FOURTH SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 14894/19
Csaba SZERVONSZKY against Hungary
and 9 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting on 13 February 2020 as a Committee composed of:
Stéphanie Mourou-Vikström, President,
Georges Ravarani,
Jolien Schukking, 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 and their representatives is set out in the appended table.
The applicants’ complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention concerning the excessive length of civil proceedings were communicated to the Hungarian Government (“the Government”). In some of the applications, complaints based on the same facts were also communicated under Article 13 of the Convention.
The Court received friendly-settlement declarations under which the applicants agreed to waive any further claims against Hungary 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 March 2020.
Liv TigerstedtStéphanie Mourou-Vikström
Acting Deputy RegistrarPresident
APPENDIX
List of applications raising complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention
(excessive length of civil proceedings)
No.
Application no.
Date of introduction
Applicant’s name
Date of birth
Representative’s name and location
Other complaints under well-established case-law
Date of receipt of Government’s 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)[1]
14894/19
12/03/2019
Csaba SZERVONSZKY
02/02/1976
Gerencsér Éva
Budapest
17/10/2019
14/01/2020
3,900
19992/19
02/04/2019
Péter GYÁRFÁS
02/01/1956
21/11/2019
20/01/2020
3,900
23311/19
12/04/2019
György DERGEZ
04/02/1960
Rózsa Attila
Budapest
09/10/2019
22/01/2020
10,400
30026/19
27/05/2019
Gabriella KISES
27/03/1959
14/11/2019
15/01/2019
2,000
41588/19
31/07/2019
Róbert Károly THURÓCZY
20/09/1974
Karsai Dániel András
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings
06/01/2020
10/01/2020
2,600
43854/19
10/08/2019
Gabriella ROSNERNÉ KINDERNAY
13/10/1970
Kmetty Ildikó
Vác
08/01/2020
07/01/2020
13,000
44069/19
10/08/2019
Ivett SZALISZNYÓ
10/03/1993
Kmetty Ildikó
Vác
08/01/2020
07/01/2020
13,000
46618/19
28/08/2019
László VELKEI
30/05/1962
Pataki Norbert András
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of civil proceedings
28/01/2020
11/11/2019
2,600
46625/19
25/08/2019
(3 applicants)
Household
Gábor TÓTH
02/04/1983
Balázs TÓTH
02/04/1982
János HORVÁTH
22/06/1951
Csáki Éva
Székesfehérvár
10/12/2019
22/01/2020
2,000
48718/19
10/09/2019
Tamás SIPOS
25/06/1981
Szegedi Zsolt
Nyíregyháza
28/01/2020
05/12/2019
2,000
[1]. Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.
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