FIFTH SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 47431/11
Volodymyr Ivanovych SOFIYUK against Ukraine
and 11 other applications
(see list appended)
The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting on 3 March 2016 as a Committee composed of:
Khanlar Hajiyev, President,
André Potocki,
Síofra O’Leary, judges,
and Hasan Bakırcı, 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’ complaints under Articles 6 § 1 and 13 of the Convention concerning the excessive length of criminal proceedings and the lack of any effective remedy in domestic law were communicated to the Ukrainian Government (“the Government”).
The Court received friendly-settlement declarations under which the applicants agreed to waive any further claims against Ukraine 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 24 March 2016.
Hasan BakırcıKhanlar Hajiyev
Acting Deputy RegistrarPresident
APPENDIX
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 / household
(in euros)[i]
47431/11
20/07/2011
Volodymyr Ivanovych SOFIYUK
08/05/1949
20/10/2015
29/10/2015
1,200
38844/13
31/05/2013
Stepan Fedorovich ROPITSKIY
26/12/1957
20/10/2015
25/08/2015
1,200
55372/13
23/08/2013
Mykola Mykolayovych KUCHUK
08/02/1961
20/10/2015
23/10/2015
1,200
63864/13
17/09/2013
Igor Aleksandrovich DUDNIK
05/08/1971
20/10/2015
02/10/2015
1,500
72644/13
13/11/2013
Vitaliy Anatoliyovych METALNIKOV
12/05/1989
20/10/2015
27/10/2015
500
1169/14
15/12/2013
Vasyl Ivanovych SHEVCHUK
03/04/1973
20/10/2015
01/10/2015
3,600
27892/14
28/02/2014
Tetyana Grygorivna DASHKOVSKA
13/11/1970
20/10/2015
05/08/2015
2,400
47096/14
21/06/2014
Margaryta Valentynivna BERSHADSKA
22/06/1971
20/10/2015
18/08/2015
2,400
69907/14
23/10/2014
Yuriy Nikolayevich DANILCHENKO
10/08/1980
20/10/2015
27/10/2015
1,200
74356/14
17/01/2015
Olena Mykhaylivna KOMPANIYETS
19/05/1964
20/10/2015
11/09/2015
800
11744/15
24/02/2015
Vladyslav Petrovych IVANOV
05/08/1988
20/10/2015
09/09/2015
500
12525/15
07/03/2015
Valeriy Anatolyevich BANDURKO
01/02/1958
20/10/2015
09/10/2015
2,400
[i] Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.
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