FIRST SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 32038/17 Grzegorz Jacek SKOWROŃSKI against Poland

The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 23 October 2018 as a Committee composed of:

Ksenija Turković , President, Krzysztof Wojtyczek , Armen Harutyunyan, judges,

and Abel Campos, Section Registrar ,

Having regard to the above application lodged on 24 April 2017,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

1. The applicant, Mr Grzegorz Jacek Skowroński , is a Polish national, who was born in 1975 and is detained in Brzeg Prison. He was represented before the Court by Ms J. Grudzień , residing in Będzin .

2. The Polish Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Ms J. Chrzanowska, and subsequently by Mr J. Sobczak , of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

3. The applicant complained under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention about the excessive length of criminal proceedings and under Article 13 of the Convention about the lack of redress for the excessive length of proceedings.

4. After the Government had been given notice of the application, they informed the Court that the matter raised in it had been identical to the issues complained of in the application no. 67847/12, lodged by the same applicant.

5. On 9 August 2018 the applicant informed the Court that both applications indeed concerned the same set of proceedings pending against him since 29 December 2009.

6. The Court notes that in the application no. 67847/12 the Government made a unilateral declaration acknowledging a violation of Article 6 § 1 on account of the excessive length of proceedings and violation of Article 13 on account of the lack of an effective remedy, and offered payment of just satisfaction. On 10 July 2018 the Court took note of that declaration and found it appropriate to strike the cas e out of the list of cases (see Siwińska v. Poland and 28 other applications ( dec. ), no. 19320/09 , 10 July 2018).

7. The Court thus accepts the Government ’ s argument that the subject matter of the present application is the same and had been covered by the unilateral declaration in the case no. 67847/12 accepted by the Court on 10 July 2018.

THE LAW

8. In the light of the above, the Court considers that the matter has been resolved within the meaning of Article 37 § 1 (b) of the Convention and that respect for human rights as defined in the Convention and its Protocols does not require it to continue the examination of the application under Article 37 § 1 in fine .

9. Accordingly, the case should be struck out of the list.

For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,

Decides to strike the application out of its list of cases.

Done in English and notified in writing on 15 November 2018 .

Abel Campos Ksenija Turković Registrar President