Resolution CM/ResDH(2019)201
Execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
Three cases against Portugal
(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 4 September 2019 at the 1352nd meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)
Application No.
Case
Judgment of
Final on
55442/12
MEDIPRESS-SOCIEDADE JORNALÍSTICA, LDA
30/08/2016
30/11/2016
53139/11
DO CARMO DE PORTUGAL E CASTRO CÂMARA
04/10/2016
04/01/2017
31566/13
TAVARES DE ALMEIDA FERNANDES AND ALMEIDA FERNANDESP
17/01/2017
29/05/2017
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 judgments transmitted by the Court to the Committee in these cases 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 to give effect to the judgments including the information provided regarding the payment of the just satisfaction awarded by the Court (see document DH-DD(2019)587);
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 these cases and
DECIDES to close the examination thereof.
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