Resolution CM/ResDH(2016)262
Execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights
Cunha Martins Da Silva Couto against Portugal
Application No.
Case
Judgment of
Final on
66436/12
CUNHA MARTINS DA SILVA COUTO
30/04/2015
30/04/2015
(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 21 September 2016
at the 1265th meeting of the 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 (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 which concern the excessive length of the proceedings (violation of Article 6, paragraph 1);
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;
Noting that the just satisfaction granted by the Court in this case has been paid;
Recalling that the Committee of Ministers put an end to its supervision of the question of the excessive length of judicial proceedings by final Resolution CM/ResDH(2016)149, adopted on 8 June 2016 within the framework of the group of cases Oliveira Modesto and others;
Having satisfied itself that all the 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 this case and
DECIDES to close the examination thereof.
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