Communicated on 27 May 2020 Published on 15 June 2020

FOURTH SECTION

Application no. 53697/14 Aleksandar ANDONOV against Serbia lodged on 22 July 2014

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE

The present case concerns the non-enforcement of a final and enforceable judgment of 24 September 1999 granting the applicant contact rights with his children. Having been refused access to the children by his former wife, in November 2003 the applicant filed an enforcement request with the First Municipal Court in Belgrade and an enforcement order was issued. However, it would appear that no attempts at enforcement were ever made. On 16 January 2013 the proceedings were terminated because the children had reached the age when they could legally decide whether to maintain a personal relationship with the applicant. The Constitutional Court upheld that decision on 20 March 2014.

QUESTION TO THE PARTIES

Did the domestic courts take sufficient steps to enforce the judgment of 24 September 1999 in accordance with the requirements of Article 6 § 1 of the Convention (see, for example, Felbab v. Serbia , no. 14011/07, § 63, 14 April 2009, and Krivo šej v. Serbia , no. 42559/08, §§ 43-47, 13 April 2010)?