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FIFTH SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 13283/05
Viktoriya Vasilyevna ZHEYDA against
Ukraine
and 51 other applications
(see list
appended)
The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting on 13 December 2011 as a Committee composed of:
Mark
Villiger,
President,
Karel
Jungwiert,
André
Potocki, judges,
and
Stephen Phillips, Deputy
Section Registrar,
Having regard to the above applications lodged on various dates,
Having regard to the decision to apply the pilot-judgment procedure taken in the case of Yuriy Nikolayevich Ivanov v. Ukraine (no. 40450/04, ECHR 2009 ... (extracts)),
Having regard to the unilateral declarations submitted by the respondent Government requesting the Court to strike the applications out of the list of cases,
Having deliberated, decides as follows:
THE FACTS
The applicants are Ukrainian nationals whose details are specified in the table below. The Ukrainian Government (“the Government”) were represented by Ms Valeria Lutkovska and Mr Nazar Kulchytskyy, of the Ministry of Justice.
Mr Mishura (the second applicant in the application no. 42183/08) died on 2 January 2011 and Mrs Mishura (the first applicant) expressed in substance her wish to pursue his part of the application.
The facts of the case, as submitted by the parties, may be summarised as follows.
On the dates set out in the table below the domestic courts or the labour dispute commissions (“the LDC”) of the State enterprises held for the applicants and ordered the authorities to pay them various pecuniary amounts or take certain actions. The decisions in the applicants’ favour became final but the authorities delayed their enforcement.
COMPLAINTS
The applicants complained about the delayed enforcement of the decisions given in their favour. Some of them also raised other complaints.
THE LAW
The Government invited the Court to strike the applications out of the list of cases. They suggested that the declarations might be accepted by the Court as “any other reason” justifying the striking out of the case of the Court’s list of cases, as referred to in Article 37 § 1 (c) of the Convention.
The declarations also provided that the compensation sums were to cover any pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage as well as costs and expenses and would be free of any taxes that may be applicable1, to be converted into the national currency of the respondent State at the rate applicable at the date of settlement. They would be payable within three months from the date of notification of the decision taken by the Court pursuant to Article 37 § 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights. In the event of failure to pay these sums within the said three-month period, the Government undertook to pay simple interest on them from expiry of that period until settlement, at a rate equal to the marginal lending rate of the European Central Bank during the default period plus three percentage points. This payment would constitute the final resolution of the cases.
The applicants either disagreed with the declarations on various grounds and requested the Court to pursue the examination of their cases or did not provide any comments.
The Court reiterates that it may at any stage of the proceedings strike an application out of its list of cases where the circumstances lead to the conclusions specified under Article 37 § 1 (a)-(c) of the Convention. In particular, under Article 37 § 1 (c) the Court may strike a case out of its list if for any other reason established by the Court, it is no longer justified to continue the examination of the application.
Article 37 § 1 in fine states:
“However, the Court shall continue the examination of the application if respect for human rights as defined in the Convention and the protocols thereto so requires”.
The Court also reiterates that in certain circumstances it may strike out an application under Article 37 § 1 (c) on the basis of a unilateral declaration made by a respondent Government even if the applicant wishes the examination of the case to be continued (see Tahsin Acar v. Turkey (preliminary objection) [GC], no. 26307/95, §§ 75-77, ECHR 2003-VI).
The Court recalls that in the aforementioned pilot judgment it ordered Ukraine to grant redress to the applicants whose applications were communicated to the Government before the delivery of the judgment or would be communicated further to the judgment and concerned complaints about the prolonged non-enforcement of domestic decisions for which the State was responsible (see Yuriy Nikolayevich Ivanov v. Ukraine, cited above, § 99 and point 6 of the operative part). Having examined the terms of the Government’s declarations, the Court understands them as intending to give the applicants the redress in accordance with the pilot judgment.
The Court is satisfied that the Government explicitly acknowledge the excessive duration of the enforcement of decisions given in the applicants’ favour and undertake to enforce the decisions which have not been enforced yet. It also notes that the compensation sums offered by the Government are comparable with Court awards in similar cases, taking account, inter alia, of the specific delay in each particular case.
