Resolution CM/ResDH(2008)93[1]
Execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights
Dymacek and Dymackova against the Czech Republic
(Application No. 35098/03, judgment of 7 February 2008, friendly settlement)
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 in this case, transmitted the same day by the Court to the Committee;
Recalling that the applicant’s admissible complaint in this case concerns deprivation of property, acquired in good faith under the Communist regime, pursuant to the law on restitution and the absence of compensation (violation of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1);
Whereas in this case the Court, having taken formal note of the friendly settlement reached by the government of the respondent state and the applicant, and having been satisfied that the settlement is based on respect for human rights as defined in the Convention or its Protocols decided, unanimously, to strike this case out of its list and took note of the parties’ undertaking not to request a re-hearing of the case before the Grand Chamber;
Whereas under this friendly settlement it was agreed that the government of the respondent state would pay the applicant 27 000 EUR, within three months as from the notification of the judgment;
Recalling that the striking-out of a case which has been declared admissible is effected by means of a judgment which the President forwards to the Committee of Ministers once it has become final in order to allow it to supervise, in accordance with Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention, the execution of any undertakings which may have been attached to the discontinuance, friendly settlement or solution of the matter;
Having invited the government of the respondent state to inform the Committee of the measures taken to comply with the Czech Republic’s obligation under Article 46, paragraph 1, of the Convention to abide by the judgments;
Having examined the information provided by the government in accordance with the Committee’s Rules for the application of Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention;
Having satisfied itself that on 15 April 2008, within the time-limit agreed to under the terms of the friendly settlement, the government of the respondent state paid the applicants the sum of 27 000 EUR agreed in the friendly settlement and that no other measure was required in these cases to comply with the Court’s judgment;
Having examined the information supplied by the government of the Czech Republic,
DECLARES that it has exercised its functions under Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention with respect to the commitments subscribed to in this case and DECIDES to close its examination.
[1] Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 8 October 2008 at the 1035th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies
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