FIRST SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 42911/23
Márta KÁRTESZI and Others
against Hungary
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 13 June 2024 as a Committee composed of:
Gilberto Felici, President,
Péter Paczolay,
Raffaele Sabato, judges,
and Attila Teplán, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,
Having regard to the above application lodged on 27 November 2023,
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 friendly-settlement declarations, 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 4 July 2024.
Attila Teplán Gilberto Felici
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]
42911/23
27/11/2023
(57 applicants)
Márta KÁRTESZI
1948
Sándorné BAUMANN
1954
Zoltán Gáborné BÍRÓ
1954
Jánosné BOKOR
1932
Ferencné BÜKI
1948
Zoltán Lajos CSOBAI
1970
Lászlóné CZAKÓ
1946
Éva DARÓK
1968
Mihály Zoltán DUDÁS
1966
István ELLMANN
1945
Pongrác ERDŐSI
1943
István FORRAI
1967
Jánosné GAZGYIK
1951
Miklós HAJDU
1948
Ödönné HALÁSZ
1938
László IMRE
1964
Mária ISTVÁNFFY
1958
József Sándor JOÓ
1956
Irén JUHÁSZNÉ PRÓKAJ
1964
Ferenc KÁTAI
1964
Gabriella KENDERESI
1963
Péter Endre KENYERES
1951
Zoltán Józsefné KENYERES
1947
Gábor KISS
1969
János KISS
1939
Mariann KOCSIS-TÓTH
1956
László Jenő KORONTHÁLY
1945
Ágnes KOVÁCS
1969
Ferencné KŐVÁRI
1950
Éva KRIZSANYIKNÉ BARNA
1957
István MARSCHEK
1957
Gábor Ferencné MISKÓ
1950
Győzőné MOLNÁR
1954
Jánosné NAGY
1938
József NAGY
1965
Zoltánné NAGY
1972
Zoltán Zsolt NÉMETH
1974
Tamás NYÉKI
1979
István Pál ORLIK
1950
Imre PALKÓ
1950
Zsuzsa PATONÁNÉ FARAGÓ
1946
József RÁBA
1953
Lászlóné SÁGI
1932
Erika SOLYMOSNÉ TURNER
1963
Gábor STEINBEISZER
1981
János STEINBEISZER
1983
Aladárné SÜLI
1946
Zoltán SZEMENKÁR
1941
Józsefné SZILÁGYI
1945
Judit SZŐLŐS-GECSE
1975
Béla TOPLAK
1962
Katalin TÓTHNÉ MOLNÁR
1976
István VASINKA
1955
József Ernő VINCZE
1955
Józsefné VÍZKELETI
1925
László VÖRÖS
1966
Mónika Andrea WOHNER
1969
Barbalics István
Budapest
15/05/2024
28/02/2024
2,000
[1] Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.