Résolution CM/ResDH(2012)50[1]
Exécution de l’arrêt de la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme
E.S. et autres contre République slovaque
Le Comité des Ministres, en vertu de l’article 46, paragraphe 2, de la Convention de sauvegarde des droits de l’homme et des libertés fondamentales, qui prévoit qu’il surveille l’exécution des arrêts définitifs de la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme (ci-après nommées « la Convention » et « la Cour »)[2],
Vu l’arrêt ci-dessous, qui a été transmis par la Cour au Comité une fois qu’il est devenu définitif ;
Nom de l’affaire (réf. requête)
Arrêt du
Définitif le
E.S. et autres (8227/04)
15/09/2009
15/12/2009
Rappelant que les constats de violation faits par la Cour exigent, outre le paiement de la satisfaction équitable octroyée dans les arrêts, l’adoption par l’Etat défendeur, si nécessaire, de mesures individuelles mettant fin aux violations et effaçant autant que possible les conséquences de celles-ci pour le requérant, et de mesures générales permettant de prévenir des violations semblables ;
Ayant invité les autorités de l’Etat défendeur à fournir un plan d’action concernant les mesures proposées pour exécuter l’arrêt;
Ayant examiné, conformément aux Règles du Comité pour l’application de l’article 46, paragraphe 2, de la Convention, le bilan d’action fourni par le gouvernement (voir le bilan d’action, document
DH-DD(2012)129E)[3] ;
Ayant noté que l’Etat défendeur a versé à la partie requérante la satisfaction équitable prévue dans l’arrêt ;
DECLARE qu’il a rempli ses fonctions en vertu de l’article 46, paragraphe 2, de la Convention dans cette affaire et
DECIDE d’en clore l’examen.
ACTION REPORT
App. No. 8227104
E. S. and others v. Slovakia, judgment of 15/09/2009, final on 15/12/2009
Introductory case summary
This case concerns a failure of the domestic authorities to take appropriate measures in 2001 to protect the applicants from ill-treatment (physical and sexual abuse) inflicted by theirs husband and father, and a corresponding failure to meet the positive obligation to respect their family and private life (violation of Articles 3 and 8).
I. Payment of just satisfaction and individual measures
a) Details of just satisfaction
Pecuniary damage
Non-pecuniary damage
Cost and expenses
Total
8 000 euros
2 000 euros
10 000 euros
Paid on 28/01/2010
b) Individual measures
The applicants received just satisfaction for non-pecuniary damages. If similar problems with the first applicant’s husband arise again, the applicants can benefit from the changes to the law described under the general measures. No other individual measures seem to be necessary.
II. General measures
a) Legislation
The legislative changes were made before the judgment of the European Court has been adopted. The recent law of the Slovak Republic meets the requirements of the European Convention. As of 1 January 2003 the court may, under Section 76 § 1(g) of the Code of Civil Procedure, through an interim measure impose upon the party not to enter temporarily a house or an apartment occupied by a close person or person in his/her care or education in relation to whom there are reasons for he/she being suspected of violence. As of 1 January 2003, under Section 705a of the Civil Code, if a further cohabitation is unsupportable due to the physical or mental violence or threats of such violence from a husband or former husband, which is the joint user of an apartment, or from a close person jointly using an apartment, based on a motion of one of a married couple or former married couple the court can limit a right of use of the other of a married couple or former married couple or exclude her/him totally from the right of use of an apartment. Under Section 712a § 8 in fine of the Civil Code, if a former husband, during the marriage or after the divorce of the marriage committed the psychical or mental violence against the other from a married couple or against the close person living with him in an apartment, the court shall decide that he is not entitled to a substitute dwelling. Under the new legislation interim measures are available to ensure that the authorities would be able to act quickly. Therefore, there is no need to adopt legislative changes or other measures
b) Publication and dissemination
The judgment was published in the Judicial Revue (Justidne Revue) No. 12/2009, the juridical journal distributed to ail courts in the Slovak Republic and available also for subscribers.
III. Conclusions of the respondent state
The Government consider that the measures adopted have fully remedied the consequences for the applicants of the violation of the Convention found by the European Court in this case, that these measures will prevent similar violations and that the Slovak Republic has thus complied with its obligations under Article 46 § 1 of the Convention.
In Bratislava. 1 February 2012
Marica Pirošíková
Agent of the Government of the Slovak Republic before the European Court of Human Rights
[1] Adoptée par le Comité des Ministres le 8 mars 2012 lors de la 1136e réunion des Délégués des Ministres.
[2] voir aussi les recommandations adoptées par le Comité des Ministres dans le cadre de la supervision des arrêts de la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme, et en particulier la Recommandation Rec(2004)6 du Comité des Ministres aux Etats membres sur l'amélioration des recours internes.
[3] Document en anglais uniquement
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