CEDH · CASELAW;RESOLUTIONS;EXECUTION;ENG — 19 décembre 2007

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color:#0069d6 } .sF66F4DA4 { width:23.21pt; display:inline-block } .sF6A12959 { width:33%; height:1px; text-align:left } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt } .s23ADBB69 { font-size:6.67pt; vertical-align:super; color:#0069d6 } Resolution CM/ResDH(2007)163 [1] Execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights Niederböster against Germany and four other cases concerning the excessive length of proceedings before the Federal Constitutional Court   (see Appendix for details)     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”),   Having regard to the judgments transmitted by the Court to the Committee once they had become final;   Recalling that the violations of Article 6, paragraph 1 of the Convention found by the Court in these cases concern the excessive length of certain proceedings concerning civil rights and obligations before the Federal Constitutional Court (see details in Appendix);   Having invited the government of the respondent state to inform the Committee of the measures taken in order to comply with Germany’s obligation under Article   46, paragraph 1, of the Convention to abide by the judgments;   Having examined the information provided by the government in accordance with the Committee’s Rules for the application of Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention;   Having satisfied itself that, within the time-limit set, the respondent state paid the applicants the just satisfaction provided in the judgments (see details in Appendix),   Recalling that a finding of violations by the Court requires, over and above the payment of just satisfaction awarded by the Court in its judgments, the adoption by the respondent state, where appropriate: - of individual measures to put an end to the violations and erase their consequences so as to achieve as far as possible restitutio in integrum ; and   - of general measures, preventing similar violations;   DECLARES, having examined the measures taken by the respondent state (see Appendix) and considering the decisions taken at the 854th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies (20 October 2003) in the Niederböster case, at the 906th meeting (22 December 2004) in the Trippel and Voggenreiter cases, at the 940th meeting (26 October 2005) in the Wimmer case and at the 992nd meeting (20   April   2007) in the Klasen case, that it has exercised its functions under Article   46, paragraph 2, of the Convention in these cases and   DECIDES to close the examination of these cases. Appendix to Resolution CM/ResDH(2007)163   Information about the measures to comply with the judgments in the case of Niederböster against Germany and four other cases concerning the length of proceedings before the Federal Constitutional Court   Introductory case summary   These cases relate to the excessive length of proceedings concerning civil rights and obligations before the Federal Constitutional Court (FCC). In particular, in the cases of Niederböster and Wimmer, the European Court took into account the fact that the proceedings at issue, concerning requests of visiting and custody rights, required a special diligence (violations of Article 6, paragraph 1).   Case Name Application Number Judgment of Final on Total Length of Proceedings From To Total Length Niederböster 39547/98 27/02/2003 27/05/2003 23/06/1993 01/12/1998 5 years, 5 months, including more than 4 years before the FCC Trippel 68103/01 04/12/2003 04/03/2004 12/01/1995 13/09/2000 5 years, 8 months Voggenreiter 47169/99 08/01/2004 08/04/2004 18/12/1993 29/11/2000 6 years, 11 months Wimmer 60534/00 24/02/2005 24/05/2005 09/08/1993 20/01/2000 6 years, 5 months Klasen 75204/01 05/10/2006 05/01/2007 05/09/1991 28/03/2001 9 years, 6 months, including 4 years and 9 months before the FCC   I.   Payment of just satisfaction and individual measures   a) Details of just satisfaction   Case Name Pecuniary damage Non-pecuniary damage Cost and expenses Total Date of payment Niederböster - - 1 800 EUR 1 800 EUR 14/07/2003 Trippel - 3 000 EUR 1 800 EUR 4 800 EUR 27/04/2004 Voggenreiter - 2 000 EUR 3 900 EUR 5 900 EUR 15/06/2004 Wimmer - - 1 580.49 EUR 1 580.49 EUR 18/08/2005 Klasen - 1 000 EUR 500 EUR 1 500 EUR 02/03/2007   b) Individual measures   In all these cases, the domestic proceedings before the FCC had already ended when the European Court rendered its judgments and the damages suffered by the applicants on account of the violation of the Convention have been remedied through the award of a compensation for non pecuniary damage or, in the cases of Niederböster and Wimmer, the finding of the violation.     II.   General measures   The government recalls that, following the findings of violations of Article 6, paragraph 1 of the Convention on account of the excessive length of proceedings before the FCC in the cases of Pammel and Probstmeier (judgments of 1/07/1997), measures have been taken to improve the efficiency of the FCC and avoid new similar violations (see Resolutions ResDH(2001)6 and ResDH(2001)7 adopted on 26   February 2001 in the Pammel and Probstemeier cases).   In particular, administrative measures have been taken to enable the FCC to manage its increasing workload: the resources of the FCC have been increased, which has allowed the hiring of additional staff with a view to conclude pending cases in a timely manner. Statistical data concerning the period between 1997 and 2002 confirm that, as a consequence, the backlog was gradually decreasing.   Furthermore, the judgments have been disseminated to the FCC. The Voggenreiter judgment has also been published in Europäische Grundrechte Zeitschrift vol. 31, no. 5 (2004), pp. 150-156, and in Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (2005), pp. 41-44 and the Wimmer judgment has been published in Familie und Recht (2005), pp. 380-382 and in Das Jugendamt (2006), pp. 97-100. All judgments of the European Court against Germany are also publicly available via the website of the Federal Ministry of Justice ( www.bmj.de , Themen, Menschenrechte, EGMR) which provides a direct link to the Court’s website for judgments in German.     III.   Conclusions of the respondent state   The government considers that the measures adopted have fully remedied the consequences for the applicants of the violations of the Convention found by the European Court in these cases, that these measures will prevent new, similar violations and that Germany has thus complied with its obligations under Article   46, paragraph 1, of the Convention. [1] Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 19 December 2007 at the 1013th meeting of the Ministers’   Deputies