SECOND SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 15270/21
Stada ČEKOVIĆ against Serbia
and 22 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (Second Section), sitting on 25 November 2021 as a Committee composed of:
Pauliine Koskelo, President,
Branko Lubarda,
Marko Bošnjak, judges,
and Viktoriya Maradudina, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,
Having regard to the above applications lodged on the various dates indicated in the appended table,
Having regard to the formal declarations accepting a friendly settlement of the cases,
Having deliberated, decides as follows:
FACTS AND PROCEDURE
The list of applicants is set out in the appended table.
The applicants were represented by Mr Z. Janićijević, a lawyer practising in Novi Pazar.
The applicants’ complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 concerning the delayed enforcement of domestic decisions given against socially/State-owned companies were communicated to the Serbian Government (“the Government”).
The Court received the friendly-settlement declarations, signed by the parties, under which the applicants agreed to waive any further claims against Serbia in respect of the facts giving rise to these applications, subject to an undertaking by the Government to pay them the amounts detailed in the appended table. These amounts will be converted into the currency of the respondent State at the rate applicable on the date of payment, and will be payable within three months from the date of notification of the Court’s decision. In the event of failure to pay these amounts within the above-mentioned three-month period, the Government undertake to pay simple interest on them, from the expiry of that period until settlement, at a rate equal to the marginal lending rate of the European Central Bank during the default period plus three percentage points.
The payment will constitute the final resolution of the cases.
THE LAW
Having regard to the similar subject matter of the applications, the Court finds it appropriate to examine them jointly in a single decision.
The Court takes note of the friendly settlement reached between the parties. It is satisfied that the settlement is based on respect for human rights as defined in the Convention and the Protocols thereto and finds no reasons to justify a continued examination of the applications.
In view of the above, it is appropriate to strike the cases out of the list.
For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,
Decides to join the applications;
Decides to strike the applications out of its list of cases in accordance with Article 39 of the Convention.
Done in English and notified in writing on 16 December 2021.
Viktoriya Maradudina Pauliine Koskelo
Acting Deputy Registrar President
APPENDIX
List of applications raising complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1
(delayed enforcement of domestic decisions given against socially/State-owned companies)
No.
Application no.
Date of introduction
Applicant’s name
Year of birth
Date of receipt of Government’s declaration
Date of receipt of Applicant’s declaration
Amount awarded for non-pecuniary damage
per applicant (in euros)[1] [2]
Amount awarded for costs and expenses per application
(in euros)[3]
15270/21
12/03/2021
Stada ČEKOVIĆ
1969
28/09/2021
11/10/2021
1,000
250
15271/21
12/03/2021
Radoljub GLOĐOVIĆ
1963
28/09/2021
11/10/2021
1,000
250
15326/21
09/03/2021
Milanka BIŠEVAC
1971
28/09/2021
11/10/2021
1,000
250
15328/21
09/03/2021
Vladimirka BOGDANOVIĆ
1952
28/09/2021
11/10/2021
1,000
250
15331/21
09/03/2021
Milica DRMANIĆ
1966
28/09/2021
11/10/2021
1,000
250
15334/21
09/03/2021
Miodrag BUGARIĆ
1968
28/09/2021
11/10/2021
1,000
250
15338/21
10/03/2021
Domka GLOĐOVIĆ
1971
28/09/2021
11/10/2021
1,000
250
15339/21
10/03/2021
Marija BOGDANOVIĆ
1947
28/09/2021
11/10/2021
1,000
250
15342/21
10/03/2021
Milodar BUGARIĆ
1960
28/09/2021
11/10/2021
1,000
250
15345/21
10/03/2021
Milanka ZABUNOVIĆ
1970
28/09/2021
11/10/2021
1,000
250
15347/21
10/03/2021
Ljubostina KOMATINA
1959
28/09/2021
11/10/2021
1,000
250
15348/21
10/03/2021
Draga MILETIĆ
1958
28/09/2021
11/10/2021
1,000
250
15351/21
10/03/2021
Dušan BUGARIĆ
1949
28/09/2021
11/10/2021
1,000
250
15354/21
10/03/2021
Ljuban JELISIJEVIĆ
1964
28/09/2021
11/10/2021
1,000
250
15809/21
11/03/2021
Slavica VELJOVIĆ
1972
28/09/2021
11/10/2021
1,000
250
15815/21
11/03/2021
Zoran FILIPOVIĆ
1964
28/09/2021
11/10/2021
1,000
250
15822/21
11/03/2021
Prvoslav MILETIĆ
1959
28/09/2021
11/10/2021
1,000
250
15826/21
11/03/2021
Milos MILETIĆ
1968
28/09/2021
11/10/2021
1,000
250
15830/21
11/03/2021
Nenad MIRKOVIĆ
1969
28/09/2021
11/10/2021
1,000
250
15831/21
11/03/2021
Mira MIRKOVIĆ
1969
28/09/2021
11/10/2021
1,000
250
15833/21
11/03/2021
Milomirka STEFANOVIĆ
1957
28/09/2021
11/10/2021
1,000
250
15836/21
11/03/2021
Siniša STEFANOVIĆ
1970
28/09/2021
11/10/2021
1,000
250
15838/21
11/03/2021
Nataša FILIPOVIĆ
1968
28/09/2021
11/10/2021
1,000
250
[1] Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.
[2] Less any amounts which may have already been paid in that regard at the domestic level.
[3] Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.