FIRST SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 34903/20
Franco CARAFA against Hungary
and 9 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 9 September 2021 as a Committee composed of:
Erik Wennerström, President,
Lorraine Schembri Orland,
Ioannis Ktistakis, judges,
and Attila Teplán, 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 proceedings were communicated to the Hungarian 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 the friendly-settlement declarations, signed by the parties, under which the applicants agreed to waive any further claims against Hungary 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 30 September 2021.
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Attila Teplán Erik Wennerström
Acting Deputy Registrar President
APPENDIX
List of applications raising complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention
(excessive length of civil proceedings)
No.
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
(in euros)[1]
34903/20
31/07/2020
Franco CARAFA
1955
Karsai Dániel András
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings
21/06/2021
26/02/2021
5,200
43376/20
11/09/2020
Tiborne BALÁZS
1948
Boros Péter
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings
15/07/2021
14/05/2021
15,600
47875/20
22/10/2020
György MAKAY
1976
Gerencsér Éva
Budapest
05/07/2021
22/07/2021
3,900
55502/20
08/12/2020
Zsuzsanna KONDÁKORNÉ ÓCSAI
1970
Nagy Rajmund
Budapest
06/07/2021
26/04/2021
4,600
1511/21
22/12/2020
Kálmán KÖRÖSKÉNYI
1956
Hantos Ádám
Budapest
05/07/2021
02/06/2021
2,600
4814/21
11/01/2021
Ferenc PAP
1982
10/06/2021
26/05/2021
2,600
8619/21
01/02/2021
Andrea Zsuzsanna VENDÉG
1970
Szegedi Zsolt
Nyíregyháza
07/06/2021
25/05/2021
3,300
9112/21
25/01/2021
Csilla PETERDI
1972
Pivarnyikné Juhász Emőke
Budapest
05/07/2021
10/05/2021
3,900
12096/21
22/02/2021
Viktor TÓTH
1978
Grabovszky Norbert
Budapest
28/06/2021
03/06/2021
2,600
13342/21
01/03/2021
György ROMHÁNYI
1974
15/07/2021
26/05/2021
2,600
[1] Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.
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