V. JURISDICTION OF THE COURT 42.According to Rule 39(1) of the Rules, the Court shall conduct a preliminary examination of its jurisdiction; and shall, in that regard, satisfy itself that it, successively, has personal, material, temporal and territorial jurisdiction to hear the case. a) Personal jurisdiction 43. The Protocol provides that the State against which an action has been instituted must not only be a Party to the Protocol, but also, with respect to cases instituted by individuals or NGOs, it must have made and deposited the declaration accepting the jurisdiction of the Court to receive such cases under Article 34(6) of the Protocol read together with Article 5(3) thereof. 44.1n the instant case, the Court has noted that the Respondent State became a Party to the Protocol on 25 January 2004 and deposited the declaration contemplated under Article 34(6) of the Protocol on 23 July 2013. The Court therefore has jurisdiction to hear the instant case in respect of the Respondent State. 45. Regarding the Applicant, the Court observes that the Application was filed on behalf of an lvorian Non-Governmental Organization, APDH, which has Observer Status before the Commission. 46.1t follows from the foregoing that the Court's personal jurisdiction in the instant case, with respect to both the Respondent and the Applicant, has been established. 12