SECOND SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 34855/21
Vladan KOCIĆ against Serbia
and 13 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (Second Section), sitting on 22 September 2022 as a Committee composed of:
Jovan Ilievski, President,
Gilberto Felici,
Diana Sârcu, judges,
and Viktoriya Maradudina, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,
Having regard to the above applications lodged on the date indicated in the appended table,
Having regard to the formal declarations accepting a friendly settlement of the cases,
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 S. Aleksić, a lawyer practising in Niš.
The applicants’ complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 concerning the non-enforcement of domestic decisions given against socially/State-owned companies were communicated to the Serbian Government (“the Government”).
The Court received the friendly-settlement declarations, signed by the parties, under which the applicants agreed to waive any further claims against Serbia in respect of the facts giving rise to these applications, subject to an undertaking by the Government to pay them the amounts detailed in the appended table. These amounts 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 these amounts within the above-mentioned three-month period, the Government undertake to pay simple interest on them, 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 Government also undertake to ensure the enforcement of the domestic decisions under consideration in the cases concerned (see appended table) within the same three-month period, and to pay any costs of the domestic enforcement proceedings.
The payment and the enforcement of the domestic decisions in the cases concerned will constitute the final resolution of the cases.
THE LAW
Having regard to the similar subject matter of the applications, the Court finds it appropriate to examine them jointly in a single decision.
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 applications.
In view of the above, it is appropriate to strike the cases out of the list.
For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,
Decides to join the applications;
Decides to strike the applications out of its list of cases in accordance with Article 39 of the Convention.
Done in English and notified in writing on 13 October 2022.
Viktoriya Maradudina Jovan Ilievski
Acting Deputy Registrar President
APPENDIX
List of applications raising complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1
(non-enforcement of domestic decisions given against socially/State-owned companies)
No.
Application no.
Date of introduction
Applicant’s name
Year of birth
Date of receipt of Government’s declaration
Date of receipt of Applicant’s declaration
Amount awarded for non-pecuniary damage per applicant
(in euros)1 2
Amount awarded for costs and expenses per application
(in euros)3
34855/21
25/06/2021
Vladan KOCIĆ
1968
15/06/2022
01/08/2022
1,000
250
34863/21
25/06/2021
Sreten PERIĆ
1975
15/06/2022
01/08/2022
1,000
250
34866/21
25/06/2021
Nada ĐORĐEVIĆ
1959
15/06/2022
01/08/2022
1,000
250
34872/21
25/06/2021
Sasa ĐURIĆ
1970
15/06/2022
01/08/2022
1,000
250
35172/21
25/06/2021
Radomir MILIVOJEVIĆ
1956
15/06/2022
01/08/2022
1,000
250
35174/21
25/06/2021
Žaklina RISTIĆ
1973
15/06/2022
01/08/2022
1,000
250
35175/21
25/06/2021
Dragan PANIĆ
1956
15/06/2022
01/08/2022
1,000
250
35176/21
25/06/2021
Dragan NIKODIJEVIĆ
1967
15/06/2022
01/08/2022
1,000
250
35177/21
25/06/2021
Saša FILIP
1971
15/06/2022
01/08/2022
1,000
250
35179/21
25/06/2021
Slavko DELJANIN
1956
15/06/2022
01/08/2022
1,000
250
35180/21
25/06/2021
Milina TALIJAN
1955
15/06/2022
01/08/2022
1,000
250
35181/21
25/06/2021
Snežana ILIJIĆ
1969
15/06/2022
01/08/2022
1,000
250
35182/21
25/06/2021
Jelena KOSTIĆ
1980
15/06/2022
01/08/2022
1,000
250
35183/21
25/06/2021
Vladan NEŠIĆ
1973
15/06/2022
01/08/2022
1,000
250
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1 Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.
2 Less any amounts which may have already been paid in that regard at the domestic level.
3 Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.