FOURTH SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 20324/14
Klaus Valentin HEEG
against Austria
The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting on 4 April 2017 as a Committee composed of:
Vincent A. De Gaetano, President,
Egidijus Kūris,
Gabriele Kucsko-Stadlmayer, judges,
and Andrea Tamietti, Deputy Section Registrar,
Having regard to the above application lodged on 5 March 2014,
Having regard to the formal declarations accepting a friendly settlement of the case,
Having deliberated, decides as follows:
FACTS AND PROCEDURE
1. The applicant, Mr Klaus Valentin Heeg, is a German national, who was born in 1949 and lives in Alzenau. He was represented before the Court by Mr K. Bernhauser, a lawyer practising in Vienna.
2. The Austrian Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Mr H. Tichy, Head of the International Department at the Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and International Affairs. The German Government did not make use of their right to intervene under Article 36 of the Convention.
3. The applicant complained under Article 6 of the Convention about the length of a set of criminal proceedings.
4. On 24 January and 23 February 2017 the Court received friendly settlement declarations signed by the parties under which the applicant agreed to waive any further claims against Austria in respect of the facts giving rise to this application against an undertaking by the Government to pay him 10,000 euros (EUR) to cover any and all damage as well as costs and expenses, which will be free of any taxes that may be applicable and 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 4 May 2017.
Andrea TamiettiVincent A. De Gaetano
Deputy RegistrarPresident
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