6 Nations Convention against Torture and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 9. 17. With the persistence of the inadequacy and the insufficiencies of the present system of reservations, it is not at all surprising that, firstly, the criticisms and manifestations of dissatisfaction in this respect are multiplied in contemporary doctrine 10, and secondly, the human rights international supervisory organs begin to disclose their willingness to assert their competence to apply the criterion of the compatibility (supra) and contribute to secure, in this way, the integrity of the respective human rights treaties. At regional level, in its well-known judgment in the Belilos versus Switzerland case (1988), locus classicus on the issue, the European Court of Human Rights considered the declaration amounting to a reservation (of a general character) of Switzerland to the European Convention on Human Rights incompatible with the object and purpose of this latter (in the light of its Article 64). In its turn, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, in its second and third Advisory Opinions 11, pointed out the difficulties of a pure and simple transposition from the system of reservations of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties of 1969 into the domain of the international protection of human rights. 9. For a study of the problems created by the reservations to these four human rights treaties of the United Nations, cf. L. Lijnzaad, Reservations to U.N. Human Rights Treaties Ratify and Ruin?, Dordrecht, Nijhoff, 1995, pp. 131-424. 10. Cf. D. Shelton, "State Practice on Reservations to Human Rights Treaties", 1 Canadian Human Rights Yearbook/Annuaire canadien des droits de la personne (1983) pp. 205-234; C. Redgwell, "Universality or Integrity? Some Reflections on Reservations to General Multilateral Treaties", 64 British Year Book of International Law (1993) pp. 245-282; L. Lijnzaad, op. cit. supra n. (9), pp. 3-424; M. Coccia, "Reservations to Multilateral Treaties on Human Rights", 15 California Western International Law Journal (1985) pp. 1-49; G. Cohen-Jonathan, "Conclusions générales - La protection des droits de l'homme et l'évolution du Droit international", Société Française pour le Droit International, Colloque de Strasbourg - La protection des droits de l'homme et l'évolution du Droit international, Paris, Pédone, 1998, pp. 322-326; P. van Dijk, "The Law of Human Rights in Europe - Instruments and Procedures for a Uniform Implementation", VI-2 Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law / Recueil des Cours de l'Académie de Droit Européen - Firenze (1995) pp. 58-60 and 64; B. Clark, "The Vienna Convention Reservations Regime and the Convention on Discrimination against Women", 85 American Journal of International Law (1991) pp. 281-321; W.A. Schabas, "Reservations to the Convention on the Rights of the Child", 18 Human Rights Quarterly (1996) pp. 472-491; L. Sucharipa-Behrmann, "The Legal Effects of Reservations to Multilateral Treaties", 1 Austrian Review of International and European Law (1996) pp. 67-88; E.F. Sherman Jr., "The U.S. Death Penalty Reservation to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Exposing the Limitations of the Flexible System Governing Treaty Formation", 29 Texas International Law Journal (1994) pp. 69-93; A. Sanchez Legido, "Algunas Consideraciones sobre la Validez de las Reservas al Convenio Europeo de Derechos Humanos", 20 Revista Jurídica de Castilla-La Mancha (1994) pp. 207-230; C. Pilloud, "Reservations to the Geneva Conventions of 1949", International Review of the Red Cross (March/April 1976) pp. 3-44. 11. In its third Advisory Opinion on Restrictions to the Death Penalty (1983) the Court warned that the question of reciprocity as related to reservations did not fully apply vis-à-vis human rights treaties (paragraphs 62-63 and 65). Earlier, in its second Advisory Opinion on the Effect of Reservations on the Entry into Force of the American Convention (1982), the Court dismissed the postponement of the entry into force of the American Convention by application of Article 20(4) of the 1969 Vienna Convention (paragraph 34).