SECOND SECTION

DECISION

Application no . 1067/15 Darko KLOBUÄŒAR against Croatia and 2 other applications (see list appended)

The European Court of Human Rights (Second Section) sitting on 1 March 2016 as a Committee composed of:

Jon Fridrik Kjølbro , President, Ksenija Turković , Georges Ravarani , judges,

and Abel Campos , Deputy Section Registrar ,

Having regard to the above applications lodged on dates set out in appendix ,

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

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

A list of the applicants is set out in the appendix.

The Croatian Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, M s Å . Sta ž nik .

The applicants complained under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention about the excessive length of civil proceedings . In the applications no. 1067/15 and 5122/15 the applicants also complained under Article 13 of the Convention about the ineffectiveness of the domestic length-of-proceedings remedies.

On the dates set out in the appendix, the parties signed friendly settlement declarations, under which each applicant agreed to waive any further claims against Croatia in respect of the facts giving rise to his or its application against an undertaking by the Government to pay them sums set out in the appendix to cover any non-pecuniary damage as well as costs and expenses . The amounts will be converted into Croatian kunas at the rate applicable on the date of payment, and will be free of a ny taxes that may be applicable. Each sum 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 s within the said three-month period, the Government undertook to pay simple interest on each unpaid sum , 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

Given that the three applications at hand concern the same facts and complains and raise identical issues under the Convention, the Court decides to join them, pursuant to Rule 42 § 1 of the Rules of the Court.

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 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 24 March 2016 .

Abel Campos Jon Fridrik Kjølbro              Deputy Registrar President

APPENDIX

No.

Application no.

Lodged on

Applicant date of birth

Place of residence

Type o f the domestic proceedings

Date of the applicant ’ s friendly-settlement declaration

Date of Government ’ s friendly-settlement declaration

Friendly settlement sum (in euros)

1067/15

30 / 12 /201 4

Darko KLOBUÄŒAR

25/03/1963

Kutina

Civil proceedings

03/11/2015

3 0/12 /2015

1 , 4 00

5122 /15

15 / 0 1/201 5

SONIK d.o.o .

Zadar

Civil proceedings

17/12/2015

08 / 01 /201 6

2 , 25 0

27657 /15

0 2 /0 6 /201 5

QUADRANS d.o.o .

Obrovac

Civil proceedings

03/11/2015

08 /0 1 /201 6

3 , 05 0