SECOND SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 37805/19
Stojanka MILEVSKA and others against North Macedonia
and 7 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (Second Section), sitting on 2 June 2022 as a Committee composed of:
Branko Lubarda, President,
Pauliine Koskelo,
Gilberto Felici, judges,
and Viktoriya Maradudina, 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 is set out in the appended table.
The applicants were represented by Ms D. Chakarovska-Grozdanovska, a lawyer practising in Skopje.
The applicants’ complaint under Article 6 of the Convention concerning the length of bankruptcy proceedings was communicated to the Government of North Macedonia (“the Government”).
The Court received the friendly-settlement declarations, signed by the parties, under which the applicants agreed to waive any further claims against North Macedonia 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 23 June 2022.
Viktoriya Maradudina Branko Lubarda
Acting Deputy Registrar President
APPENDIX
List of applications raising complaints under Article 6 of the Convention
(excessive length of civil proceedings)
No.
Application no.
Date of introduction
Applicant’s name
Year of birth
Representative’s name and location
Date of receipt of Government’s declarations
Date of receipt of Applicants’ declarations
Amount awarded for non-pecuniary damage and costs and expenses
per each applicant
(in euros)[1]
37805/19
10/07/2019
(12 applicants)
Stojanka MILEVSKA
1951
Vladanka ANGELOVSKA
1955
Marika PEJOSKA
1949
Mare MIRCHESKA
1959
Kiro MIRCHESKI
1958
Ljubica STEFANOVSKA
1963
Dobrinka BLAZHEVSKA
1958
Verica GEROVSKA
1961
Persa PANEVSKA
1954
Dafa KOSTOVA
1957
Liljana RISTOVSKA
1961
Todorche TODEVSKI
1968
Danche Chakarovska-Grozdanovska
Skopje
16/03/2022
11/03/2022
750
7537/20
27/01/2020
(10 applicants)
Trajanka STOJANOVSKA
1949
Dragica PAVLOVSKA
1949
Ljubica ANTONOVA
1956
Dimitrija MARINCHEVSKI
1948
Sasho TRAJANOVSKI
1966
Zora DIMOVSKA
1949
Gjorgji SHTERJOV
1956
Grana PANCHEVSKA
1960
Lozanka MARKOVIKJ
1951
Ubavka GJIREVSKA
1962
7846/20
31/01/2020
(7 applicants)
Zoran ANASTASOV
1962
Menka ILIOSKA
1954
Risto PETKOVSKI
1942
Mile ALEKSOVSKI
1955
Zorica ALEKSOVSKA
1960
Borche VANESKI
1960
Donka IVANOVA
1949
9162/20
10/02/2020
(8 applicants)
Zhivka TANEVSKA
1952
Blage STOJANOVSKI
1949
Blagica CHAVKOSKA
1949
Anka SAVESKA
1946
Zoran KRSTEVSKI
1956
Bona JOVANOVSKA
1959
Jagoda MIHAJLOSKA
1958
Lidija GROZDANOVSKA
1960
12110/20
25/02/2020
(3 applicants)
Zara BOZHINOVSKA
1946
Stojanka SMILESKA
1950
Gordana PETKOVSKA
1964
13335/20
03/03/2020
(9 applicants)
Pavlina RISTESKA
1963
Dafinka MITROVSKA
1946
Igor MALCEV
1969
Kosara NIKOLOVSKA
1948
Kjamil JAKUPI
1947
Petar PREMCHESKI
1942
Cvetanka DUMALOSKA
1954
Dimitar CVETANOSKI
1941
Vesna NIKOLOVA
1956
14511/20
13/03/2020
(10 applicants)
Violeta VELICHKOVSKA
1963
Rosana KRSTEVSKA
1957
Cveta BOZHINOVSKA
1955
Zhaklina DONEVSKA
1965
Lepa BOGEVSKA
1966
Violeta NESHIKJ
1964
Bisera GJORGJEVIKJ
1967
Branko PETROVSKI
1966
Spase FILIPOVSKI
1950
Ilija STOJANOVSKI
1951
15660/20
23/03/2020
(5 applicants)
Olga PITROPOVSKA
1951
Zhivka UGROVA
1951
Olgica KOCEVSKA
1955
Snezhanka GUDUMANOVSKA
1954
Tomislav MILEVSKI
1966
[1] Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.