CEDH · CASELAW;DECISIONS;ADMISSIBILITY;ENG — 11 mai 2010

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .s523616E0 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:12pt; text-align:center; font-size:14pt } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .s51D316E0 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:12pt; text-align:center; font-size:11pt } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } .s8229ABDD { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:12pt; text-align:center } .s10950C61 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:14.2pt; text-align:justify } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt } .sB9D5CABB { width:28.35pt; display:inline-block } .s967D43C6 { margin-top:36pt; margin-bottom:12pt; text-align:justify; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; font-size:14pt } .s9D48DD53 { margin-top:6pt; margin-left:21.25pt; margin-bottom:6pt; text-indent:7.1pt; text-align:justify; font-size:10pt } .s88A92475 { margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:14.2pt; text-align:justify; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid } .sE256019B { margin-top:12pt; margin-left:14.2pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid } .s7CB9076 { margin-top:36pt; margin-bottom:0pt; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid } .s507451D6 { width:4.53pt; display:inline-block } .s4A0CEAF8 { width:194.77pt; display:inline-block } .s7602FED2 { width:18.21pt; display:inline-block } .sC1AC44A4 { width:228.11pt; display:inline-block } .s9BD430F6 { margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid } .s58B8AE49 { clear:both; mso-column-break-before:always } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .sE3D66594 { border:0.75pt solid #000000; border-collapse:collapse } .s41E9DBF5 { border-right-style:solid; border-right-width:0.75pt; border-bottom-style:solid; border-bottom-width:0.75pt; padding-right:5.03pt; padding-left:5.03pt; vertical-align:top } .s598389F7 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center; font-size:10pt } .s24AC208E { border-right-style:solid; border-right-width:0.75pt; border-left-style:solid; border-left-width:0.75pt; border-bottom-style:solid; border-bottom-width:0.75pt; padding-right:5.03pt; padding-left:5.03pt; vertical-align:top } .s2240EDC9 { margin-top:0pt; margin-right:1.65pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center; font-size:10pt } .sF004B676 { border-left-style:solid; border-left-width:0.75pt; border-bottom-style:solid; border-bottom-width:0.75pt; padding-right:5.03pt; padding-left:5.03pt; vertical-align:top } .sB30C44B0 { border-top-style:solid; border-top-width:0.75pt; border-right-style:solid; border-right-width:0.75pt; border-bottom-style:solid; border-bottom-width:0.75pt; padding-right:5.03pt; padding-left:5.03pt; vertical-align:top } .s6B505E72 { margin:0pt; padding-left:0pt } .s94D66C7F { margin-left:31.34pt; text-align:center; padding-left:4.66pt; font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt } .sC3AB69A { border-style:solid; border-width:0.75pt; padding-right:5.03pt; padding-left:5.03pt; vertical-align:top } .s2EB42ED2 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt } .s7E0455F { margin-top:0pt; margin-right:1.65pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt } .s8EB5F569 { font-family:Arial; font-size:6.67pt; vertical-align:super } .s2342A031 { border-top-style:solid; border-top-width:0.75pt; border-left-style:solid; border-left-width:0.75pt; border-bottom-style:solid; border-bottom-width:0.75pt; padding-right:5.03pt; padding-left:5.03pt; vertical-align:top } .sD761D19 { margin-left:36pt; text-align:center; font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt } .s4D3D447C { height:3.25pt } .s653E6C45 { font-family:Arial; font-size:6.67pt; vertical-align:super; color:#0069d6 } .s7ED160F0 { text-decoration:none } .s546C9D04 { border-top-style:solid; border-top-width:0.75pt; border-right-style:solid; border-right-width:0.75pt; padding-right:5.03pt; padding-left:5.03pt; vertical-align:top } .s40B7A780 { border-top-style:solid; border-top-width:0.75pt; border-right-style:solid; border-right-width:0.75pt; border-left-style:solid; border-left-width:0.75pt; padding-right:5.03pt; padding-left:5.03pt; vertical-align:top } .s4F2EDFF { border-top-style:solid; border-top-width:0.75pt; border-left-style:solid; border-left-width:0.75pt; padding-right:5.03pt; padding-left:5.03pt; vertical-align:top } .sF6A12959 { width:33%; height:1px; text-align:left } .s85226119 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; font-size:10pt } FIRST SECTION DECISION This version was rectified on 25 June 2010 under Rule 81 of the Rules of the Court Application no. 3215/04 by Svetlana Borisovna ANISIMOVA and Others against Russia The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 11 May 2010 as a Chamber composed of:   Christos Rozakis, President,   Anatoly Kovler,   Elisabeth Steiner,   Dean Spielmann,   Sverre Erik Jebens,   Giorgio Malinverni,   George Nicolaou, judges, and Søren Nielsen, Section Registrar, Having regard to the above application lodged on 5 January 2004, Having regard to the decision to apply the pilot-judgment procedure taken in the case of Burdov v. Russia (no. 2) (no. 33509/04, ECHR 2009-...), Having regard to the declarations submitted by the respondent Government requesting the Court to strike the application out of the list of cases and the applicants' replies to those declarations, Having deliberated, decides as follows: THE FACTS The applicants are 42 Russian nationals living in the Ivanovo region. Their names and other details appear in the table below. The applicants are represented before the Court by Ms I. Sokolova, a lawyer practising in Ivanovo. The Russian Government (“the Government”) are represented by Mr   G. Matyushkin, the Representative of the Russian Federation at the European Court of Human Rights. The facts of the case, as submitted by the parties, may be summarised as follows. In 2002 and 2003 various domestic courts in the Ivanovo region allowed the applicants' civil claims relating to the authorities' failure to pay child allowances and ordered the Central Finance Department of the Ivanovo region to pay the arrears from the regional treasury. The details of the judgments and the amounts awarded in Russian Roubles (RUB) appear in the table below. The judgments became binding and enforceable but the authorities delayed their enforcement. COMPLAINTS The applicants complained under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 of the Convention about non-enforcement of the judgments in their favour. Under Article 13 of the Convention the applicants also complained about the lack of an effective remedy against continued non-enforcement of those judgments. THE LAW On 8 February 2010 the Government informed the Court that the judgments in the applicants' favour were executed in full with some delays ranging from one year and five months to two years and eight months. The Government also submitted declarations aimed at resolving the issue raised by the case. They requested the Court to strike out the application in accordance with Article 37 of the Convention. In so far as relevant, the declarations read as follows: “[T]he Russian authorities acknowledge the lengthy enforcement of the judgment[s] [in the applicants' favour listed below]. The authorities are ready to pay the applicant[s] ex gratia [the sums tabulated below]. The authorities therefore invite the Court to strike the present case out of the list of cases. They suggest that the present declaration might be accepted by the Court as “any other reason” justifying the striking out of the case of the Court's list of cases, as referred to in Article 37 § 1 (c) of the Convention. The [sums tabulated below], which [are] to cover any pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage as well as costs and expenses, will be free of any taxes that may be applicable. [They] will be payable within three months from the date of notification of the decision taken by the Court pursuant to Article 37 § 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights. In the event of failure to pay [these sums] within the said three-month period, the Government undertake to pay simple interest on [them] from expiry of that period until settlement, at a rate equal to the marginal lending rate of the European Central Bank during the default period plus three percentage points. This payment will constitute the final resolution of the case.” By letter of 16 March 2010 the applicants agreed to the Government's offer. The Court reiterates that under Article 37 of the Convention it may at any stage of the proceedings strike an application out of its list of cases where the circumstances lead to the conclusions specified under (a), (b), or (c) of that Article. Article 37 § 1 (c) enables the Court in particular to strike a case out of its list if: “for any other reason established by the Court, it is no longer justified to continue the examination of the application.” Article 37 § 1 in fine states: “However, the Court shall continue the examination of the application if respect for human rights as defined in the Convention and the protocols thereto so requires.” The Court recalls that in its pilot judgment ( Burdov v. Russia (no. 2) , cited above) it recently ordered the Russian Federation to “grant [adequate and sufficient] redress, within one year from the date on which the judgment [became] final, to all victims of non-payment or unreasonably delayed payment by State authorities of a judgment debt in their favour who [had] lodged their applications with the Court before the delivery of the present judgment and whose applications [had been] communicated to the Government under Rule 54 § 2 (b) of the Rules of the Court.” In the same judgment the Court also held that “pending the adoption of the above measures, the Court [would] adjourn, for one year from the date on which the judgment [became] final, the proceedings in all cases concerning solely the non-enforcement and/or delayed enforcement of domestic judgments ordering monetary payments by the State authorities, without prejudice to the Court's power at any moment to declare inadmissible any such case or to strike it out of its list following a friendly settlement between the parties or the resolution of the matter by other means in accordance with Articles 37 or 39 of the Convention.” Having examined the terms of the Government's declarations, the Court understands them as intending to give the applicants redress in line with the pilot judgment (see Burdov   (no. 2) , cited above, §§ 127 and 145 and point 7 of the operative part). Having regard to the acknowledgement contained in the declarations together with the amounts of compensation proposed and taking note of the applicants' agreement with the Government's offers, the Court considers that it is no longer justified to continue the examination of the application. Moreover, the Court is satisfied that respect for human rights as defined in the Convention and the protocols thereto does not require it to continue the examination of the application. Accordingly, the application should be struck out of the list. As regards the question of implementation of the Government's undertakings, the Committee of Ministers remains competent to supervise this matter in accordance with Article 46 of the Convention (see the Committee's decisions of 14-15 September 2009 (CM/Del/Dec(2009)1065) and Interim Resolution CM/ResDH(2009)158 concerning the implementation of the Burdov   (no.   2) judgment). In any event the Court's present ruling is without prejudice to any decision it might take to restore, pursuant to Article 37 § 2 of the Convention, the present application to the list of cases (see E.G. v.   