The Court therefore considers that it is no longer justified to continue the examination of the relevant parts of the applications. It is also satisfied that respect for human rights as defined in the Convention and the Protocols thereto does not require it to continue the examination of these parts of the applications. Accordingly, they should be struck out of the list.
It follows that these parts of the applications are manifestly ill-founded and must be rejected in accordance with Article 35 §§ 3 (a) and 4 of the Convention.
For these reasons, the Court unanimously
Decides to join the applications;
Takes note of the terms of the respondent Government’s declarations in respect of the applicants’ complaints about the delayed enforcement of the domestic decisions given in their favour;
Decides to strike the applications out of its list of cases in so far as they relate to the above complaints in accordance with Article 37 § 1 (c) of the Convention;
Declares the remainder of the applications inadmissible.
Stephen
Phillips Mark Villiger
Deputy Registrar President
APPENDIX
|
No. |
Application number, applicant’s name and date of birth |
Date of introduction |
Domestic decisions about the delayed enforcement of which the applicants complain (date of the decision and name of the court/LDC) |
Date of the Government’s unilateral declaration |
Compensation sums offered by the Government (in euros) |
|
1. |
13283/05 ZHEYDA, Viktoriya Vasilyevna, 1967 |
29 March 2005 |
2 June 2005, LDC of the “RMP” Plant |
14 July 2011 |
1,095 |
|
2. |
15041/05 ADYGEZHALOVA, Lyudmila Viktorovna, 1960 |
12 April 2005 |
12 December 2002 and 11 August 2004, Novogorodivka Court |
25 June 2011 |
1,515 |
|
3. |
34139/05 BOCHKAREV, Nikolay Dmitriyevich, 1964 |
31 August 2005 |
5 February 2004, Mykolayiv Garrison Military Court |
14 July 2011 |
1,320 |
|
4. |
34425/05 BIGUN, Yuliya Nikolayevna, 1962 |
7 September 2005 |
20 August 1996, Krasnogvardiyskyy District Court of Dnipropetrovsk (on 6 February 2004 the same court changed the procedure for execution of the judgment) |
25 June 2011 |
1,950 |
|
5. |
39158/05 BELOV, Nikolay Mikhaylovich, 1939 |
15 October 2005 |
9 February 1998, Kerch Сourt |
21 April 2011 |
2,355 |
|
6. |
5712/06 BARDAKOVA, Irina Yuryevna, 1959 |
24 January 2006 |
27 November 2001, Nova Kakhovka Court |
21 April 2011 |
1,605 |
|
7. |
21491/06 LYASHENKO, Viktor Antonovich, 1942 |
15 May 2006 |
29 July 2005, LDC of the Lysychanskyy Plant “RTI” |
21 April 2011 |
1,035 |
|
8. |
23642/06 YERMAK, Lyudmila Nikolayevna, 1966 |
3 June 2006 |
16 May 2005, Slavutych Court |
25 June 2011 |
1,080 |
|
9. |
28677/06 MAKOGON, Petr Grigoryevich, 1934 |
26 June 2006 |
26 June 2000, Pervomaysk Court |
25 June 2011 |
1,605 |
|
10. |
38612/06 SHTYLYEV, Petr Vasilyevich, 1933 |
11 September 2006 |
11 April 2007, Novogorodivka Court |
25 June 2011 |
735 |
|
11. |
47344/06 GOLUBKOVA, Tetyana Viktorivna, 1959 |
