THIRD SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 8125/12
Svetlana Fedorovna VORONOVA
against Russia
The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting on 6 November 2018 as a Committee composed of:
Branko Lubarda, President,
Pere Pastor Vilanova,
Georgios A. Serghides, judges,
and Fatoş Aracı, Deputy Section Registrar,
Having regard to the above application lodged on 11 January 2012,
Having regard to the formal declarations accepting a friendly settlement of the case,
Having deliberated, decides as follows:
FACTS AND PROCEDURE
The applicant, Ms Svetlana Fedorovna Voronova, is a Russian national, who was born in 1941 and lives in the town of Slobodskoy.
The Russian Government (“the Government”) were represented by Mr M. Galperin, the Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Court of Human Rights.
The applicant complained to the Court, without invoking any particular Article of the Convention, that domestic authorities had failed to undertake reasonable practical efforts to notify her of her son’s death. As a result she had been unaware of the death for a long time and had been stripped of an opportunity to give him the proper burial.
On 9 August and 17 September 2018 the Court received friendly settlement declarations signed by the parties under which the applicant agreed to waive any further claims against Russia in respect of the facts giving rise to this application against an undertaking by the Government to pay her 10,000 (ten thousand) euros to cover any pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage as well as costs and expenses, which will be converted into Russian roubles at the rate applicable on the date of payment, and will be free of any taxes that may be applicable. It will be payable within three months from the date of notification of the decision taken by the Court. In the event of failure to pay this sum within the said three-month period, the Government undertook to pay simple interest on it, 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 case.
THE LAW
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 its Protocols and finds no reasons to justify a continued examination of the application. In view of the above, it is appropriate to strike the case out of the list.
For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,
Decides to strike the application out of its list of cases in accordance with Article 39 of the Convention.
Done in English and notified in writing on 29 November 2018.
Fatoş AracıBranko Lubarda
Deputy RegistrarPresident
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