Resolution CM/ResDH(2023)403
Execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights
Vasil Vasilev against Bulgaria
(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
7610/15
VASIL VASILEV
16/11/2021
16/02/2022
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 established concerning the unlawful interference with the applicant’s right to respect for his private life and correspondence due to the lack of sufficient clarity in the legal framework and the absence of procedural guarantees relating to the destruction of lawyer-client communications accidentally intercepted in the context of secret surveillance operations, as well as the lack of public hearings and lack of publicity of the domestic courts’ judgments (violations of Articles 8 and 6, paragraph 1);
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 judgment including the information provided regarding the payment of the just satisfaction awarded by the Court (see document DH-DD(2023)1441);
Noting that the question concerning the lack of sufficient clarity in the legal framework and the absence of procedural guarantees relating to the destruction of materials relating to lawyer-client communications, intercepted in the context of secret surveillance operations, continues to be examined in the Ekimdzhiev and Others case (Application No. 70078/12);
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.
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