Interim Resolution CM/ResDH(2014)184
Execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights
Catan and others against Russian Federation
Application
Case
Judgment of
Final on
43370/04+
CATAN AND OTHERS[1]
19/10/2012
Grand Chamber
(adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 25 September 2014
at the 1208th meeting of Ministers’ Deputies)
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, as amended by Protocol No. 11 (hereinafter “the Convention” and “the Court”),
Underlining that, in its judgment in the case of Catan and Others, now final for almost two years, the Court found that “by virtue of its continued military, economic and political support for the “MRT”, which could not otherwise survive, Russia incurs responsibility under the Convention for the violation of the applicants’ rights to education”;
Reiterating its deep concern in view of the reports of a continuous violation of the applicants’ right to education, resulting from acts of intimidation and pressure affecting the functioning of the Latin script schools in the Transdniestrian region of the Republic of Moldova;
Recalling having firmly called upon the Russian authorities to take all possible measures to put an end to the violation of the applicants’ right to education and to transmit:
- by 5 July 2014, information on how they intended to guarantee that the Latin script schools continue to function for the school year 2014/2015;
- as soon as possible, and at the latest by 1 September 2014, a global action plan or action report responding fully to the Court’s judgment;
Deeply deploring that the Russian authorities have not provided any information either in this respect, or on the payment to the applicants of the just satisfaction awarded by the Court;
REITERATED WITH INSISTENCE the unconditional obligation of every respondent State, under Article 46, paragraph 1, of the Convention, to abide by final judgments in cases to which it is a party;
STRONGLY URGED the Russian Federation to take all possible measures to put an end to the violation of the applicants’ right to education;
INSISTED that the Russian authorities inform the Committee of Ministers, without further delay, and in any event not later than 1 November 2014, that the measures requested by the Committee of Ministers have indeed been taken;
DECIDED to resume consideration of this case at its 1214th meeting (December 2014) (DH).
[1] Case against the Republic of Moldova and the Russian Federation. The European Court found no violation in respect of the Republic of Moldova.
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