CEDH · PRESS;GENERAL;ENG — 11 mars 2004

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[1]       Violation of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1   Violation of Article 6 § 1 In the following six Italian cases, the applicants complained that they had been unable to recover possession of their apartments over an extended period, owing to a lack of police assistance. They also complained of the length of the eviction proceedings. They relied on Article 6 § 1 (access to a court) and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 (protection of property).     Non-Pecuniary damage Costs and expenses Antonio Siena v. Italy (no. 65120/01) 3,000 2,000 Bellini v. Italy (no. 2) (no. 64098/00) 3,000 4,500 Calvo v. Italy (no. 59636/00) 15,000 1,500 Montanari v. Italy (no. 61995/00) 5,000 2,500 Picone v. Italy (no. 59273/00) 10,000 3,500 Pollifrone v. Italy (no. 60391/00) 5,164.56 3,500   The Court held unanimously in all these cases that there had been a violation of Article 6 § 1 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention. It awarded the applicants, or their heirs, the amounts shown above, in euros, for non-pecuniary damage and for costs and expenses.   (These judgments are available only in English).     Friendly settlement In the following two Italian cases, the applicants complained that they had been unable to recover possession of their apartments over an extended period, owing to a lack of police assistance. They also complained of the length of the eviction proceedings. They relied on Article 6 § 1 (access to a court) and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 (protection of property).   Quintarelli v. Italy (no. 67873/01) Rossi and Naldini v. Italy (no. 31011/96)   These cases have been struck out of the list following friendly settlements under which Maria Quintarelli is to receive EUR 20,000 and Giovanni Rossi and Lorella Naldini are to receive EUR 4,649.37 each for the damage suffered and for costs and expenses. (These judgments are available only in French.)     ***   These summaries by the Registry do not bind the Court. The full texts of the Court’s judgments are accessible 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. [1] Under Article 43 of the European Convention on Human Rights, within three months from the date of a Chamber judgment, any party to the case may, in exceptional cases, request that the case be referred to the 17 ‑ member Grand Chamber of the Court. In that event, a panel of five judges considers whether the case raises a serious question affecting the interpretation or application of the Convention or its protocols, or a serious issue of general importance, in which case the Grand Chamber will deliver a final judgment. If no such question or issue arises, the panel will reject the request, at which point the judgment becomes final. Otherwise Chamber judgments become final on the expiry of the three-month period or earlier if the parties declare that they do not intend to make a request to refer.