Resolution CM/ResDH(2010)193[1]
Execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights
Iera Moni Profitou Iliou Thiras against Greece
(Application No. 32259/02, judgment of 22 December 2005, final on 22 March 2006)
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 judgment transmitted by the Court to the Committee once it had become final;
Recalling that the violation of the Convention found by the Court in this case concerns the failure to comply with domestic court judgments concerning the removal of aerials and environmental protection on the island of Santorini (violation of article 6, paragraph 1) (see details in Appendix);
Having invited the government of the respondent state to inform the Committee of the measures taken to comply with its obligation under Article 46, paragraph 1, of the Convention to abide by the judgment;
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, within the time-limit set, the respondent state paid the applicant the just satisfaction provided in the judgment (see details in Appendix),
Recalling that a finding of violations by the Court requires, over and above the payment of just satisfaction awarded by the Court in its judgments, the adoption by the respondent state, where appropriate:
- of individual measures to put an end to the violations and erase their consequences so as to achieve as far as possible restitutio in integrum; and
- of general measures preventing similar violations;
DECLARES, having examined the measures taken by the respondent state (see Appendix), that it has exercised its functions under Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention in this case and
DECIDES to close the examination of this case.
Appendix to Resolution CM/ResDH(2010)193
Information about the measures to comply with the judgment in the case of
Iera Moni Profitou Iliou Thiras against Greece
Introductory case summary
The case concerns the non-compliance by the administration, in particular the Greek telecommunications organisation (OTE) and the Greek broadcasting corporation (ERT) with three judgments of the Council of State. These judgments, rendered in 2001 and 2003, confirmed decisions of the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications and of the national Commission for Telecommunications and Postal Services, taken in 1999 and 2000 and ordering the removal of aerials placed near the applicant monastery on the island of Santorini.
The European Court, considering the importance of the matter of the preservation of the natural and cultural environment and the time that had elapsed, found that the failure of the authorities to enforce irrevocable and final decisions had deprived Article 6 §1 of all useful effect (violation of Article 6, paragraph 1).
I.Payment of just satisfaction and individual measures
a) Details of just satisfaction
Pecuniary damage
Non-pecuniary damage
Costs and expenses
Total
-
10 000 EUR
2 000 EUR
12 000 EUR
Paid on 21/06/2006
b) Individual measures
By a letter of 13/06/2006 the Greek authorities informed the Committee that the aerials at issue, along with the material on which they had been installed, were removed in 2005. Thus, the applicant monastery’s complaint, lodged in 2004 before the 3members Committee of the Council of State (in accordance with Law 3068/2002), concerning the administration’s non-compliance, was struck out in 2005, upon the applicant’s own request.
The European Court awarded the applicant just satisfaction in respect of non-pecuniary damage.
Consequently, no other individual measure was considered necessary by the Committee of Ministers.
II.General measures
The Court’s judgment was translated and is available on the website of the State Legal Council ().
The case presents similarities with other previous cases relating to the administration’s non-compliance with domestic judgments, in the context of which Greece has adopted a series of constitutional, statutory and other measures for the prevention of similar violations (see Final Resolution ResDH(2004)81 in Hornsby against Greece and other cases, 09/12/2004). However, additional issues in this field are highlighted in more recent judgments. The measures taken or envisaged by the Greek authorities are being supervised by the Committee of Ministers in the Beka-Koulocheri group.
III.Conclusions of the respondent state
The government considers that the measures adopted have fully remedied the consequences for the applicant of the violation of the Convention found by the European Court in this case, that these measures will prevent similar violations and that Greece has thus complied with its obligations under Article 46, paragraph 1, of the Convention.
[1] Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 2 December 2010 at the 1100th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies
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