Resolution CM/ResDH(2025)383
Execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights
Dovzhenko against Ukraine
(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 4 December 2025
at the 1545th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)
Application No.
Case
Judgment of
Final on
36650/03
DOVZHENKO
12/01/2012
12/04/2012
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 violations established;
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 judgment, and noting that no award of just satisfaction was made by the Court in the present case (see document DH-DD(2025)51);
Recalling that the questions of general measures required in response to similar violations, established on account of breach of the principle of presumption of innocence in criminal proceedings; violation of the applicant’s right to free legal assistance; and unlawful interference with the applicant’s right to respect for his correspondence while in detention on remand, were examined in the framework of the following leading cases closed with respective Final Resolutions: Panteleyenko (CM/ResDH(2021)137), Maksimenko (CM/ResDH(2019)234) and Sergey Volosyuk (CM/ResDH(2024)174).
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.