Resolution CM/ ResDH (2020)181

Execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights

Three cases against Poland

(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 3 September 2020 at the 1377bis meeting of the Ministers ’ Deputies)

Application No.

Case

Judgment of

Final on

47395/09

BUKOWSKI AND OTHERS

06/12/2018

06/12/2018

32045/10

CHRISTIAN BAPTIST CHURCH IN WROCLAW

05/04/2018

05/07/2018

28604/03

LORENC

15/09/2009

15/12/2019

The Committee of Ministers, under the terms of Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which provides that the Committee supervises the execution of final judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Convention” and “the Court”),

Having regard to the final judgments transmitted by the Court to the Committee in these cases and to the violations established on account of the excessive length of proceedings before administrative courts and bodies;

Recalling the respondent State ’ s obligation, under Article 46, paragraph 1, of the Convention, to abide by all final judgments in cases to which it has been a party and that this obligation entails, over and above the payment of any sums awarded by the Court, the adoption by the authorities of the respondent State, where required:

- of individual measures to put an end to violations established and erase their consequences so as to achieve as far as possible restitutio in integrum ; and

- of general measures preventing similar violations;

Having invited the government of the respondent State to inform the Committee of the measures taken to comply with the above-mentioned obligation;

Having examined the information provided by the government confirming the payment of the just satisfaction awarded by the Court;

Considering that the question of individual measures was resolved, given that the domestic proceedings have been terminated;

Recalling that the question of the general measures required to respond to the shortcomings established by the Court in the present judgments continues to be examined in the context of the Beller group of cases and that the closure of these judgments is without prejudice in any way to the Committee ’ s assessment of the general measures necessary to ensure the expeditiousness proceedings before administrative bodies and courts and the effectiveness of the domestic remedies,

DECLARES that it has exercised its functions under Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention in these cases as regards the individual measures and

DECIDES to close the examination of these cases.