Resolution CM/ResDH(2026)74
Execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights
Svanidze against Georgia
(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 29 April 2026
at the 1558th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)
Application No.
Case
Judgment of
Final on
37809/08
Svanidze
25/07/2019
25/10/2019
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 concerning the breach of the principle of immediacy in the trial;
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 in order to give effect to the judgment including the information provided regarding the payment of the just satisfaction awarded by the Court (see document DH-DD(2025)1444). Noting with satisfaction the decision of the Constitutional Court of Georgia which found the normative content of the relevant provision of the Criminal Procedure Code unconstitutional to the extent that it prevented substitute judges from re-examining or rehearing the case or specific evidence when necessary.
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 this case and
DECIDES to close the examination thereof.