Resolution CM/ResDH(2025)268
Execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights
Papakostandini against Albania
(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 7 October 2025
at the 1539th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)
Application No.
Case
Judgment of
Final on
7568/08
PAPAKOSTANDINI
18/07/2024
18/07/2024
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 established on account of the excessive length of civil proceedings;
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 noted the information provided regarding the payment of the just satisfaction awarded by the Court;
Considering that the question of individual measures was resolved, given that the domestic judicial proceedings ended before the judgment of the Court;
Recalling that the question of general measures required in response to the shortcomings found by the Court in this judgment continues to be examined within the framework of the Luli and Others group of cases also in the light of the Court’s findings in this case, and that the closure of this case therefore in no way prejudges the Committee’s evaluation of the general measures in relation to the excessive length of judicial proceedings in civil and criminal cases and the lack of effective domestic remedies in this respect;
DECLARES that it has exercised its functions under Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention in this case;
CONCLUDES that the necessary individual measures have been adopted;
DECIDES to continue to supervise the adoption of the necessary general measures in the Luli and Others group of cases;
DECIDES to close the examination of this case.