Resolution CM/ResDH(2021)425

Execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights

Gorodovych against Ukraine

(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

71050/11

Gorodovych

19/01/2017

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 established;

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 and the addendum provided by the government, indicating the 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)944 and DH-DD(2021)976 );

Considering that the question of individual measures was therefore resolved, given the efforts taken by the authorities to rectify the omissions of the initial investigation following the Court’s judgment, which led to the conclusion of the lack of elements of a criminal offence;

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 Arskaya v. Ukraine group of cases, and that the closure of this case therefore in no way prejudges the Committee’s evaluation of the general measures required;

Having satisfied itself that all the measures required by Article 46, paragraph 1, have been adopted,

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

DECIDES to close the examination thereof.