIFICATION 152
The governments signatory hereto, being members of the Council of Europe,
Being resolved to take steps to ensure the collective enforcement of certain rights and freedoms other than those already included in Section 1 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms signed at Rome on 4th November 1950 (hereinafter referred to as the “Convention”) and in Articles 1 to 3 of the First Protocol to the Convention, signed at Paris on 20th March 1952,
Have agreed as follows:
Article 1 Prohibition of imprisonment for debt
No one shall be deprived of his liberty merely on the ground of inability to fulfil a contractual obligation.
Article 2 Freedom of movement
1. Everyone lawfully within the territory of a State shall, within that territory, have the right to liberty of movement and freedom to choose his residence.
2. Everyone shall be free to leave any country, including his own.
3. No restrictions shall be placed on the exercise of these rights other than such as are in accordance with law and are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security or public safety, for the maintenance of ordre public, for the prevention of crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.
4. The rights set forth in paragraph 1 may also be subject, in particular areas, to restrictions imposed in accordance with law and justified by the public interest in a democratic society.
Article 3 Prohibition of expulsion of nationals
1. No one shall be expelled, by means either of an individual or of a collective measure, from the territory of the State of which he is a national.
2. No one shall be deprived of the right to enter the territory of the state of which he is a national.
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