Resolution CM/ResDH(2022)45

Execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights

Three cases against Bulgaria

(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 9 March 2022

at the 1428 th meeting of the Ministers' Deputies)

Application No.

Case

Judgment of

Final on

5516/05

NEDELCHEVA AND OTHERS

28/08/2013

66491/14

PANAYOTOV

17/11/2020

17/11/2020

66993/13

RASHEVA

13/10/2020

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 unjustified delays in complying with judgments and administrative decisions recognising the applicants’ rights to restitution of agricultural land collectivised during the communist era or to compensation thereof (violations of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1)

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 action plan provided by the government indicating the individual measures adopted to give effect to the judgments including the information provided regarding the payment of the just satisfaction awarded by the Court (see document DH-DD(2022)153 );

Considering that the question of individual measures was therefore resolved, given that the domestic restitution procedures have been terminated

Recalling that the question of general measures required in response to the shortcomings found by the Court in the present judgments continues to be examined within the framework of the Lyubomir Popov and the Sivova and Koleva groups of cases and that the closure of these cases therefore in no way prejudges the Committee’s evaluation of the general measures examined in these groups;

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

DECIDES to close the examination of these cases.