CEDH · CASELAW;DECISIONS;ADMISSIBILITY;ENG — 23 septembre 2010

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padding-left:4.9pt } .sC734D8F0 { width:18%; border-top:1pt solid #c0c0c0; border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0; padding-right:4.9pt; padding-left:4.9pt } .sB217F55D { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; font-size:8pt } .sF6A12959 { width:33%; height:1px; text-align:left } .s85226119 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; font-size:10pt } .s653E6C45 { font-family:Arial; font-size:6.67pt; vertical-align:super; color:#0069d6 }   FIRST SECTION DECISION This version was rectified on 6 October 2010 under Rule 81 of the Rules of the Court Application no. 41446/02 and 67 other applications by Sergey Aleksandrovich SHEVCHENKO and Others against Russia The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 23   September 2010 as a Chamber composed of:   Christos Rozakis, President,   Nina Vajić,   Anatoly Kovler,   Elisabeth Steiner,   Khanlar Hajiyev,   Giorgio Malinverni,   George Nicolaou, judges, and André Wampach, Deputy Section Registrar, Having regard to the above applications, 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 applications out of the list of cases and the applicants' replies to those declarations, Having deliberated, decides as follows: PROCEDURE The applicants are 80 Russian nationals whose names and dates of birth are tabulated below. The Russian Government (“the Government”) were 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. The applicants sued the State authorities in domestic courts for payment of various monetary sums due under the Russian law. The courts held for the applicants and ordered the authorities to pay various amounts in the form of lump sums and/or of periodic payments to be upgraded in line with the inflation in the country. These judgments became binding but the authorities delayed their enforcement. COMPLAINTS The applicants complained about the delayed enforcement of the judgments in their favour and, in certain cases, of assorted faults that allegedly accompanied the judicial or enforcement proceedings. In some of the applications other complaints under various Articles of the Convention are also raised. THE LAW Following the Burdov (no. 2) pilot judgment cited above the Government informed the Court of the payment of the domestic court awards in the applicants' favour and submitted unilateral declarations aimed at resolving the issues raised by the applications. By these declarations the Russian authorities acknowledged in various but very similar terms that judgments in the applicants' favour were not enforced in a timely manner ( e.g. “the excessive duration of the enforcement”, “the delay in the enforcement” or “the lengthy enforcement”). They also declared that they were ready to pay the applicants ex gratia the sums tabulated below. The remainder of the declarations read as follows: “The authorities therefore invite the Court to strike [the applications] 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.” Some applicants agreed to the terms of the Government's declarations. A majority of the applicants disagreed, considering that the compensation amounts offered by the Government were insufficient. 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). The Court is satisfied that the excessive length of the execution of judgments in the applicants' favour is acknowledged by the Government either explicitly or in substance. The Court also notes that the compensations offered are comparable with Court awards in similar cases, taking account, inter alia , of the specific delay(s) in each particular case (see Burdov (no. 2) , cited above, §§ 99 and 154). The Court therefore considers that it is no longer justified to continue the examination of the applications. It is also 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 applications. Accordingly, the applications should be struck out of the list, insofar as their non-enforcement complaints are concerned. As to the other complaints lodged by some of the applicants under various Articles of the Convention, in the light of all the material in its possession, and in so far as the matters complained of are within its competence, the Court finds that they do not disclose any appearance of a violation of the rights and freedoms set out in the Convention or its Protocols. It follows that this part of the applications are manifestly ill-founded and must be rejected in accordance with Article 35 §§ 3 and 4 of the Convention. For these reasons, the Court unanimously Takes note of the terms of the respondent Government's declarations; Decides to join the applications; Decides to strike the applications in respect of non-enforcement of the judgments in the applicants' favour out of its list of cases; Declares the remainder of the applications inadmissible.   