FOURTH SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 75732/14
Ioan-Doru MICLEA against Romania
and 4 other applications
(see list appended)
The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting on 1 December 2016 as a Committee composed of:
Vincent A. De Gaetano, President,
Egidijus Kūris,
Gabriele Kucsko-Stadlmayer, judges,
and Hasan Bakırcı, 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 is set out in the appended table.
The applicants’ complaints under Article 3 of the Convention concerning the inadequate conditions of detention were communicated to the Romanian Government (“the Government”).
The Court received friendly-settlement declarations under which the applicants agreed to waive any further claims against Romania 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 insofar as they relate to the inadequate conditions of detention.
The applicant in case no. 20243/15 also raised other complaints under various articles of the Convention. The Court has examined these complaints and considers that, in the light of all the material in its possession and in so far as the matters complained of are within its competence, these complaints either do not meet the admissibility criteria set out in Articles 34 and 35 of the Convention or do not disclose any appearance of a violation of the rights and freedoms enshrined in the Convention or the Protocols thereto.
It follows that this part of application no. 20243/15 must be rejected in accordance with Article 35 § 4 of the Convention.
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 insofar as they concern the inadequate conditions of detention;
Declares the remainder of application no. 20243/15 inadmissible.
Done in English and notified in writing on 20 December 2016.
Hasan BakırcıVincent A. De Gaetano
Deputy RegistrarPresident
APPENDIX
List of applications raising complaints under Article 3 of the Convention
(inadequate conditions of detention)
No.
Application no.
Date of introduction
Applicant name
Date of birth
Date of receipt of Government declaration
Date of receipt of Applicant’s declaration
Amount awarded for pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage and costs and expenses
per applicant
(in euros)[i]
75732/14
16/02/2015
Ioan-Doru MICLEA
09/09/1955
24/10/2016
26/09/2016
5,300
20243/15
14/05/2015
Iordan BĂDEANU
27/12/1935
25/08/2016
26/10/2016
3,000
46508/15
12/10/2015
Ionuț Aurel MANEA
20/01/1979
24/10/2016
13/06/2016
5,900
48826/15
22/09/2015
Adrian-Nicolae LUPU
01/08/1982
24/10/2016
20/10/2016
3,900
3895/16
12/02/2016
Victor CEOROMELA
10/08/1958
05/10/2016
17/06/2016
3,000
[i] Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.
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