FOURTH SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 57385/13
Gyula Gergely TAMÁS against Hungary
and 9 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting on 13 December 2018 as a Committee composed of:
Georges Ravarani, President,
Marko Bošnjak,
Péter Paczolay, 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”).
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 17 January 2019.
Liv TigerstedtGeorges Ravarani
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
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]
57385/13
05/09/2013
Gyula Gergely Tamás
21/01/1951
29/10/2018
16/11/2018
8,000
73634/14
30/10/2014
Éva Nagy
28/02/1951
24/09/2018
09/03/2018
3,000
24793/15
11/05/2015
(5 applicants)
Household
István Dinnyés
17/01/1955
Daniel Dinnyes
23/03/1985
Márta Szijártó
20/12/1957
Household
György Hári
17/08/1945
Zsuzsanna Háriné Petró
25/12/1959
Magyar György
Budapest
21/11/2018
11/10/2018
12,000
24801/15
08/05/2015
Lászlóné Bali
27/07/1941
15/11/2018
22/06/2018
14,000
33484/15
02/07/2015
Miklós Bordás
11/07/1962
Lex Annamária
Budapest
05/11/2018
16/11/2018
6,000
9744/16
04/02/2016
Ferencné Dömötör
15/03/1951
Mihalics Krisztián
Budapest
14/11/2018
03/07/2018
3,000
21066/16
12/04/2016
Tamás Polgár
03/11/1976
19/11/2018
26/04/2018
2,000
22572/16
19/04/2016
Katalin Samu
26/06/1967
Pivarnyikné Juhász Emőke
Budapest
20/11/2018
17/04/2018
2,500
31105/16
19/05/2016
Krisztina Fekete-Pencz
25/10/1980
Sallay István
Budapest
20/11/2018
18/09/2018
9,000
32643/16
02/06/2016
Zoltán Szécsi
22/12/1977
Érdi Zsolt
Budapest
20/11/2018
20/06/2018
3,500
[1]. Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.
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