The Committee of Ministers, under the terms of Article 32 (art. 32) of
the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental
Freedoms (hereinafter referred to as "the convention"),
Having regard to the report drawn up by the European Commission of
Human Rights in accordance with Article 31 (art. 31) of the convention
relating to the application lodged by Mr Giovanni Ventura against
Italy (No. 7438/76);
Whereas on 26 March 1981 the Commission transmitted the said report to
the Committee of Ministers and whereas the period of three months
provided for in Article 32, paragraph 1 (art. 32-1), of the convention
has elapsed without the case having been brought before the European
Court of Human Rights, in pursuance of Article 48 (art. 48) of the
convention;
Whereas in his application introduced on 20 March 1976 the applicant
complained that the length of his detention on remand as well as the
length of the criminal proceedings instituted against him inter alia
for certain criminal attempts having occasioned death which took place
in Milan in December 1969 constituted respectively violations of
Article 5, paragraph 3 (art. 5-3), and Article 6, paragraph 1
(art. 6-1), of the convention;
Whereas the Commission, after having declared the application
admissible on 9 March 1978, has expressed in its report the opinion,
by ten votes against four with one abstention, that there was no
breach of Article 5, paragraph 3 (art. 5-3), of the convention and by
eleven votes against four that there was equally no breach of
Article 6, paragraph 1 (art. 6-1), of the convention;
Agreeing with the opinion expressed by the Commission in accordance
with Article 31, paragraph 1 (art. 31-1), of the convention;
Voting in accordance with the provisions of Article 32, paragraph 1
(art. 32-1), of the convention,
Decides that in this case there was no violation of the Convention for
the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.