European Court of Human Rights

THIRD SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 31135/05
Iosa Gherasim VLACIS against Romania
and 16 other applications
(see list appended)

The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting on 29 May 2012 as a Committee composed of:

Egbert Myjer, President,
Luis López Guerra,
Kristina Pardalos, judges,
and Marialena Tsirli, Deputy Setion Registrar,

Having regard to the above applications lodged on the dates tabulated below,

Having regard to the formal declarations accepting a friendly settlement of the cases,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

PROCEDURE

The applicants are Romanian nationals whose details are tabulated below. The Romanian Government (“the Government”) were represented by their Agent, Ms I. Cambrea, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

All applications concern the length of civil or criminal proceedings in which the applicants were involved. The applicants relied on Article 6 § 1 of the Convention.

On the dates tabulated below the Court received friendly settlement declarations signed by the parties under which the applicants or the representatives on their behalf agreed to waive any further claims against Romania in respect of the facts giving rise to these applications against an undertaking by the Government to pay them the sums tabulated below to cover any pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage as well as costs and expenses, which would be converted into Romanian lei at the rate applicable on the date of payment, and will be free of any taxes that may be applicable. They will 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. The payment will constitute the final resolution of the cases.

THE LAW

The Court takes note of the friendly settlement reached between the parties. It is satisfied that the settlement is based on respect for human rights as defined in the Convention and its Protocols and finds no reasons to justify a continued examination of the applications (Article 37 § 1 in fine of the Convention).

In view of the above, it is appropriate to strike the cases out of the list.

For these reasons, the Court unanimously

Decides to join the applications;

Decides to strike the applications out of its list of cases.

Marialena Tsirli Egbert Myjer
Deputy Registrar President

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