CEDH · PRESS;GENERAL;ENG — 15 juin 2005

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .sFE10DC93 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .s40F41F73 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:right } .s8741533B { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:28.35pt; text-align:center } .s6C3B0BAF { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:28.35pt } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt } .s4DDA3AA3 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic } .s2EB42ED2 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt } .sADADF4A7 { font-family:Arial; text-decoration:underline } .s3C4DB099 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:left; font-size:10pt } .sFF596A0C { width:10.57pt; display:inline-block } .s9E97F54A { width:85.05pt; display:inline-block } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS   330 15.6.2005   Press release issued by the Registrar   Recent developments in: Broniowski v. Poland   The European Court of Human Rights has adjourned the case of Broniowski v. Poland (application no. 31443/96) pending the outcome of friendly settlement negotiations on the question of just satisfaction.   Broniowski v. Poland concerns Poland’s failure to implement compensatory measures in respect of persons repatriated from the “territories beyond the Bug River” in the aftermath of the Second World War who had had to abandon their property. According to the Polish Government, the anticipated total number of people entitled to such measures is nearly 80,000.   The Court delivered its (Grand Chamber) judgment on the merits in the case on 22 June 2004 (see press release no. 307 of 2004).   At the request of the Polish Government, the Registry of the Court has agreed to help the parties reach a friendly settlement concerning just satisfaction (Article 41 of the Convention).   In view of the importance of the matters involved and the consequences which a possible settlement might have for numerous other applicants with similar cases, the President of the Court, Luzius Wildhaber, has adjourned the case pending the outcome of the friendly settlement negotiations.   Mr Wildhaber has also granted the All-Polish Association of Borderland Creditors of the State Treasury association, which was set up several years ago to defend and promote the rights of Bug River claimants, leave to intervene as a third party in the proceedings.   ***       Further information about the Court can be found on its Internet site ( http://www.echr.coe.int ).   Registry of the European Court of Human Rights F – 67075 Strasbourg Cedex Press contacts:   Roderick Liddell (telephone: +00 33 (0)3 88 41 24 92)   Emma Hellyer (telephone: +00 33 (0)3 90 21 42 15)   Stéphanie Klein (telephone: +00 33 (0)3 88 41 21 54) Fax: +00 33 (0)3 88 41 27 91   The European Court of Human Rights was set up in Strasbourg by the Council of Europe Member States in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights. Since 1 November 1998 it has sat as a full-time Court composed of an equal number of judges to that of the States party to the Convention. The Court examines the admissibility and merits of applications submitted to it. It sits in Chambers of 7 judges or, in exceptional cases, as a Grand Chamber of 17 judges. The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe supervises the execution of the Court’s judgments.