Resolution CM/ResDH(2024)48
Execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights
I.C. against Romania
(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 14 March 2024
at the 1492nd meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)
Application No.
Case
Judgment of
Final on
36934/08
I.C.
24/05/2016
24/08/2016
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 judgment transmitted by the Court to the Committee in this case and to the violation established on account of the inadequate criminal-law response to the applicant’s allegations of rape due to the excessive reliance by the prosecution service and the courts on the lack of evidence of physical resistance and their failure to assess whether there had been valid consent, with due regard for the applicant’s particular vulnerability, as a child with an intellectual disability;
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 information provided by the government regarding the individual measures including the payment of the just satisfaction awarded by the Court (see document DH-DD(2020)608);
Considering that the question of individual measures was resolved, as the just satisfaction was paid and the applicant, who had reached adulthood at the time the Court delivered the judgment, could, if she so chose, request the reopening of the criminal proceedings into her allegations of rape;
Recalling that the question of general measures required in response to the shortcomings found by the Court in the present judgment continues to be examined within the framework of the M.G.C. v. Romania group of cases also in the light of the Court’s findings in this case, and that the closure of this case therefore in no way prejudges the Committee’s evaluation of the general measures required to guarantee an effective criminal-law response to child sexual abuse;
DECLARES that it has exercised its functions under Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention in this case;
CONCLUDES that the necessary individual measures have been adopted;
DECIDES to continue to supervise the adoption of the general measures required to guarantee an effective criminal-law response to child sexual abuse in the M.G.C. v. Romania group of cases;
DECIDES to close the examination of this case.