Poland (dec.), no. 50425/99, § 29, ECHR 2008 ‑ ... (extracts)). For these reasons, the Court unanimously Takes note of the terms of the respondent Government's declarations; Decides to strike the application out of its list of cases.   Søren Nielsen   Christos Rozakis   Registrar   President APPENDIX       No.   APPLICANT (YEAR OF BIRTH)     COURT   DATE(S) OF THE JUDGMENT(S)   COURT AWARD     COMPENSATION OFFERED BY THE GOVERNMENT     Ms Svetlana Borisovna Anisimova (1969) Justice of the Peace of the 1 st Court Circuit of the Leninskiy District of Ivanovo 18 April 2003 3,475.43 RUB 796 EUR   Ms Olga Sergeyevna Arkhipova (1965) Justice of the Peace of the 1 st Court Circuit of the Leninskiy District of Ivanovo 7 April 2003 4,545.28 RUB 810 EUR   Mr Sergey Borisovich Baranov (1956) Justice of the Peace of the 2 nd Court Circuit of the Leninskiy District of Ivanovo 25 April 2003 8,141.82 RUB 906 EUR   Ms Karine Melsikovna Bakhtigiryaeva (1968) Justice of the Peace of the 2 nd Court Circuit of the Leninskiy District of Ivanovo 25 April 2003 3,477.84 RUB 927 EUR   Ms Natalya Aleksandrovna Bayakina (1968) Justice of the Peace of the 2 nd Court Circuit of the Lezhnevo District of the Ivanovo Region 17 February 2003 8,241.45 RUB 882 EUR   Ms Svetlana Ivanovna Bolobonova (1964) Justice of the Peace of the 2 nd Court Circuit of the Lezhnevo District of the Ivanovo Region 24 March 2003 3,908.84 RUB 871 EUR   Ms Nadezhda Fedorovna Buranova (1960) Justice of the Peace of the 2 nd Court Circuit of the Lezhnevo District of the Ivanovo Region 25 February 2003 4,368.73 RUB 1,013 EUR   Ms Larisa Arkadyevna Generalova (1964) Justice of the Peace of the 1 st Court Circuit of the Leninskiy District of Ivanovo 18 April 2003 8,001.59 RUB 922 EUR   Ms Olga Petrovna Grigoryeva (1962) Justice of the Peace of the 2 nd Court Circuit of the Leninskiy District of Ivanovo 27 March 2003 8,975.73 RUB 954 EUR   Ms Natalya Vladimirovna Guseva (1954) Justice of the Peace of the 1 st Court Circuit of the Leninskiy District of Ivanovo 7 April 2003 3,417.52 RUB 810 EUR   Ms Nadezhda Vasilyevna Yefremova (1959) Justice of the Peace of the 1 st Court Circuit of the Leninskiy District of Ivanovo 7 April 2003 3,417.52 RUB 818 EUR   Ms Lyubov Vladilenovna Zyuzina (1958) Justice of the Peace of the 2 nd Court Circuit of the Leninskiy District of Ivanovo 27 March 2003 17,441.86 RUB 825 EUR   Ms Irina Vladimirovna Karaseva (1972) Justice of the Peace of the 2 nd Court Circuit of the Lezhnevo District of the Ivanovo Region 25 February 2003 4,766.92 RUB 27 EUR - pecuniary damage; 1,000 EUR - non-pecuniary damage; 500 RUB - costs and expenses   Ms Irina Nikolayevna Knyazeva (1966) Justice of the Peace of the 1 st Court Circuit of the Frunzenskiy District of Ivanovo 23 May 2003 6,742.43 RUB 876 EUR   Ms Lyubov Aleksandrovna Kozlova (1958) Justice of the Peace of the 2 nd Court Circuit of the Lezhnevo District of the Ivanovo Region 5 February 2003 2,372.15 RUB 892 EUR   Ms Marina Viktorovna Kolosnitsyna (1958) Justice of the Peace of the 1 st Court Circuit of the Frunzenskiy District of Ivanovo 10 June 2003 3,940.04 RUB 853 EUR   Ms Marina Borisovna Koltsova (1973) Justice of the Peace of the 1 st Court Circuit of the Leninskiy District of Ivanovo 18 April 2003 3,475.43 RUB 809 EUR   Ms Tatyana Fedorovna Kolycheva (1954) Justice of the Peace of the 2 nd Court Circuit of the Lezhnevo District of the Ivanovo Region 27 February 2003 3,563.02 RUB 21 EUR - pecuniary damage; 1,000 EUR - non-pecuniary damage; 500 RUB - costs and expenses   Ms Lyubov Yuryevna Kukushkina (1961) Justice of the Peace of the 2 nd Court Circuit of the Frunzenskiy District of Ivanovo 10 April 2003 8,231.36 RUB 934 EUR   Ms Vera Yuryevna Kuznechenkova (1959) Justice