Resolution CM/ResDH(2021)321

Execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights

Pantalon against Croatia

(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 2 December 2021

at the 1419 th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)

Application No.

Case

Judgment of

Final on

2953/14

PANTALON

19/11/2020

19/02/2021

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 judgment transmitted by the Court to the Committee in this case and to the violation of the applicant’s right not to be punished without law due to his conviction, in 2010, for the minor offence of failing to declare a diving speargun when crossing the State border, an act which had not constituted an offence under domestic law (violation of Article 7);

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 judgment including the information provided regarding the payment of the just satisfaction awarded by the Court (see document DH-DD(2021)1003 );

Considering that the question of individual measures in this case was resolved given that the just satisfaction awarded covered the fine and the costs of the proceedings the applicant had been ordered to pay, as well as the value of the confiscated speargun;

Recalling that the question of general measures required in response to the shortcomings found by the Court in the present judgment continues to be examined within the framework of the Žaja group of cases and that the closure of this case therefore in no way prejudges the Committee’s evaluation of the general measures required ;

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

DECIDES to close the examination of this case.