Resolution CM/ResDH(2025)281
Execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
Two cases against Hungary
(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 7 October 2025
at the 1539th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)
Application No.
Case
Judgment of
Final on
50811/10
BARCZA AND OTHERS
11/10/2016
11/01/2017
17884/12
HESZ AND OTHERS
19/02/2019
19/02/2019
The Committee of Ministers, under the terms of Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which provides that the Committee supervises the execution of final judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Convention” and “the Court”),
Having regard to the final judgments transmitted by the Court to the Committee in these cases and to the violations established on account of the interference with the applicants’ right to peaceful enjoyment of their property due to prolonged expropriation proceedings and with their right to a fair trial due to the excessive length of the judicial proceedings;
Recalling the respondent State’s obligation, under Article 46, paragraph 1, of the Convention, to abide by all final judgments in cases to which it has been a party and that this obligation entails, over and above the payment of any sums awarded by the Court, the adoption by the authorities of the respondent State, where required:
- of individual measures to put an end to violations established and erase their consequences so as to achieve as far as possible restitutio in integrum; and
- of general measures preventing similar violations;
Having invited the government of the respondent State to inform the Committee of the measures taken to comply with the above-mentioned obligation;
Having examined the action report provided by the government indicating the measures adopted in order to give effect to the judgments including the information provided regarding the payment of the just satisfaction awarded by the Court (see document DH-DD(2025)795);
Recalling that the general measures required to respond to the shortcomings found by the Court in Hesz and Others in respect of the excessive length of judicial proceedings (Article 6 § 1) continue to be examined within the framework of the Gazsó group of cases (Application No. 48322/12), and that the closure of these cases therefore in no way prejudges the Committee’s evaluation of the general measures required;
Having satisfied itself that all measures required by Article 46, paragraph 1, have been adopted,
DECLARES that it has exercised its functions under Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention in these cases and
DECIDES to close the examination thereof.