of the Peace of the 2 nd Court Circuit of the ezhnevo District of the Ivanovo Region 17 April 2003 9,083.64 RUB and 150 RUB 975 EUR   Ms Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Kurganova (1966) Justice of the Peace of the 1 st Court Circuit of the Frunzenskiy District of Ivanovo 20 March 2003 8,348.35 RUB 1,039 EUR   Ms Olga Nikolayevna Birina (formerly Lapshina) (1968) Justice of the Peace of the 3 rd Court Circuit of the Frunzenskiy District of Ivanovo 9 December 2002 4,065.72 RUB 694 EUR   Ms Larisa Lvovna Lobanova (1959) Justice of the Peace of the 1 st Court Circuit of the Leninskiy District of Ivanovo 7 April 2003 3,417.52 RUB 818 EUR   Ms Galina Vladimirovna Maksimova (1957) Justice of the Peace of the 2nd Court Circuit of the Leninskiy District of the village N.-Talitsy of the Ivanovo Region 8 April 2003 5,038,79 RUB 912 EUR   Ms Nadezhda Nikolayevna Mironycheva (1955) Justice of the Peace of the 1 st Court Circuit of the Leninskiy District of Ivanovo 20 February 2003 3,432.61 RUB 841 EUR   Ms Vera Ilyinichna Mishenkova (1957) Justice of the Peace of the 2 nd Court Circuit of the Lezhnevo District of the Ivanovo Region 29 January 2003 9,533.84 RUB 1,041 EUR   Ms Lyubov Vitalyevna Morozova (1960) Justice of the Peace of the 1 st Court Circuit of the Frunzenskiy District of Ivanovo 23 May 2003 6,742.43 RUB 877 EUR   Ms Valentina Vladimirovna Kirova (formerly Papukova) [1] (1962) Justice of the Peace of the 1 st Court Circuit of the Leninskiy District of Ivanovo 20 March 2003 5,314.58 RUB 841 EUR   Ms Yelena Vladimirovna Potapova (1963) Justice of the Peace of the 2 nd Court Circuit of Teykovo 8 April 2003 3,301.02 RUB 982 EUR   Ms Anna Dmitriyevna Prokopyeva (1962) Justice of the Peace of the 2 nd Court Circuit of the Leninskiy District of Ivanovo 25 April 2003 8,097.21 RUB 924 EUR   Mr Aleksey Gennadyevich Sidorov (1957) Justice of the Peace of the 2 nd Court Circuit of the Leninskiy District of Ivanovo 25 February 2003 3,975.88 RUB 880 EUR   Ms Galina Yuryevna Smirnova (1960) Justice of the Peace of the 1 st Court Circuit of the Leninskiy District of Ivanovo 19 February 2003 8,028.60 RUB 1,013 EUR   Ms Nataliya Dmitrievna Smirnova (1973) Justice of the Peace of the 1 st Court Circuit of the Leninskiy District of Ivanovo 20 March 2003 4,510.28 RUB 841 EUR   Ms Tatyana Petrovna Strunina (1962) Justice of the Peace of the 2 nd Court Circuit of the Leninskiy District of Ivanovo 25 April 2003 3,477.84 RUB 919 EUR   Mr Mikhail Yuryevich Sukhorukov (1957) Justice of the Peace of the 2 nd Court Circuit of the Lezhnevo District of the Ivanovo Region 5 February 2003 7,582.63 RUB 860 EUR   Ms Lidiya Vitalyevna Tikhanova (1957) Justice of the Peace of the 1 st Court Circuit of the Leninskiy District of Ivanovo 7 April 2003 4,545.28 RUB 817 EUR   Ms Valentina Anatolyevna Tychkova (1955) Justice of the Peace of the 2 nd Court Circuit of the Frunzenskiy District of Ivanovo 21 March 2003 4,005.52 RUB 840 EUR   Ms Tatyana Nikolayevna Uskova (1965) Justice of the Peace of the 2 nd Court Circuit of the Frunzenskiy District of Ivanovo 25 March 2003 4,151.06 RUB 957 EUR   Ms Irina Vladimirovna Filippova (1962) Justice of the Peace of the 2 nd Court Circuit of the Frunzenskiy District of Ivanovo 10 March 2003 6,197.32 RUB 975 EUR   Ms Vera Aleksandrovna Chelysheva (1954) Justice of the Peace of the 2 nd Court Circuit of the Frunzenskiy District of Ivanovo 19 March 2003 4,833.71 RUB 888 EUR   Ms Olga Valeryanovna Shvachkina (1962) Justice of the Peace of the 1 st Court Circuit of the Leninskiy District of Ivanovo 7 April 2003 8,399.32 RUB 816 EUR   Ms Svetlana Alekseyevna Shchegortseva (1964) Sovetskiy District Court of Ivanovo 9 April 2002 4,818.18 RUB 22 EUR - pecuniary damage; 1,000 EUR - non-pecuniary damage; 500 RUB - costs and expenses   [1] Rectified on 25 June 2010   : the text was “Ms Valentina Viktorovna Kirova (formerly Papukova)”