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Judicial protection has been particularly challenged in the context of the CFSP. It has been expected that the upcoming accession of the EU to the ECHR will provide solutions concerning the existing limited judicial review of the CJEU over CFSP matters. In its recent Opinion 2/13, the CJEU concluded that the draft Accession Agreement was not compatible with the EU Treaties. This dissertation aims at understanding the concrete impact the future accession of the EU to the ECHR will have on the judicial protection of individuals and legal persons in the context of the CFSP. In order to address the problématique at hand an extensive study of the relevant literature, legislation and case-law was produced. This thesis wishes, first, to analyse the status quo of the judicial protection in the CFSP within the EU's legal order. Second, it aims at introducing the main challenges posed to the accession by Opinion 2/13 and the ways forward it. Throughout this dissertation I provide arguments to sustain several findings. Firstly, the CFSP occupies a special position within the EU's legal order. That fact is reflected in the actors involved in the CFSP procedures and in the acts adopted therein. Secondly, as the law stands, due to the limited jurisdiction over the CFSP, certain acts adopted within that policy field escape the control of the EU Courts. Indeed, despite certain exceptions introduced in the Treaty of Lisbon, the jurisdiction of the CJEU over the CFSP has remained limited. The Treaty of Lisbon has also introduced the duty of accession of the EU to the ECHR. Nonetheless, Opinion 2/13 postponed the accession and with it the expectable judicial scrutiny to be exercised by the ECtHR over those same CFSP acts. The main conclusion drawn from this research was that the current judicial protection offered in the CFSP is insufficient in accordance to the principle of the rule of law in the EU's legal order and the human rights' standards of the ECHR. This research argues for a continuity of the negotiations in order to make the accession possible. In order to overcome the recent Opinion 2/13, not only the EU institutions have to amend the Accession Agreement but also the EU Member States should proceed with the revision of the Treaties and provide the CJEU will full jurisdiction over all CFSP matters.