FOURTH SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 32010/18
Mária KISS and Roland Peter KISS-BERECZKI against Hungary
and 9 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting on 29 September 2020 as a Committee composed of:
Stéphanie Mourou-Vikström, President,
Georges Ravarani,
Jolien Schukking, judges,
and Liv Tigerstedt, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,
Having regard to the above applications lodged on the various dates 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 and their representatives is set out in the appended table.
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”). In some of the applications, complaints based on the same facts were also communicated under Article 13 of the Convention.
The Court received the friendly-settlement declarations under which the applicants agreed to waive any further claims against Hungary 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 payment 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 22 October 2020.
Liv TigerstedtStéphanie Mourou-Vikström
Acting Deputy RegistrarPresident
APPENDIX
List of applications raising complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention
(excessive length of civil proceedings)
No.
Application no.
Date of introduction
Applicant’s name
Date of birth /
Date of registration
Representative’s name and location
Other complaints under well-established case-law
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/household
(in euros)[1]
32010/18
29/06/2018
Mária KISS
10/05/1944
Roland Péter KISS-BERECZKI
27/04/1969
Csőzik László
Budapest
11/03/2019
15/07/2020
7,000
2412/20
20/12/2019
Anna ORSÓS
07/06/1973
03/08/2020
02/07/2020
7,800
10214/20
07/02/2020
Sándor BARSI
27/07/1965
24/07/2020
19/06/2020
5,100
13167/20
28/02/2020
Árpád SOVÁK
03/08/1963
31/08/2020
17/07/2020
5,200
13758/20
21/02/2020
PARIS TEXAS VENDÉGLÁTÓ KFT
23/11/2006
Baltay Levente
Gyál
10/07/2020
03/08/2020
9,100
14255/20
24/02/2020
Attila Levente BAUER
24/01/1964
Fenesi Enikő
Budapest
02/09/2020
23/07/2020
3,300
14276/20
11/03/2020
Tamás FORRÓ
28/02/1971
Kollár Károly
Budapest
23/07/2020
30/06/2020
3,300
15742/20
20/03/2020
Ferenc József SCHINDLER
10/01/1957
01/09/2020
07/09/2020
14,300
18594/20
17/04/2020
Household
PAPP ÉS TÁRSA KFT
21/10/1996
Éva PERPÉKNÉ PAPP
15/07/1980
Karsai Dániel András
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings
29/08/2020
03/07/2020
9,100
20375/20
30/04/2020
Andrea TÓVÁRINÉ CSILLAG
30/01/1973
Karsai Dániel András
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings
28/08/2020
06/07/2020
10,400
[1] Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.
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