FIRST SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 11193/21
Gyöngyvér ANTALNÉ BOTÁR and Others
against Hungary
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 19 May 2022 as a Committee composed of:
Alena Poláčková, President,
Raffaele Sabato,
Davor Derenčinović, judges,
and Attila Teplán, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,
Having regard to the above application lodged on 29 January 2021,
Having regard to the formal declarations accepting a friendly settlement of the case,
Having regard to the letter of the applicants’ representative dated 30 March 2022;
Having deliberated, decides as follows:
FACTS AND PROCEDURE
The list of applicants is set out in the appended table.
The applicants’ complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention concerning the excessive length of civil proceedings were communicated to the Hungarian Government (“the Government”). Complaints based on the same facts were also communicated under other provisions of the Convention.
On 30 March 2022 the applicants’ representative informed the Court that Margit Bábelné Dálnoki, Ferenc Barna, Lajos Honyák, István Kővári, Anna Méhészné Kis, Henrikné Morvay and András Valaska withdrew their complaints.
In regard to the remaining applicants, the Court received the friendly‑settlement declaration, signed by the parties, under which those applicants agreed to waive any further claims against Hungary in respect of the facts giving rise to this application, subject to an undertaking by the Government to pay them the amount detailed in the appended table. This amount will be converted into the currency of the respondent State at the rate applicable on the date of payment, and will be payable within three months from the date of notification of the Court’s decision. In the event of failure to pay this amount within the above-mentioned three-month period, the Government undertake to pay simple interest on it, from the expiry of that period until settlement, at a rate equal to the marginal lending rate of the European Central Bank during the default period plus three percentage points.
The payment will constitute the final resolution of the case.
THE LAW
In the light of the foregoing, the Court concludes that the applicants Margit Bábelné Dálnoki, Ferenc Barna, Lajos Honyák, István Kővári, Anna Méhészné Kis, Henrikné Morvay and András Valaska may be regarded as no longer wishing to pursue the application (Article 37 § 1 (a) of the Convention). Furthermore, in accordance with Article 37 § 1 in fine, the Court finds no special circumstances regarding respect for human rights as defined in the Convention and the Protocols thereto which require the continued examination of the application in their regard.
Moreover, the Court takes note of the friendly settlement reached between the Government and the remaining applicants. It is satisfied that the settlement is based on respect for human rights as defined in the Convention and the Protocols thereto and finds no reasons to justify a continued examination of these complaints.
In view of the above, it is appropriate to strike the case out of the list.
For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,
Decides to strike the application out of its list of cases in accordance with Article 37 § 1 (a) of the Convention in regard to the applicants Margit Bábelné Dálnoki, Ferenc Barna, Lajos Honyák, István Kővári, Anna Méhészné Kis, Henrikné Morvay and András Valaska;
Decides to strike the application out of its list of cases in regard to the remaining applicants in accordance with Article 39 of the Convention.
Done in English and notified in writing on 9 June 2022.
Attila Teplán Alena Poláčková
Acting Deputy Registrar President
APPENDIX
Application raising complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention
(excessive length of civil proceedings)
Application no.
Date of introduction
Applicant’s name
Year of birth
Representative’s name and location
Other complaints under well-established case-law
Date of receipt of Government’s declaration
Date of receipt of Applicant’s declaration
Amount awarded for pecuniary and non‑pecuniary damage and costs and expenses
per applicant/household
(in euros)[1]
11193/21
29/01/2021
(64 applicants)
Gyöngyvér ANTALNÉ BOTÁR
1949
Andrea BODOR
1976
Gábor Csaba BODOR
1979
István CSEKE
1962
Lajos DOMBI
1943
János ENDRÉSZ
1955
Andrásné FEKETE
1954
Péter FLÓDUNG
1946
József FŐBUSZ
1938
Attila GÁL
1949
Jenő GÁL
1953
Mihály GÉRCZEI
1948
Árpád István GULYÁS
1948
István HALÁSZ
1959
Gyula HÁZI
1929
Józsefné HORVÁTH
1944
Lajosné KARDOS
1938
József KASZONYI
1941
Mária KELLÓNÉ MAJOR
1946
Pál KÉRI
1950
Sándor KERTÉSZ
1952
Dóra Veronika KOVÁCS
1972
Miklós LUKÁCS
1955
László MIKÓ
1952
János NÉMETH
1960
László NÉMETH
1957
Mihály OBBÁGY
1958
Ottó PÁMER
1944
Józsefné PAPP
1936
Sándor PAPP
1965
Klára PÁSZTORNÉ MÁLNÁSI
1967
Miklósné PATAKI
1945
János PÉCZI
1949
Csaba PONGRÁCZ
1964
György RÖVID
1966
István SÁNKA
1956
Ferenc STEFANITS
1959
Nándor SÜLE
1956
Albertné SZABÓ
1935
András SZABÓ
1957
Ferenc SZABÓ
1944
József SZAKÁCS
1940
Károly SZAMOSFALVI
1953
József SZEMŐK[1]
1931
Szilárd SZEMŐK[2]
1959
Dezső SZIKRA
1945
Vincéné TAKÁCS
1952
Zsuzsanna TENDLINÉ CSEKE
1967
Árpád TÓTH
1955
Péter TRÁBERT
1953
Rudolf TURZA
1956
Judit UDVARDINÉ DR. ERDŐS
1950
Józsefné VÍGH
1937
Ferenc Péter VODNYÁNSZKY
1944
Endre Ádám ZELENYÁNSZKI
1943
Household
Endre József SZELE
1949
Endréné SZELE
1953
Applicants who withdrew their complaints:
Margit BÁBELNÉ DÁLNOKI
1958
Ferenc BARNA
1956
Lajos HONYÁK
1963
István KŐVÁRI
1959
Anna MÉHÉSZNÉ KIS
1959
Henrikné MORVAY
1959
András VALASKA
1945
Bartos Ernő
Biatorbágy
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings
05/04/2022
06/04/2022
9,100
9,100
No award.
[1] Died on 24/08/2021. His heir is Szilárd Szemők.
[2] He is applicant in his own right and also as the heir of József Szemők.
[1] Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.