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ĐOKIĆ AND OTHERS v. SERBIA

Doc ref: 10859/13;17721/13;18252/13;18254/13;18260/13;19933/13;25390/13;47624/13;50758/13 • ECHR ID: 001-144384

Document date: April 15, 2014

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ĐOKIĆ AND OTHERS v. SERBIA

Doc ref: 10859/13;17721/13;18252/13;18254/13;18260/13;19933/13;25390/13;47624/13;50758/13 • ECHR ID: 001-144384

Document date: April 15, 2014

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THIRD SECTION

DECISION

Application no . 10859/13 Žarko ĐOKIĆ against Serbia and 8 other applications (see list appended)

The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting on 15 April 2014 as a Committee composed of:

Ján Šikuta, President, Dragoljub Popović, Iulia Antoanella Motoc, judges,

and Marialena Tsirli, Deputy Section Registrar,

Having regard to the above applications lodged between 22 January 2013 and 30 April 2013,

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

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

The applicants ’ personal details are set out in the appended table. They are all represented before the Court by Ms S. Jokić, a lawyer practising in Čačak. The Serbian Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Ms V. Rodić.

Without invoking any Article of the Convention , the applicants complained about the respondent State ’ s failure to enforce final court decisions rendered in their favour against the same socially/State-owned company. The applicants also obtained decisions of the Constitutional Court of Serbia according to which the Constitutional Court held that the applicants had suffered a breach of their constitutional rights, awarded them certain sums as compensation for non-pecuniary damage and ordered the competent courts to bring the impugned enforcement proceedings to a conclusion as soon as possible. However, the final court judgments under consideration in this case remain unenforced to the present day. The essential information as to the domestic proceedings in respect of each application is indicated in the appended table.

Between 3 October 2013 and 16 December 2013 the Court received friendly settlement declarations signed by the parties under which the applicants agreed to waive any further claims against Serbia in respect of the facts giving rise to these applications against an undertaking by the Government to pay each of them 2,000 EUR (two thousand euros) less any amounts which may have already been paid on the basis of the relevant Constitutional Court ’ s decision to cover any non-pecuniary damage as well as costs and expenses, which would be converted into local currency at the rate applicable on the date of payment, and would be free of any taxes that may be applicable. These sums would be payable within three months from the date of notification of the decision taken by the Court. In the event of failure to pay these sums 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 parties, furthermore, agreed that within the said three-month period the Government would pay, from their own funds, the sums awarded in the domestic decisions under consideration in the present cases (see table appended), less any amounts which may have already been paid on the basis of the said decisions, plus the costs of the domestic enforcement proceedings. These payments will constitute the final resolution of the cases pending before the European Court of Human Rights.

THE LAW

The Court considers that, in accordance with Rule 42 § 1 of the Rules of Court, the applications should be joined, given their similar factual and legal background.

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 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.             

Marialena Tsirli Ján Å ikuta Deputy Registrar President

APPENDIX

No.

Application

no. and date of introduction

Applicant name

date of birth

nationality

Final domestic decision details

(the seat of the relevant court and the date of the decision )

The date of the e nforcement order

Constitutional Court decision details, amount awarded as a compensation for non-pecuniary damage

10859/13

22/01/2013

Žarko ĐOKIĆ

30/03/1954

Serbian

Čačak

25/06/2008

17/09/2008

Už-1453/2010 of 6 November 2012

400 Euros

17721/13

19/02/2013

Aleksandar ARSENIJEVIĆ

26/08/1967

Serbian

Čačak

28/02/2008

04/11/2008

Už-1703/2010 of 6 November 2012

400 Euros

18252/13

19/02/2013

Milenija KULAŠEVIĆ

08/01/1950

Serbian

Čačak

28/02/2008

04/11/2008

Už-1703/2010 of 6 November 2012

400 Euros

18254/13

19/02/2013

Stajka ERIĆ

04/05/1959

Serbian

Čačak

28/02/2008

04/11/2008

Už-1703/2010 of 6 November 2012

400 Euros

18260/13

19/02/2013

Dragan DELIĆ

29/01/1967

Serbian

Čačak

28/02/2008

04/11/2008

Už-1703/2010 of 6 November 2012

400 Euros

19933/13

04/03/2013

Blagoje RADIVOJEVIĆ

02/01/1948

Serbian

Čačak

17/11/2006 (first instance)

16/05/ 2007 (second instance)

19/11/ 2007

26 /12/2008

Už-1746/2010 of 14 November 2012

500 Euros

25390/13

04/03/2013

Vida MIRKOVIĆ

08/02/1958

Serbian

Čačak

17/11/2006 (first instance)

16/05/ 2007 (second instance)

19/11/ 2007

26 /12/2008

Už-1746/2010 of 14 November 2012

500 Euros

47624/13

28/03/2013

Tomislav DRAŠKOVIĆ

15/03/1955

Serbian

Čačak

29/09/2008

03/02/2009

Už-1575/2010 of 15 November 2012

300 Euros

50758/13

30/04/2013

Radojko STANIŠIĆ

16/06/1944

Serbian

Čačak

21/02/2008

27/10/2008

Už-1632/2010 of 13 December 2012

400 Euros

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