Interim Resolution CM/ResDH(2023)264

Execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights

Catan and Others group against Russian Federation

(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 21 September 2023 at the 1475 th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)

Application

Case

Judgment of

Final on

43370/04+

CATAN AND OTHERS [1]

19/10/2012

Grand Chamber

30003/04

BOBEICO AND OTHERS 2

23/10/2018

23/10/2018

40942/14

IOVCEV AND OTHERS 2

17/09/2019

17/09/2019

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”),

Recalling that although the Russian Federation ceased to be a High Contracting Party to the Convention on 16 September 2022, it remains bound by obligations under the Convention, including to implement judgments of the Court, in accordance with Article 58 of the Convention, recalling further that the Committee of Ministers continues to supervise the execution of the judgments and friendly settlements concerned (Resolution of 22 March 2022 of the Court and Resolution CM/Res(2022)3 ), deeply deplored that no information has been provided by the authorities for the present meeting;

Insisting on the fundamental importance of primary and secondary education for each child’s personal development and future success and on the pupils’ right to continue to receive education in the language of their country, which is also their mother tongue, without hindrance, in accordance with Article 2 of Protocol No. 1;

Recalling that in addition to the payment of the just satisfaction, the measures for the execution of these judgments include the revocation of the “regulatory framework” at the origin of the violations, the return of the Latin-script schools to their former premises or to alternative premises adequate for the educational process, and measures to eliminate the harassment and intimidation of the pupils, parents and staff members;

FIRMLY REITERATED its insistence on the unconditional obligation of every respondent State, under Article 46, paragraph 1, of the Convention, to abide by final judgments in cases to which it is a party;

DEEPLY DEPLORED ONCE AGAIN that notwithstanding the repeated calls for execution of these judgments by the Committee and its Interim Resolutions CM/ResDH(2014)184 , CM/ResDH(2015)46 , CM/ResDH(2015)157 and CM/ResDH(2020)183 , the Russian authorities have not paid the just satisfaction and default interest accrued, nor have they submitted an action plan;

STRONGLY EXHORTED AGAIN the Russian authorities to pay the just satisfaction and the default interest accrued and to provide an action plan setting out their concrete proposals as regards the execution of these judgments without any further delay;

DECIDED to resume consideration of this group of cases at its DH meeting in March 2024.

[1] Case against the Russian Federation and the Republic of Moldova but the European Court found no violation in respect of the Republic of Moldova.