BÍRÓ AND OTHERS v. HUNGARY
Doc ref: 68337/14;20000/19;20016/19;25741/19;29592/19;37017/19;37020/19;40245/19;46355/19 • ECHR ID: 001-200644
Document date: December 12, 2019
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FOURTH SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 68337/14 Zoltán BÍRÓ against Hungary and 8 other applications
( s ee appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting on 12 December 2019 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 application s lodged on the various dates indicated in the appended table,
Having regard to the formal declaration s accepting a friendly settlement of the case s ,
Having deliberated, decides as follows:
FACTS AND PROCEDURE
The list of applicant s 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 applicant s 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 case s 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 16 January 2020 .
Liv Tigerstedt Stéphanie Mourou-Vikström Acting Deputy Registrar President
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
(in euros) [i]
68337/14
07/10/2014
Zoltán BÍRÓ
11/07/1963
Pivarnyikné Juhász Emőke
Budapest
04/11/2019
12/03/2018
2,500
20000/19
02/04/2019
Eva Snejana KOVATCH
10/10/1958
Karsai Dániel András
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law against the protraction of the civil proceedings in Hungary.
19/11/2019
18/09/2019
11,700
20016/19
01/04/2019
Eva Snejana KOVATCH
10/10/1958
Karsai Dániel András
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law against the protraction of the civil proceedings in Hungary
19/11/2019
18/09/2019
7,800
25741/19
08/05/2019
Sarolta KRISTÓ
01/02/1967
Baráth Lívia
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law against the protraction of the civil proceedings in Hungary
20/11/2019
10/10/2019
2,600
29592/19
28/05/2019
Krisztina VILLÁNYI
14/08/1970
Kiss Dániel Bálint
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law against the protraction of the civil proceedings in Hungary
19/11/2019
20/09/2019
2,600
37017/19
28/06/2019
Viktor FISCH
20/01/1971
Szüts Ágnes
Budapest
07/11/2019
24/09/2019
8,500
37020/19
27/06/2019
Ádám László GRISZTEL
21/12/1973
Gyuris Ágnes
Budapest
08/11/2019
08/11/2019
5,200
40245/19
22/07/2019
Béla János HORVÁTH
23/05/1958
Horváthné Nagy Ildikó
Budapest
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law against the protraction of the civil proceedings in Hungary
22/10/2019
24/09/2019
5,200
46355/19
27/08/2019
(3 applicants)
István VASENSZKY
19/06/1951
Erzsébet SZÉKELYNÉ FARKAS
27/04/1958
Nóra SZATHURYNÉ RUSZTHI
14/04/1970
Kecskés Ákos Zoltán
Hódmezővásárhely
Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law against the protraction of the civil proceedings in Hungary
14/11/2019
14/11/2019
6,500
[i] . Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants.
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