FIRST SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 3666/06
Anatoliy Anatolyevich OSTROUSHKO against Russia
and 11 other applications
(see list appended)
The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 9 December 2014 as a Committee composed of:
Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska, President,
Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque,
Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos, judges,
and André Wampach, Deputy Section Registrar,
Having regard to the above applications,
Having regard to the decision to apply the pilot-judgment procedure taken in the case of Burdov v. Russia (no. 2) (no. 33509/04, ECHR 2009),
Having regard to the declarations submitted by the Government and the applicants’ acceptance of their terms,
Having deliberated, decides as follows:
FACTS AND PROCEDURE
A list of the applicants is set out in the appendix.
The Russian Government (“the Government”) were represented by Mr G. Matyushkin, Representative of the Russian Federation at the European Court of Human Rights.
The applicants complained under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 about the delayed enforcement of judgments of domestic courts delivered in their favour.
By letters dated 11 January 2013 the Government informed the Court that they proposed to make declarations with a view to resolving the issues raised by the applications. They acknowledged the violation of the applicants’ rights in connection with delayed enforcement of the judgments delivered in their favour and stated their readiness to pay to the applicants the sums set out in the appendix as just satisfaction. The payments were to cover any pecuniary and non‑pecuniary damage, together with any costs and expenses incurred, and will be free of any taxes that may be chargeable. They would be effected within a period of three months from the date of notification of the decision taken by the Court. In the event of failure to pay within that period, the Government undertook to pay simple interest on them, from 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 payments would constitute the final resolution of the cases.
In their letters the applicants informed the Court that they agreed to the terms of the Government’s declarations.
THE LAW
Given that the applications at hand concern similar facts and complaints and raise identical issues under the Convention, the Court decides to join them.
The Court considers that in each case the applicant’s express agreement to the terms of the declaration made by the Government shall be considered as a friendly settlement between the parties (see Cēsnieks v. Latvia (dec.), no. 9278/06, § 34, 6 March 2012, and Bakal and Others v. Turkey (dec.), no. 8243/08, 5 June 2012) as to the delayed enforcement of the judgment in favour of the applicants.
The Court therefore takes note of the friendly settlement reached between the parties in each case. It is satisfied that the settlement is based on respect for human rights as defined in the Convention and its Protocols and finds no reasons to justify a continued examination of the applications.
As regards the question of implementation of the Government’s undertakings, the Committee of Ministers remains competent to supervise this matter in accordance with Article 46 of the Convention (see the Committee’s decisions of 14-15 September 2009 (CM/Del/Dec(2009)1065) and Interim Resolution CM/ResDH(2009)158 concerning the implementation of the Burdov (no. 2) judgment). In any event the Court’s present ruling is without prejudice to any decision it might take to restore, pursuant to Article 37 § 2 of the Convention, any of the applications to the list of cases (see E.G. v. Poland and 175 other Bug River applications (dec.), no. 50425/99, § 29, ECHR 2008 (extracts)).
In view of the above, it is appropriate to strike the cases out of the list in accordance with Article 39 of the Convention as to the delayed enforcement of the judgment in favour of the applicants.
As for the applicants’ accessory complaints in the applications nos. 35568/08 and 21606/07 referring to various Articles of the Convention, in the light of all the material in its possession, and in so far as the matters complained of are within its competence, the Court finds that they do not disclose any appearance of a violation of the rights and freedoms set out in the Convention or its Protocols.
It follows that these parts of the applications are manifestly ill-founded and must be rejected in accordance with Article 35 §§ 3 and 4 of the Convention.
For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,
Decides to join the applications;
Decides to strike out of its list of cases in accordance with Article 39 of the Convention the applications in the parts concerning the complaints about the delayed enforcement of the judgments in favour of the applicants;
Declares the remainder of the applications nos. 35568/08 and 21606/07 inadmissible.
André WampachMirjana Lazarova Trajkovska
Deputy RegistrarPresident
APPENDIX
No
Application No
Lodged on
Applicant
Date of birth
Place of residence
Represented by
Unilateral remedial offer
3666/06
24/11/2005
Anatoliy Anatolyevich OSTROUSHKO
27/01/1957
Rostov-na-Donu
1,110 euros (EUR)
2728/07
04/12/2006
Lidiya Nikandrovna LISITSINA
07/05/1934
Obninsk
EUR 830
4304/07
11/12/2006
Vyacheslav Ivanovich SHMELEV
30/11/1959
Petrovskoye
EUR 680
4305/07
11/12/2006
Aleksandr Vyacheslavovich KOLOBOV
10/09/1956
Sestrenka
EUR 680
5677/07
30/11/2006
Nikolay Ivanovich KOZYRKOV
28/03/1964
Pokrovskoye
EUR 680
6198/07
11/12/2006
Oleg Vladimirovich KAPCHINSKIY
28/11/1961
Petrovskoye
EUR 680
21606/07
31/03/2007
Nikita Sergeyevich KARPENKO
07/09/1986
Belgorod
Galina Pavlovna KARPENKO
24/12/1958
Belgorod
EUR 693
29731/07
21/05/2007
Valentina Ivanovna BUGAYCHUK
26/01/1947
Petrovskaya
Vasiliy Vasiliyevich BOROVIKOV
EUR 1,452
Tatyana Vasilyevna TROTSKAYA
07/06/1955
Slavyansk-na-Kubani
EUR 1,516
Alla Fedorovna STEPANENKO
01/01/1948
Slavyansk-na-Kubani
EUR 1,489
Svetlana Alekseyevna KARENKO
27/11/1960
Slavyansk-na-Kubani
EUR 1,635
Lidiya Ivanovna POTAPOVA
23/02/1950
Slavyansk-na-Kubani
EUR 1,473
35568/08
22/04/2008
Anatoliy Borisovich BOGDANOV
Pskov
Anastasiya Ivanovna BOGDANOVA
Pskov
Nikolay Vasilyevich SHERSHNEV
EUR 3,738 (non-pecuniary damage to each applicant); plus 55,979.2 Russian roubles (RUB) (pecuniary damage to each applicant)
36841/08
24/06/2008
Dmitriy Ivanovich GOROKHOV
06/02/1952
Moscow
EUR 678
37123/08
28/05/2008
Artur Alikovich SOLONINA
05/01/1977
Norilsk
EUR 2,362
20478/13
21/03/2008
Svetlana Ivanovna FEFLOVA
28/06/1953
Voronezh
Ilya Vladimirovich SIVOLDAYEV
EUR 6,762 (non-pecuniary damage); plus
RUB 3,691.11 (pecuniary damage)
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