Resolution CM/ResDH(2021)406
Execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights
Guz against Poland
(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 8 December 2021
at the 1420th meeting of the Ministers' Deputies)
Application No.
Case
Judgment of
Final on
965/12
GUZ
15/10/2020
15/01/2021
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 of Article 10 of the Convention established on account of disciplinary penalty imposed on a judge in 2011 for critical remarks made in his reply to the assessment report prepared in the context of his promotion procedure;
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 to give effect to the judgment including the information provided regarding the payment of the just satisfaction awarded by the Court (see document DH-DD(2021)1146);
Noting that the authorities have adopted awareness-raising measures that appear capable of addressing the specific causes of the violation found, taking into account the circumstances of this case;
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.