CEDH · CASELAW;RESOLUTIONS;EXECUTION;ENG — 6 mars 2002

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .s776E10E7 { margin-top:0pt; margin-left:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } .sFE832CA2 { margin-top:0pt; margin-left:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt } Resolution ResDH(2002)21 concerning the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights of 11 July 2000 (final on 11 October 2000) in the case of Hansen against Denmark   (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 6 March 2002 at the 783rd meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)     The Committee of Ministers, under the terms of Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms as amended by Protocol No. 11 (hereinafter referred to as “the Convention”), Having regard to the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the Hansen case delivered on 11 July 2000 and transmitted to the Committee of Ministers once it had become final under Articles 44 and 46 of the Convention; Recalling that the case originated in an application (No. 28971/95) against Denmark, lodged with the European Commission of Human Rights on 28 April 1995 under former Article 25 of the Convention by Mr Hardy Hansen, a Danish national, and that the Court, seized of the case under Article 5, paragraph 2, of Protocol No. 11, declared admissible the complaint concerning the excessive length of certain civil proceedings (complaint under Article 6, paragraph 1, of the Convention); Whereas in its judgment of 11 July 2000 the Court, after having taken formal note of a friendly settlement reached by the government of the respondent state and the applicant, and having been satisfied that the settlement was based on respect for human rights as defined in the Convention or its Protocols, decided, unanimously to strike the case out of its list; Whereas under the above-mentioned friendly settlement it was agreed that the Government of Denmark would pay to the applicant a sum of 45 000 Danish kroner with the addition of “reasonable” legal expenses; Recalling that Rule 44, paragraph 2, of the Rules of the Court provides that the striking out of a case shall be effected by means of a judgment which the President shall forward to the Committee of Ministers once it has become final in order to allow it to supervise, in accordance with Article 46, paragraph 2 of the Convention, the execution of any undertakings which may have been attached to the discontinuance or solution of the matter; Having regard to the Rules adopted by the Committee of Ministers concerning the application of Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention; Having satisfied itself that on 17 January 2001, the government of the respondent state had paid the applicant the sum of 45 000 Danish kroner provided for in the friendly settlement, that on 9 April 2001 it had paid the costs amounting to 43 875 Danish kroner and that no other measure was required in the present case to conform to the Court’s judgment, Declares, after having taken note of the information supplied by the Government of Denmark, that it has exercised its functions under Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention in this case.