Resolution ResDH(2006)34
concerning the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights
of 26 October 2004 (Friendly settlement)
in the case of Koliha against the Czech Republic
(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 21 June 2006
at the 966th 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 (hereinafter referred to as “the Convention”),
Having regard to the final judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the Koliha case delivered on 26 October 2004 and transmitted the same day to the Committee of Ministers under Article 46 of the Convention;
Recalling that the case originated in an application (No. 52863/99) against the Czech Republic, lodged with the European Court of Human Rights on 22 September 1999 under Article 34 of the Convention by Mr Zdeněk Koliha, a Czech Republic national, and that the Court declared admissible the complaint concerning the excessive length of certain civil proceedings;
Whereas in its judgment of 26 October 2004 the Court, after having taken formal note of a friendly settlement reached by the government of the respondent state and the applicant, and having been satisfied that the settlement was based on respect for human rights as defined in the Convention or its Protocols, decided, unanimously to strike the 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 the above-mentioned friendly settlement it was agreed that the Government of the Czech Republic would pay the applicant, the sum of 2 200 euros in respect of non-pecuniary, pecuniary damage as well as costs and expenses, within three months as from the notification of the judgment and that simple interest would be payable on the sum at a rate equal to the marginal lending rate of the European Central Bank plus three percentage points from the expiry of the above-mentioned three months until settlement;
Recalling that Rule 43, paragraph 3, of the Rules of the Court (old Rule 44, paragraph 2) provides that the striking-out of a case shall be effected by means of a judgment which the President shall forward 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 or solution of the matter;
Having regard to the Rules adopted by the Committee of Ministers concerning the application of Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention;
Having satisfied itself that on 26 January 2005 within the time-limit agreed to under the terms of the friendly settlement, the Government of the respondent state had paid the applicant the sum provided for in the friendly settlement and that no other measure was required in the present case to conform to the Court’s judgment,
Declares, after having examined the information supplied by the Government of the Czech Republic, that it has exercised its functions under Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention in this case.
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