FIRST SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 49457/21 CIRKEVNÝ ZBOR EVANJELICKEJ CIRKVI AUGSBURSKÉHO VYZNANIA NA SLOVENSKU BRATISLAVA

against Slovakia

(see appended table)

The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 24 March 2022 as a Committee composed of:

Raffaele Sabato, President, Alena Poláčková, Davor Derenčinović, judges,

and Viktoriya Maradudina, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,

Having regard to the above application lodged on 4 October 2021,

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

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

The details of the applicant, a Slovak religious entity, are set out in the appended table.

The applicant was represented by Mr V. Janíček, a lawyer practising in Bratislava.

The applicant’s complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention concerning the excessive length of administrative proceedings were communicated to the Slovak Government (“the Government”). Complaints based on the same facts were also communicated under other provisions of the Convention.

The Court received the friendly-settlement declarations, signed by the parties, under which the applicant agreed to waive any further claims against Slovakia in respect of the facts giving rise to this application, subject to an undertaking by the Government to pay it the amounts detailed in the appended table. These amounts 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 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 the Protocols thereto and finds no reasons to justify a continued examination of the application.

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 in accordance with Article 39 of the Convention.

Done in English and notified in writing on 14 April 2022.

Viktoriya Maradudina Raffaele Sabato Acting Deputy Registrar President

APPENDIX

Application raising complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention

(excessive length of administrative proceedings)

Application no. Date of introduction

Applicant’s name

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

per applicant

(in euros) [1]

Amount awarded for costs and expenses per application

(in euros) [2]

49457/21

04/10/2021

CIRKEVNÝ ZBOR EVANJELICKEJ CIRKVI AUGSBURSKÉHO VYZNANIA NA SLOVENSKU BRATISLAVA

Vladimír Janíček

Bratislava

Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of proceedings.

24/02/2022

17/02/2022

2,600

250[1] Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicant.

[2] Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicant.