FIRST SECTION

DECISION

Applications nos. 33991/02, 15177/05, 9768/06, 14194/06, 49674/06, 55308/07, 55310/07, 55316/07, 56334/07, 1418/08, 3188/08, 3201/08, 9470/08 and 39188/08 by Boris Vyacheslavovich KRUTOV and Nadezhda Vasilyevna KRUTOVA and Others against Russia

The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 14 December 2010 as a Chamber composed of:

Christos Rozakis , President, Nina Vajić , Anatoly Kovler , Khanlar Hajiyev , Dean Spielmann , Sverre Erik Jebens , George Nicolaou , judges, and Søren Nielsen , Section Registrar ,

Having regard to the above applications ,

Having regard to the decision to apply the pilot-judgment procedure taken in the case of Burdov (no. 2) v. Russia (no. 33509/04, ECHR 2009-...),

Having regard to the declarations submitted by the respondent Government requesting the Court to strike the applications out of its list of cases and the applicants ' replies to those declarations,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

THE FACTS

The applicants are Russian nationals whose names and years of birth are tabulated in the annex. The Russian Government (“the Government”) were represented by Mr G. Matyushkin, the Representative of the Russian Federation at the European Court of Human Rights.

The facts of the case, as submitted by the parties, may be summarised as follows.

The applicants obtained final and enforceable domestic judicial decisions awarding to them various monetary sums, payable by the State or from the State funds. The authorities delayed the full enforcement of those binding judgments.

COMPLAINTS

The applicants complained mainly about the delayed enforcement of the final and enforceable domestic judgments rendered in their favour.

THE LAW

1. Following the pilot judgment in Burdov (no. 2) , cited above, the Government informed the Court of the payment of the domestic court awards in the applicants ' favour and submitted unilateral declarations. They acknowledged the excessive length of the enforcement of the final and enforceable judgments in the applicants ' favour. They also declared their intention to pay the applicants monetary sums, tabulated in the annex, as just satisfaction in this respect. They went on to invite the Court to strike the cases out of its list of cases. The remainder of their declarations read as follows:

“ The sum referred to above, which is to cover any pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage as well as costs and expenses, 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 pursuant to Article 37 § 1 of the [Convention]. In the event of failure to pay this sum within the said three-month period, the Government undertake to pay simple interest on it from 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.

This payment will constitute the final resolution of the case ” .

While certain applicants agreed with the sum proposed in the Government ' s declarations in their respective cases, some of t he m disagreed claiming the amount of monetary just satisfaction offered insufficient .

The Court reiterates that under Article 37 § 1 (c) it is empowered to strike a case out of its list if:

“for any other reason established by the Court, it is no longer justified to continue the examination of the application”.

The Court recalls that it ordered the Russian Federation to grant redress to all victims of non-payment or unreasonably delayed payment by State authorities of a judgment debt in their favour who had lodged their applications with the Court before 15 January 2009 ( Burdov (no. 2) , cited above, §§ 144-145).

Having examined the terms of the Government ' s declarations, the Court understands them as intending to give the applicants redress in line with the Burdov (no. 2) pilot judgment.

The Court is satisfied that the excessive length of the enforcement of the final judgments in the applicants ' favour is acknowledged by the Government. It also notes that the compensation offered is comparable with Court awards in similar cases.

The Court therefore considers that it is no longer justified to continue the examination of the applications; it is also satisfied that respect for human rights as defined in the Convention (Article 37 § 1 in fine ) does not require it to continue the examination of the present applications (see Sobol and Others v. Russia (dec.), nos. 11373/03 et al. , 24 June 2010).

Accordingly, the present applications should be struck out of the Court ' s list of cases.

As regards the question of implementation of the Government ' s undertakings, the Committee of Ministers remains competent to supervise this matter in accordance with Article 46 § 2 of the Convention (see the Committee ' s Interim Resolution CM/ResDH(2009)158 of 3 December 2009). In any event the Court ' s present ruling is without prejudice to any decision it might take to restore, pursuant to Article 37 § 2 of the Convention, the present applications to its list of cases (see Sobol and Others , cited above).

2. Some of the applicants raised some additional complaints with reference to various Articles of the Convention and its Protocols.

In light of all the material in its possession and in so far as the matters complained of are within its competence the Court finds that those complaints do not disclose any appearance of violations of the rights and fundamental freedoms set out in the Convention and its Protocols.

It follows that the applications in this part are manifestly ill-founded and must be rejected in accordance with Article 35 §§ 3 and 4 of the Convention.

For these reasons, the Court unanimously

Decides to join the applications;

Decides to strike the applications out of its list of cases in so far as the non-enforcement complaints are concerned;

Declares the remainder of the applications inadmissible.

Søren Nielsen Christos Rozakis Registrar President

ANNEX

No.

Surname

First name and patronymics

Year of birth

Amount of compensation offered by the Government

33991/02

KRUTOV

KRUTOVA

Boris V yacheslavovich

Nadezhda Vasilyevna

1951

1950EUR 810 (to be paid to the second applicant)

15177/05

NECHAYEV

Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich

1956EUR 1,400

9768/06

MASLOVICH

Eduard Nikolayevich

1935EUR 1,983

14194/06

BOBKIN

Ivan Ivanovich

1943EUR 2,761

49674/06

SAKHAROV

Sergey Borisovich

1937EUR 1,500

55308/07

MATVEYEV

Sergey Ivanovich

1945EUR 800

55310/07

ZERNYUKOV

Anatoliy Alekseevich

1940EUR 900

55316/07

ANIKEYEV

Aleksandr Vasilyevich

1949EUR 1,000

56334/07

ROMANOV

Valeriy Yevgenyevich

1948EUR 750

1418/08

DMITRIYEV

Nikolay Pavlovich

1952EUR 800

3188/08

KHOMENKO

Leonid Yevgenyevich

1957EUR 800

3201/08

BARSUKOV

Vladimir Valentinovich

1952EUR 900

9470/08

ZARATUYEV

Aleksey Stepanovich

1954EUR 3,330

39188/08

KOLTASHEV

Viktor Borisovich

1944EUR 2,895