SECOND SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 75872/17
Rade SAVIĆ against Serbia
and 7 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (Second Section), sitting on 15 October 2020 as a Committee composed of:
Carlo Ranzoni, President,
Branko Lubarda,
Pauliine Koskelo, 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 is set out in the appended table.
The applicants were represented by Mr M. Rajković, a lawyer practising in Belgrade.
The applicants’ complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention concerning the excessive length of civil and/or administrative proceedings were communicated to the Serbian Government (“the Government”).
The Court received the friendly-settlement declarations 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 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 5 November 2020.
Liv TigerstedtCarlo Ranzoni
Acting Deputy RegistrarPresident
APPENDIX
List of applications raising complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention
(excessive length of civil and/or administrative proceedings)
No.
Application no.
Date of introduction
Applicant’s name
Date 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
75872/17
20/10/2017
Rade SAVIĆ
29/08/1961
15/06/2020
09/03/2020
3,000
250
20652/18
26/04/2018
Zoran SPASIĆ
03/05/1957
15/06/2020
09/03/2020
3,400
250
31213/18
20/06/2018
Mirčeta MILOVANOVIĆ
19/06/1960
Dragan BEŽANOVIĆ
02/10/1960
15/06/2020
09/03/2020
4,600
250
51848/18
12/10/2018
Goran AKSENTIJEVIĆ
26/06/1971
04/08/2020
09/03/2020
2,900
250
30935/19
03/06/2019
Momčilo BRKIĆ
07/06/1944
15/06/2020
09/03/2020
2,500
250
41366/19
25/07/2019
Ljubiša MIJAJLOVIĆ
02/10/1963
15/06/2020
09/03/2020
1,500
250
54451/19
10/10/2019
Savko VARINAC
02/05/1967
14/04/2020
09/03/2020
1,200
250
54963/19
10/10/2019
Darko GAŠIĆ
05/10/1981
14/04/2020
09/03/2020
2,100
250
[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.
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