10 November 2006 |
22 December 2000, Bogunskyy District Court of Zhytomyr |
13 July 2011 |
1,890 |
|
12. |
3239/07 RYABUSHKO, Viktor Nikolayevich, 1949 |
14 December 2006 |
25 July 2003, Chervonogvardiyskyy District Court of Makiyivka |
14 July 2011 |
1,410 |
|
13. |
6159/07 DEMIDAS, Mikhail Dmitriyevich, 1958 |
26 January 2007 |
24 February 2005, Antratsyt District Court |
13 July 2011 |
1,125 |
|
14. |
7155/07 SUKHOVERKHOV, Vitaliy Fedorovich, 1951 |
18 January 2007 |
23 January 2006, Krasnyy Luch Court |
12 July 2011 |
975 |
|
15. |
7487/07 TSAPKO, Anatoliy Nikolayevich, 1953, and Valentina Ivanovna, 1957 |
28 January 2007 |
22 March 2005, Antratsyt District Court (two judgments) |
13 July 2011 |
1,110 (for each) |
|
16. |
25116/07 MAZHANOV, Mikhail Afanasyevich, 1946 |
4 June 2007 |
26 February 2004, Nova Kakhovka Court |
21 April 2011 |
840 |
|
17. |
31571/07 SHETELYA, Vasyl Yuriyovych, 1955 |
10 July 2007 |
25 April 2003, Svalyava District Court |
13 July 2011 |
1,410 |
|
18. |
31601/07 BIZINA, Nadiya Kostyantynivna, 1958 |
17 July 2007 |
15 April 2005, Nova Kakhovka Court |
21 April 2011 |
975 |
|
19. |
32454/07 SEMENENKO, Maryna Yegorivna, 1950 |
18 July 2007 |
17 February 2005, Shostka District Court |
21 April 2011 |
975 |
|
20. |
33293/07 MOTSYO, Tetyana Volodymyrivna, 1967 |
17 July 2007 |
15 April 2005, Nova Kakhovka Court |
21 April 2011 |
975 |
|
21. |
8527/08 YERYGIN, Aleksey Petrovich, 1938 |
25 January 2008 |
7 April 2006, Krasnyy Luch Court |
12 July 2011 |
945 |
|
22. |
8654/08 AFANASENKO, Anatoliy Ivanovich, 1964 |
25 January 2008 |
9 February 2005, Krasnyy Luch Court |
12 July 2011 |
1,140 |
|
23. |
14747/08 SALAMAKHA, Volodymyr Ivanovych, 1957 |
28 February 2008 |
17 April 2003, Bogunskyy District Court of Zhytomyr |
13 July 2011 |
1,365 |
|
24. |
19343/08 RIZNYTSKYY, Ilya Mykhaylovych, 1924 |
9 April 2008 |
16 November 2001, Dniprovskyy District Court of Kherson |
21 April 2011 |
1,680 |
|
25. |
24791/08 BATURINA, Svetlana Yakovlevna, 1947 |
13 May 2008 |
18 May 2004, Tsentralnyy District Court of Symferopol (as amended on 25 April 2006) |
17 August 2011 |
1,155 |
|
26. |
29215/08 KOROBCHUK, Olga Nikolayevna, 1964 |
28 May 2008 |
1 June 2005, Krasnyy Luch Court |
21 April 2011 |
1,035 |
|
27. |
42183/08 MISHURA, Kateryna Oleksiyivna, 1941, and Vasyl Petrovych, 1937 |
18 August 2008 |
14 July 2007, Kyevo-Svyatoshinskyy Court (as amended on 21 August 2007) |
13 July 2011 |
690 (for both) |
|
28. |
53787/08 DZYUBA, Galyna Trokhymivna, 1944 |
22 October 2008 |
5 April 2007, Bogoduhiv Court |
21 April 2011 |
675 |
|
29. |
57582/08 RAYDUGA, TOV |
17 November 2008 |
28 March 2005, Kherson City Commercial Court |
15 July 2011 |
945 |
|
30. |
1834/09 PONOMAREVA, Lyubov Vladimirovna, 1959 |
2 December 2008 |
21 July 2003 and 11 August 2005, Krasnyy Luch Court |
21 April 2011 |
1,380 |
|
31. |
