Resolution CM/ResDH(2026)120
Execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights
Pontuale and Others against Italy
(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 17 June 2026
at the 1564th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)
Application No.
Case
Judgment of
Final on
31452/15
PONTUALE AND OTHERS
25/09/2025
25/09/2025
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 violations of Article 6, paragraph 1, and Article 13 of the Convention, established on account of the excessive length of judicial civil proceedings and the lack of an effective remedy in this respect;
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 just satisfaction awarded by the Court was paid and the domestic proceedings had been terminated when the Court issued this judgment;
Recalling that the question of general measures concerning the excessive length of civil proceedings (violation of Article 6, paragraph 1) continues to be examined in the Trapani v. Italy group of cases, and that the closure of this case therefore in no way prejudges the Committee’s evaluation of the general measures required concerning this issue;
Recalling that the general measures required to guarantee the non-repetition of the violation of Article 13 have been examined in the Olivieri and Others v. Italy group of cases (see Final Resolution CM/ResDH(2022)351);
DECLARES that it has exercised its functions under Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention in this case;
CONCLUDES that the question of individual measures has been resolved;
DECIDES to continue to supervise the adoption of the necessary general measures concerning the excessive length of judicial proceedings before civil courts in the group of cases Trapani;
DECIDES to close the examination of this case.