SECOND SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 41561/16
Zoran BRKOVIĆ and Others against Serbia
and 17 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (Second Section), sitting on 15 October 2020 as a Committee composed of:
Carlo Ranzoni, President,
Branko Lubarda,
Pauliine Koskelo, judges,
and Liv Tigerstedt, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,
Having regard to the above applications lodged on the various dates indicated in the appended table,
Having regard to the formal declarations accepting a friendly settlement of the cases,
Having deliberated, decides as follows:
FACTS AND PROCEDURE
The list of applicants and their representatives is set out in the appended table.
The applicants’ complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention concerning the excessive length of civil and/or administrative proceedings were communicated to the Serbian Government (“the Government”).
The Court received the friendly-settlement declarations under which the applicants agreed to waive any further claims against Serbia in respect of the facts giving rise to these applications, subject to an undertaking by the Government to pay them the amounts detailed in the appended table. These amounts 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 these amounts within the above-mentioned three-month period, the Government undertake to pay simple interest on them, 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 cases.
THE LAW
Having regard to the similar subject matter of the applications, the Court finds it appropriate to examine them jointly in a single decision.
The Court takes note of the friendly settlement reached between the parties. 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 the applications.
In view of the above, it is appropriate to strike the cases out of the list.
For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,
Decides to join the applications;
Decides to strike the applications out of its list of cases in accordance with Article 39 of the Convention.
Done in English and notified in writing on 5 November 2020.
Liv TigerstedtCarlo Ranzoni
Acting Deputy RegistrarPresident
APPENDIX
List of applications raising complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention
(excessive length of civil and/or administrative proceedings)
No.
Application no.
Date of introduction
Applicant’s name
Date of birth
Representative’s name and location
Date of receipt of Government’s declaration
Date of receipt of Applicant’s declaration
Amount awarded for non-pecuniary damage
per applicant / household
(in euros)[1] 2
Amount awarded for costs and expenses per application
(in euros)3
41561/16
12/07/2016
(3 applicants)
Zoran BRKOVIĆ
01/01/1969
Household
Biljana STEVANOVIĆ
30/04/1982
Nikola VITKOVIĆ
11/01/2004
Glavonjić Radenko
Čačak
09/06/2020
24/02/2020
1,700
250
20774/17
08/03/2017
Miroslav BRANKOVIĆ
26/06/1962
Lekić Ružica
Požarevac
21/05/2020
10/06/2020
600
250
29812/17
11/04/2017
Tomislav PREDOJEVIĆ
04/09/1954
Uljarević Luka
Kragujevac
09/06/2020
13/03/2020
2,400
250
51596/17
10/07/2017
Jovan BESARIĆ
11/12/1943
-
09/06/2020
10/07/2020
1,700
-
75549/17
19/10/2017
Mihajlo TRIFUNOVIĆ
05/08/1947
Damjanović Veselin
Beograd
09/06/2020
24/02/2020
3,300
250
3198/18
10/01/2018
Dobriša MILOŠEVIĆ
19/11/1931
Jeremić Dijana
Čačak
09/06/2020
10/03/2020
3,000
250
5769/18
23/01/2018
Mihajlo MARKOVIĆ
22/02/1949
Petković Zoran
Kragujevac
21/05/2020
10/06/2020
3,300
250
12109/18
28/02/2018
Mirjana STOJADINOVIĆ
03/11/1974
Veličković Veljko
Beograd
09/06/2020
11/03/2020
4,700
250
20413/18
13/04/2018
Miroslav NIKOLIĆ
08/09/1959
-
09/06/2020
26/02/2020
3,600
-
24476/18
18/05/2018
Radoslav MARKOVIĆ
28/04/1973
Kovačević Slaven
Kragujevac
14/04/2020
09/03/2020
2,700
250
34105/18
07/07/2018
Biserka JERKOVIĆ
08/09/1948
-
14/04/2020
09/03/2020
2,500
-
39352/18
08/08/2018
Nada DŽODAN
15/04/1966
Vujović Dragan
Stara Pazova
14/04/2020
20/02/2020
3,000
250
44678/18
03/09/2018
Slavica MITROVIĆ
13/06/1964
-
09/06/2020
10/03/2020
1,500
-
48284/18
05/10/2018
Nikola MARJANOVIĆ
22/03/1968
Jasika Nikola
Inđija
14/04/2020
02/06/2020
3,600
250
56426/18
09/11/2018
Mustafa HAJDAR
24/05/1937
Savić Ivan
Beograd
09/06/2020
16/06/2020
1,200
250
58685/18
28/11/2018
Nedeljko ŠKUNDRIĆ
03/06/1951
-
09/06/2020
19/05/2020
3,600
-
10597/19
13/02/2019
Selim BUROVIĆ
20/07/1942
-
21/08/2020
12/06/2020
2,000
-
26999/19
10/05/2019
Julijana NEDELJKOVIĆ
07/09/1967
-
14/04/2020
10/03/2020
1,500
-
[1] Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.
2 Less any amounts which may have already been paid in that regard at the domestic level.
3 Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.
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