FIFTH SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 1557/22
Antonín ČÍŽ and Lenka LINDOVSKÁ
against the Czech Republic
The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting on 6 March 2025 as a Committee composed of:
Armen Harutyunyan, President,
Andreas Zünd,
Mykola Gnatovskyy, judges,
and Martina Keller, Deputy Section Registrar,
Having regard to the above application lodged on 28 December 2021,
Having regard to the formal declarations accepting a friendly settlement of the case,
Having deliberated, decides as follows:
FACTS AND PROCEDURE
1. The applicants, Mr Antonín Číž and Ms Lenka Lindovská, are Czech nationals, who were born in 2007 and 1981, respectively and live in Kopřivnice. They were represented before the Court by Mr D. Zahumenský, a lawyer practising in Brno.
2. The Czech Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Mr P. Konůpka, of the Ministry of Justice.
3. The applicants complained under Articles 8 and 13 of the Convention and Article 2 of Protocol No. 1 that there had been an interference with their right to respect for their private and family life and the first applicant’s right to education on account of the Covid-19 related restrictions on and prohibition of in-class lessons ordered on the basis of Government crisis resolutions, which lasted from 14 October 2020 to 12 December 2020.
4. On 30 October 2024 the Court received a friendly settlement declaration signed by the parties under which the applicants agreed to waive any further claims against the Czech Republic in respect of the facts giving rise to this application against an undertaking by the Government to pay them EUR 5,000 euros to cover any non-pecuniary damage as well as costs and expenses. This amount will be converted into Czech korunas at the rate applicable on the date of payment and will be free of any taxes that may be applicable. It will be payable within three months from the date of notification of the decision taken by the Court. In the event of failure to pay this sum within the said three-month period, the Government undertook to pay simple interest on it, 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 case.
THE LAW
5. 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 its Protocols and finds no reasons to justify a continued examination of the application. In view of the above, it is appropriate to strike the case out of the list.
For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,
Decides to strike the application out of its list of cases in accordance with Article 39 of the Convention.
Done in English and notified in writing on 27 March 2025.
Martina Keller Armen Harutyunyan
Deputy Registrar President