FIFTH SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 5687/08 by Liliya Gavrilovna LUZHNOVA against Ukraine

The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting on 22 September 2009 as a Chamber composed of:

Peer Lorenzen , President, Renate Jaeger , Karel Jungwiert , Rait Maruste , Mark Villiger , Zdravka Kalaydjieva , judges, Mykhaylo Buromenskiy , ad hoc judge, and Claudia Westerdiek, Section Registrar ,

Having regard to the above application lodged on 19 January 2008,

Having regard to the formal declarations accepting a friendly settlement of the c ase,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

PROCEDURE

The applicant, Ms Liliya Gavrilovna Luzhnova, is a Ukrainian national who was born in 1947 and lives in Torez. The Ukrainian Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Mr Yuriy Zaytsev.

On 29 April 2008 the Court decided to communicate the applicant ’ s complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 concerning the lengthy non-enforcement of the judgments given in her favour by the Torez Town Court on 21 August and 13 September 2004.

On 24 April 2009 the Court received friendly settlement declarations signed by the parties under which the applicant agreed to waive any further claims against Ukraine in respect of the facts giving rise to this application against an undertaking by the Government to pay her the debts according to the judgments of the Torez Town Court of 21 August and 13 September 2004 still owed to her. These debts would be payable within three months from the date of notification of the decision taken by the Court pursuant to Article 37 § 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights. In the event of failure to pay the debts within the said three-month period, the Government undertook to pay simple interest on them, 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. The payment would 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 public policy reasons to justify a continued examination of the application (Article 37 § 1 in fine of the Convention) .

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.

             Claudia Westerdiek Peer Lorenzen Registrar President