FOURTH SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 12835/15
Petru BURCĂ against Romania
and 4 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting on 16 March 2017 as a Committee composed of:
Vincent A. De Gaetano, President,
Egidijus Kūris,
Gabriele Kucsko-Stadlmayer, judges,
and Karen Reid, 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 is set out in the appended table.
The applicants’ complaints under Article 3 of the Convention concerning the inadequate conditions of detention were communicated to the Romanian Government (“the Government”). In some of the applications, complaints based on the same facts were also communicated under other provisions of the Convention.
The Court received friendly-settlement declarations under which the applicants agreed to waive any further claims against Romania 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 as regards the complaints concerning the inadequate conditions of detention.
The applicants in cases nos. 12835/15 and 13014/16 also raised other complaints under Article 3 of the Convention.
The Court has examined the applications listed in the appended table and considers that, in the light of all the material in its possession and in so far as the matters complained of are within its competence, these complaints either do not meet the admissibility criteria set out in Articles 34 and 35 of the Convention or do not disclose any appearance of a violation of the rights and freedoms enshrined in the Convention or the Protocols thereto.
It follows that this part of the applications nos. 12835/15 and 13014/16 must be rejected in accordance with Article 35 § 4 of the Convention.
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 as regards the complaints concerning the inadequate conditions of detention;
Declares the remainder of the applications nos. 12835/15 and 13014/16 inadmissible.
Done in English and notified in writing on 6 April 2017.
Karen ReidVincent A. De Gaetano
RegistrarPresident
APPENDIX
No.
Application no.
Date of introduction
Applicant name
Date of birth
Representative name and location
Date of receipt of Government declaration
Date of receipt of Applicant’s declaration
Amount awarded for pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage and costs and expenses
per applicant
(in euros)[i]
12835/15
30/06/2015
Petru Burcă
13/08/1961
14/11/2016
30/09/2016
10,800
44337/15
22/01/2016
Gheorghe Cocoș
10/11/1971
Irina-Maria Peter
București
13/12/2016
04/11/2016
15,000
1371/16
28/01/2016
Adrian-Constantin Milu
26/11/1971
14/11/2016
28/09/2016
3,200
1407/16
30/01/2016
Vasile Ţîrcoman
31/05/1968
Irina-Maria Peter
București
14/11/2016
30/09/2016
4,400
13014/16
31/03/2016
Vasile Toma
11/08/1984
16/11/2016
22/11/2016
4,700
[i] Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.
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