4511/09 MAYDANICHENKO, Vladimir Nikolayevich, 1977 |
11 December 2008 |
22 May 2006, Krasnyy Luch Court |
21 April 2011 |
870 |
|
32. |
4548/09 SHKOLNYUK, Lyubov Vasilyevna, 1967 |
11 December 2008 |
9 November 2005, Krasnyy Luch Court |
21 April 2011 |
960 |
|
33. |
4553/09 KOVALEVA, Irina Zdislavovna, 1958 |
11 December 2008 |
1 June 2005, Krasnyy Luch Court |
21 April 2011 |
1,035 |
|
34. |
4563/09 BUCHKO, Vladimir Ivanovich, 1953 |
11 December 2009 |
4 September 2002, Krasnyy Luch Court |
4 May 2011 |
1,560 |
|
35. |
10432/09 LEBEDINSKAYA, Alevtina Alekseyevna, 1954 |
30 January 2009 |
5 August 1999, Svitlovodsk Town Court, and 16 May 2007, Svitlovodsk District Court |
25 June 2011 |
2,130 |
|
36. |
11607/09 GRYCHKOVSKYY, Georgiy Mykhaylovich, 1948 |
28 January 2009 |
28 September and 29 November 2006, Sofiyivka District Court |
25 June 2011 |
720 |
|
37. |
12719/09 1). MELNIK, Vasiliy Stepanovich, 1936, 2). PIVEN, Vladimir Grigoryevich, 1944, 3). SINELNIK, Anisya Yevtikhovna, 1954 |
16 February 2009 |
1). 19 December 2000, 2). 26 November 1999, 3). 7 February 2005, Kostyantyvinka Court |
27 July 2011 |
1). 1,890 2). 2,085 3). 1,140 |
|
38. |
13639/09 ZAZVORKA, Rostislav Yosifovich, 1947 |
16 February 2009 |
28 December 2000, Kostyantynivka Court |
27 July 2011 |
1,890 |
|
39. |
17861/09 1). ZHUK, Vera Yegorovna, 1943, 2). GALAGAN, Vasiliy Ilyich, 1952, 3). VASILYEVA, Lyudmila Petrovna, 1949, 4). SHARUDA, Sergey Vladimirovich, 1966, 5). FILIMONOVA, Liliya Vasilyevna, 1936, 6). ZAKARLYUKA, Tatyana Nikolayevna, 1954, 7). MOSPAN, Galina Vladimirovna, 1957 |
5 March 2009 |
1). 4 October 2000, Kostyantyvinka Court, 2). 10 October 2000, LDC of the “Avtosklo” Plant, 3). 2 November 2000, 4). 11 December 2000, Kostyantynivka Court, 5). 21 February 2001, LDC of the “Avtosklo” Plant, 6). 2 June 2004, 7). 9 December 2004, Kostyantynivka Court |
27 July 2011 |
1). 1,935 2). 1,935 3). 1,920 4). 1,905 5). 1,860 6). 1,260 7). 1,170 |
|
40. |
17894/09 1). GNIPA, Nikolay Mikhaylovich, 1940, 2). GNIPA, Olga Petrovna, 1945, 3). CHINENOVA, Valentina Mikhaylovna, 1949, 4). SHEVCHENKO, Raisa Petrovna, 1950, 5). LUKASH, Irina Vasilyevna, 1958, 6). LUKASH, Valeriy Grigoryevich, 1955 |
5 March 2009 |
1). 5 March 2001, 2). 5 March 2001, Kostyantynivka Court, 3). 25 June 2001, LDC of the “Avstosklo” Plant; 4). 28 November 2001, 5). 27 December 2002, 6). 27 December 2002, Kostyantynivka Court |
27 July 2011 |
1). 1,860 2). 1,860 3). 1,800 4). 1,890 5). 1,515 6). 1,515 |
|
41. |
17944/09 1). VISLOGUZOVA, Olga Ivanovna, 1951, 2). SLADKEVICH, Viktor Mironovich, 1932, 3). MIKHALEVA, Lyubov Nikolayevna, 1964, 4). TOCHILO, Mariya Mikhaylovna, 1958 |
5 March 2009 |
1). 21 August 2002, 2). 27 September 2002, 3). 27 September 2002, 4). 27 September 2002 Kostyantynivka Court |
27 July 2011 |
1). 1,590 2). 1,575 3). 1,575 4). 1,575 |
|
42. |
