FIRST SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 20005/22
Ottóné GRÓB and Others
against Hungary
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 17 May 2023 as a Committee composed of:
Alena Poláčková, President,
Gilberto Felici,
Raffaele Sabato, judges,
and Attila Teplán, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,
Having regard to the above application lodged on 12 April 2022,
Having regard to the formal declarations accepting a friendly settlement of the case,
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 I. Barbalics, a lawyer practising in Budapest.
The applicants’ complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention concerning the excessive length of civil proceedings were communicated to the Hungarian Government (“the Government”).
The Court received the friendly-settlement declaration, signed by the parties, under which the applicants agreed to waive any further claims against Hungary in respect of the facts giving rise to this application, subject to an undertaking by the Government to pay them the amount detailed in the appended table. This amount 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 this amount within the above‑mentioned three-month period, the Government undertake 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
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 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 8 June 2023.
Attila Teplán Alena Poláčková
Acting Deputy Registrar President
APPENDIX
Application raising complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention
(excessive length of civil proceedings)
Application no.
Date of introduction
Applicant’s name
Year of birth
Representative’s name and location
Date of receipt of Government’s declaration
Date of receipt of Applicant’s declaration
Amount awarded for pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage and costs and expenses
per applicant
(in euros)[1]
20005/22
12/04/2022
(34 applicants)
Ottóné GRÓB
1943
Péter SMIDELIK
1970
Károly ROLLÉDER
1942
Sándor REICH
1937
Anett BICSKEY
1991
Sándor KÖRTVÉLY
1940
Ilona POKÓ
1951
József HORVÁTH
1950
Mária SZŰCS
1980
Lászlóné POZSGAI
1934
Lászlóné PALKOVICS
1941
Sándorné KOVÁCS
1934
Gábor BOGLÁRI
1957
Tiborné MÁTÉ
1947
Józsefné HORVÁTH
1951
Ilona SIMON
1946
Istvánné MENDLER
1955
Mihály OLÁH
1951
István KISS
1930
Júlia MERÉNYI
1988
Marianna MACSUGÁNÉ HEGEDŰS
1955
László KŐSZEGI
1928
Annamária Katalin SZÉLIG
1951
Frigyes BECZŐK
1975
István Ferencné KOSZPEK
1933
Ferencné VÁRKONYI
1944
János Tiborné TÓTH
1965
Mária CZÉKMAN
1953
Károly KOPÁCS
1966
Katalin HORVÁTHNÉ BÍRÓ
1980
Ernőné BÍRÓ
1955
Imre MÁTÉ
1941
Ferenc MEGYES
1947
György Ferenc HORVÁTH
1930
Barbalics István
Budapest
11/04/2023
31/01/2023
9,100
[1] Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.