CEDH · CASELAW;COMMUNICATEDCASES;ENG — 26 mars 2024

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .s379BC09C { margin-top:36pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:right } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .s10950C61 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:14.2pt; text-align:justify } .s5E1364CA { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:12pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; font-size:14pt } .s339D85E6 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:14pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid } .s665E407E { margin-top:66pt; margin-bottom:14pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } .s5FFF0A75 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:7pt } .s6DB91820 { text-align:center } .s8BB62139 { margin-right:auto; margin-left:auto; border-collapse:collapse } .s3695F815 { border:0.75pt solid #949494; padding:1.02pt 5.03pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#dfdfdf } .s2EF62ED2 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt } .sEECE831 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; color:#474747 } .sE8934522 { border:0.75pt solid #949494; padding:1.02pt 5.03pt; vertical-align:top } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt } Published on 15 April 2024   FIRST SECTION Application no. 29761/22 Janina Józefa SALA against Poland and 5 other applications (see list appended) communicated on 26 March 2024 SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE The present applications concern reduction of the applicants’ pensions. They raise issues similar to Cichopek and Others v.   Poland   ((dec.), nos.   15189/10 and 1,627 others, 14   May 2013), Bieliński v.   Poland (no.   48762/19, 21 July 2022) and Raboszuk v.   Poland (no.   231/22 and 2 other applications, recently communicated). In 2017, following the entry into force of the amendments of the Law of 18   February 1994 on old-age pensions of functionaries of the police, the Internal Security Agency, the Intelligence Agency, the Military Counter ‑ Intelligence Service, the Military Intelligence Service, the Central Anti ‑ Corruption Bureau, the Border Guard, the Government Protection Bureau, the State Fire Service, the Prison Service and their families ( ustawa o zaopatrzeniu emerytalnym funkcjonariuszy Policji, Agencji Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego, Agencji Wywiadu, Służby Kontrwywiadu Wojskowego, Służby Wywiadu Wojskowego, Centralnego Biura Antykorupcyjnego, Straży Granicznej, Biura Ochrony Rządu, Państwowej Straży Pożarnej i Służby Więziennej oraz ich rodzin   – “the   1994   Act”), administrative decisions were issued recalculating the applicants’ pensions. The decisions were immediately enforceable. Upon appeal, the domestic courts did not accept the administrative decisions in their entirety, however, they partly decreased the applicants’ social benefits in relation to their original pension holding that, during certain periods of their service, they had served a totalitarian regime. The applicants complain under Article 1 of Protocol No.   1 that the decrease of their pension constitutes a disproportionate interference with their acquired rights which, in turn, amounts to a violation of their right to peaceful enjoyment of their possessions. QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES Did the decrease of the applicants’ pensions amount to an interference with the peaceful enjoyment of their possessions, within the meaning of Article   1 of Protocol No.   1? If so, was the interference in the public interest and subject to the conditions provided for by law? Did it put an excessive individual burden on the applicants?     APPENDIX No. Application no. Case name Lodged on Applicant Year of Birth Place of Residence Nationality Represented by 1. 29761/22 Sala v. Poland 07/06/2022 Janina Józefa SALA 1951 Biała Podlaska Polish   2. 32326/22 Pakuła v.   Poland 20/05/2022 Wiesław PAKUŁA 1955 Biała Podlaska Polish   3. 33274/22 Kłucinska-Głuszczak v.   Poland 22/06/2022 Irena KŁUCIŃSKA-GŁUSZCZAK 1953 Legionowo Polish   4. 36262/22 Kręciejewski v.   Poland 12/07/2022 Ryszard KRĘCIEJEWSKI 1947 Motarzyn Polish   5. 41754/22 Czarnecki v.   Poland 09/08/2022 Jerzy Stefan CZARNECKI 1952 Będzin Polish   6. 56299/22 Saks v.   Poland 16/11/2022 Jan SAKS 1957 Warszawa Polish Monika Małgorzata GĄSIOROWSKA