17976/09 1). KHARCHENKO, Nadezhda Viktorovna, 1938, 2). DAVIDENKO, Vladimir Nikolayevich, 1959, 3). KRIVONOZHENKO, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, 1939, 4). GORENKOVA, Inna Mikhaylovna, 1967, |
5 March 2009 |
1). 16 August 2002, 2). 6 September 2002, 3). 11 September 2002, 4). 22 January 2003 Kostyantynivka Court |
27 July 2011 |
1). 1,605 2). 1,575 3). 1,575 4). 1,515 |
|
43. |
21506/09 1). DIKONENKO, Lyudmila Andreyevna, 1948, 2). BATLUK,
Tamara
Mikhaylovna, 1949, Valentina Ivanovna, 1952, 4). KORZUN,
Lyudmila
Alekseyevna,
1948,
Zinaida
Sergeyevna,
1941, Aleksandra Nikolayevna, 1942, 7). BUTKO, Valentina Pavlovna, 1948 |
10 April 2009 |
1). 4 May 1998, Kostyantynivka Court, 2). 9 December 1997 and 15 January 2001, LDC of the “Avtosklo” Plant, 3). 9 June 2000, 4). 16 February 2001, Kostyantynivka Court, 5). 19 February 2001, LDC of the “Avtosklo” Plant, 6). 22 March 2001, 7). 3 April 2001, Kostyantynivka Court |
27 July 2011 |
1). 2,370 2). 2,445 3). 1,995 4). 1,860 5). 1,860 6). 1,845 7). 1,830 |
|
44. |
21525/09 1). DYTKO, Natalya Vladimirovna, 1964, 2). SHABROVA, Valentina Ivanovna, 1946, 3). PASISHNICHENKO, Vasiliy Andreyevich, 1938, 4). KRIVENKO, Valentina Anatolyevna, 1956, 5). NAZAROVA, Raisa Vladimirovna, 1960, 6). BUTKO, Oleg Ivanovich, 1972, 7). OVSIYENKO, Anatoliy Vasilyevich, 1945, 8). POGULYAY, Vladimir Nikolayevich, 1968 |
10 April 2009 |
1). 29 January 2001, LDC of the “Avtosklo” Plant, 2). 13 February 2001, 3). 13 February 2001, 4). 15 February 2001, 5). 16 February 2001, 6). 27 March 2001, 7). 21 June 2001, 8). 26 November 2004, Kostyantynivka Court |
27 July 2011 |
1). 1,875 2). 1,860 3). 1,860 4). 1,860 5). 1,860 6). 1,830 7). 1,800 8). 1,170 |
|
45. |
21762/09 ZAKHARENKO, Nikolay Andreyevich, 1946 |
10 April 2009 |
1 November 2007 and 26 June 2008, Artemivsk District Court |
14 July 2011 |
585 |
|
46. |
30878/09 KARPACHEV, Sergey Alekseyevich, 1957 |
3 April 2009 |
7 February 2008, Tsentralno-Miskyy District Court of Makiyivka |
14 July 2011 |
570 |
|
47. |
33510/09 BONDARENKO, Galina Viktorovna, 1965 |
5 June 2009 |
12 December 2001, Kostyantynivka Court |
27 July 2011
|
1,710 |
|
48. |
40485/09 PANCHENKO, Nikolay Vlasovich, 1937 |
11 June 2009 |
4 April 2002, Nova Kakhovka Court (as amended on 30 October 2002) |
21 April 2011
|
1,515 |
|
49. |
45397/09 ZHUKOVA, Galyna Glibovna, 1953 |
4 August 2009 |
24 December 2008, Vasylkiv District Court |
13 July 2011
|
450 |
|
50. |
52509/09 MEDVEDEVA, Nelya Mykhaylivna, 1942 |
18 September 2009 |
23 March 2006, Sverdlovsk Court |
12 July 2011
|
945 |
|
51. |
53663/09 KHODARYOVA, Ulyana Maksymivna, 1934 |
21 September 2009 |
23 March 2006, Sverdlovsk Court
|
12 July 2011
|
930 |
|
52. |
54284/09 KOPAYEVA, Larysa Mykolayivna, 1938 |
18 September 2009 |
23 March 2006, Sverdlovsk Court
|
12 July 2011
|
930 |
1. As some of the declarations did not initially contain the tax exemption provision, subsequently the Government amended them accordingly