SECOND SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 5447/21
Goran ČVORKOV against Serbia
and 14 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (Second Section), sitting on 24 March 2022 as a Committee composed of:
Jovan Ilievski, President,
Gilberto Felici,
Diana Sârcu, 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 M. Zeković, a lawyer practising in Belgrade.
The applicants’ complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 concerning the non-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 Government also undertake to ensure the enforcement of the domestic decisions under consideration in the cases concerned (see appended table) within the same three-month period, and to pay any costs of the domestic enforcement proceedings.
The payment and the enforcement of the domestic decisions in the cases concerned 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 14 April 2022.
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Viktoriya Maradudina Jovan Ilievski
Acting Deputy Registrar President
APPENDIX
List of applications raising complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1
(non-enforcement or 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]
5447/21
13/12/2020
Goran ČVORKOV
1966
14/12/2021
03/12/2021
1,000
250
38713/21
22/07/2021
Zoran ŽIVKOVIĆ
1956
14/12/2021
03/12/2021
1,000
250
39456/21
22/07/2021
Bratislav STEFANOVIĆ
1962
14/12/2021
03/12/2021
1,000
250
39459/21
22/07/2021
Tomislav KOTLAJIĆ
1957
14/12/2021
03/12/2021
1,000
250
39461/21
22/07/2021
Goran ALEKSIĆ
1982
14/12/2021
03/12/2021
1,000
250
39465/21
22/07/2021
Angelina RADIĆ
1975
14/12/2021
03/12/2021
1,000
250
39466/21
22/07/2021
Ranko JANKOVIĆ
1953
14/12/2021
03/12/2021
1,000
250
39467/21
22/07/2021
Bogomir SIMIĆ
1959
14/12/2021
03/12/2021
1,000
250
39468/21
22/07/2021
Ljiljana MILINČIĆ
1962
14/12/2021
03/12/2021
1,000
250
39469/21
22/07/2021
Ljubinko VULIĆ
1956
14/12/2021
03/12/2021
1,000
250
39470/21
28/07/2021
Slavica JOVANOVIĆ
1972
14/12/2021
03/12/2021
1,000
250
39471/21
28/07/2021
Bratimirka JOVIĆ
1954
14/12/2021
03/12/2021
1,000
250
39472/21
28/07/2021
Snežana MILJKOVIĆ
1968
14/12/2021
03/12/2021
1,000
250
39473/21
28/07/2021
Gorica PANTIĆ
1956
14/12/2021
03/12/2021
1,000
250
39474/21
28/07/2021
Goran JOVANOVIĆ
1969
14/12/2021
03/12/2021
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.