Resolution CM/ResDH(2023)447
Execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
Two cases against Serbia
(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 13 December 2023
at the 1484th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)
Application No.
Case
Judgment of
Final on
7833/12
POPADIĆ
20/09/2022
20/12/2022
19857/10
KALOČAI SOBONJA
04/07/2023
04/07/2023
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 on account of the excessively lengthy proceedings concerning the parents’ right of contact with their children (violations of Article 8);
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(2023)1018);
Recalling that the question of further general measures required in response to excessive length of judicial proceedings continues to be examined within the framework of the Jevremović group of cases;
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.