André Wampach   Christos Rozakis   Deputy Registrar   President APPENDIX     Appl. no. Last name Forename Born Compensation offered (euros)              41446/02 SHEVCHENKO SERGEY ALEKSANDROVICH 1959 600              24381/03 KALININA TATYANA BORISOVNA 1962 1,200              MALOVA YELENA ALEKSEYEVNA 1976 1,200              GALTSEV MIKHAIL YURYEVICH 1963 1,200              3508/04 ZHOGIN ANATOLIY MIKHAILOVICH   4,000              34103/04 ABAYEV YURIY UZBEKOVICH 1959 1,634              TSORIYEV VIKTOR MAGOMETOVICH 1961 1,555              AVSANOV KHARITON TAZEYEVICH 1959 1,650              ALBEGOV MARAT KAZBEKOVICH 1970 1,600           ALBOROV ZAUR MIKHAYLOVICH 1960 1,698           AMBALOV KAZBEK VLADIMIROVICH 1959 1,940           GORYAYNOV NIKOLAY IVANOVICH 1954 1,510           DZHIOYEV KAZBEK GRAFOVICH 1951 1,449           ZASEYEV IBRAGIM GUBEYEVICH 1966 1,667           KOVALEV SERGEY VASILYEVICH 1973 1,548           TUAYEV ZURAB SHALVOVICH 1959 1,425           36496/04 YEVLANOVA LYUDMILA VASILYEVNA 1946 1,680           42684/04 YELISEYEV ALEKSANDR FEDOROVICH 1940 3,786           43467/04 DEMYANENKO VASILIY VLADIMIROVICH 1960 1,500           4672/05 PAVLOV VYACHESLAV ALEKSEYEVICH 1981 1,148           19180/05 BAKHINSKIY ALEKSANDR VYACHESLAVOVICH 1956 1,700           22180/05 SHISHOV SERGEY BORISOVICH 1951 923           25511/05 GVOZDEV SERGEY ALEKSANDROVICH 1971 1,600           43136/05 SAMOYLOVA VERA GEORGIYEVNA 1937 3,000           43208/05 KLYKOVA NATALYA NIKOLAYEVNA 1955 1,330 [1]           45685/05 KUDELIN VIKTOR POLIKARPOVICH 1959 1,260           504/06 STRELTSOV VIKTOR LVOVICH 1934 2,600           6552/06 NEDAVNIY YURIY ALEKSANDROVICH 1965 1,479           12747/06 MOISEYEV ALEKSANDR GRIGORYEVICH 1956 1,810           14501/06 BELAN VLADIMIR GRIGORYEVICH 1938 790           19063/06 ORLOV YURIY ALEKSEYEVICH 1964 2,645           19096/06 SHMAKOV ALEKSEY PETROVICH 1949 4,827           22627/06 KRASNOSLOBODTSEV YURIY VLADIMIROVICH 1960 1,970           22630/06 MUKHIN NIKOLAY SERGEYEVICH 1961 1,300           27128/06 VORONKOV PETR IVANOVICH 1955 1,960           30438/06 YARENKO ANATOLIY SERGEYEVICH 1948 1,085           32424/06 ATAYAN PALMIRO APETNAKOVICH 1949 2,247           44825/06 SOBOLEVA NADEZHDA MIKHAYLOVNA 1967 4,000           50529/06 GUSAKOV ALEKSANDR ALEKSANDROVICH 1976 1,650           2336/07 PONOMAREV ALEKSANDR VASILYEVICH 1953 1,517           2666/07 BURCHIKOV GENNADIY NIKOLAYEVICH 1956 1,382           4547/07 TKACHENKO VLADIMIR VIKTOROVICH 1963 995           5412/07 KASHPEROV VALERIY GRIGORYEVICH 1954 958 [2]           6541/07 KAMAYEV VALENTIN MIKHAYLOVICH 1948 1,350           19223/07 BORISOVA TAMARA ALEKSEYEVNA 1958 1,780           BORISOV ALEKSANDR IVANOVICH 1951   25310/07 BORISOV ALEKSANDR IVANOVICH 1951           19517/07 FINKLER SERGEY ALEKSANDROVICH 1969 1,046           19578/07 LOZOVOY FEDOR FEDOROVICH 1943 861           19960/07 KUZNETSOV IVAN VASILYEVICH 1956 921           19968/07 VASILYEV NIKOLAY IVANOVICH 1949 800           22637/07 IVANOVA NATALYA SERGEYEVNA 1981 5,000           28437/07 OSOVSKIY NIKOLAY ALEKSANDROVICH 1945 702           29960/07 ALEKSEYENKO SERGEY VLADIMIROVICH 1951 756           30461/07 RYABOKON VALERIY IVANOVICH 1960 700           32340/07 STOVBUL KONSTANTIN KONSTANTINOVICH 1952 823           32342/07 ALEKSEYCHUK VLADIMIR STEPANOVICH 1951 690           36860/07 PURYATKIN FEDOR ALEKSEYEVICH 1949 710           38534/07 TSAP VLADIMIR IVANOVICH 1959 1,600           44561/07 BARMA VASILIY PETROVICH 1948 995           44867/07 SAFONOV YEVGENIY NIKOLAYEVICH 1948 3,236           44879/07 ZHIRNOV NIKOLAY BORISOVICH 1963 982           55317/07 KOZIY GEORGIY YURYEVICH 1951 923           55331/07 BELOUSOV SERGEY IVANOVICH 1953 960           55604/07 GUREYEV GENNADIY GENNADYEVICH 1961 4,900           56122/07 VOLOSHCHENKO GENNADIY VALENTINOVICH 1970 4,800           79/08 SIDOROV PETR ILYICH 1948 655           326/08 SULEYMANOV SHAKHRUTDIN ABDRASHITOVICH 1955 1,550           3716/08 KOTOV ALEKSANDR VASILYEVICH 1948 900           5105/08 KISELEV VIKTOR VASILYEVICH 1950 900           9478/08 RADOVNYA NIKOLAY SERAFIMOVICH 1956 712           10608/08 ZHURBA DMITRIY VLADIMIROVICH 1948 825           10670/08 SIROTIN NIKOLAY IVANOVICH 1951 885           38027/08 ZOLOYEV STANISLAV SERGEYEVICH 1956 2,300           39217/08 MAKAROVA VALENTINA NIKOLAYEVNA 1953 750           52350/08 MAKAROV FEDOR IVANOVICH 1948 750           59369/08 TERNOVOY KONSTANTIN VIKTOROVICH 1982 3,200           59888/08 MASHUKOV ARTUR SHAFIGOVICH 1976 3,200           60729/08 KOLTSOV MIKHAIL YURYEVICH 1970 3,700           60995/08 SHADOV RUSLAN KIMOVICH 1978 3,200           1724/09 BOGDANOV DMITRIY YURYEVICH 1970 2,100     [1]   Rectified on 6 October 2010: the amount was “1,200” [2] Rectified on 6 October 2010: the amount was “956”