Resolution CM/ResDH(2021)323
Execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
Two cases against Croatia
(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 2 December 2021
at the 1419th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)
Application No.
Case
Judgment of
Final on
46663/15
PULJIĆ
08/10/2020
08/10/2020
35375/15
ZELIĆ
10/12/2020
10/12/2020
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 in the case of Puljić and noting that no award of just satisfaction was made by the Court in the case of Zelić (see document DH-DD(2021)1009);
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.