Resolution CM/ResDH(2007)172[1]
Execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights
Meier against France
(Application No. 33023/96, friendly settlement, judgment of 7 February 2002)
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 complaints declared admissible in this case concerned the applicant's detention pending extradition and particularly the supervision of his mail and the refusal to forward a manuscript that he had written and that he eventually wanted to publish (complaints based on Articles 8 and 10 of the Convention), as well as the absence of an effective remedy for complaint (complaint under Article 13 of the Convention);
Whereas in this case the Court, having taken formal note of 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 this case out of its list and took note of the parties' undertaking not to request a re-hearing of the cases before the Grand Chamber;
Whereas under this friendly settlement it was agreed that the government of the respondent state would pay the applicant 40 000 French francs (6 097.96 euros) 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 in order 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 on 21 June 2002, the government of the respondent state paid the applicant the sum provided for in the friendly settlement, in conditions accepted by the applicant;
DECLARES, having examined the information supplied by the government of France, 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 19 December 2007 at the 1013th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies
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