Ciucă and Others v. Romania

THIRD SECTION

Application no. 47025/08 Eugenia CIUCĂ against Romania and 3 other applications (see list appended)

The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting on 18 June 2015 as a committee composed of:

Luis López Guerra, President, Johannes Silvis, Valeriu Griţco, judges, and Karen Reid, Section Registrar,

Having regard to the above applications lodged on the various dates indicated in the appended table,

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

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

The list of applicants is set out in the appended table.

The applicants’ complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention concerning the excessive length of criminal proceedings were communicated to the Romanian Government (“the Government”).

The Court received friendly-settlement declarations under which the applicants agreed to waive any further claims against Romania in respect of the facts giving rise to these applications, subject to an undertaking by the Government to pay them the amounts detailed in the appended table. These amounts will be converted into the currency of the respondent State at the rate applicable on the date of payment, and will be payable within three months from the date of notification of the Court’s decision. In the event of failure to pay these amounts within the above-mentioned three ‑ month period, the Government undertake to pay simple interest on them, from the 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 the continued examination of the applications. 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 in accordance with Article 39 of the Convention.

Done in English and notified in writing on 9 July 2015.

Karen Reid Luis López Guerra Registrar President

APPENDIX

No.

Application no.

Date of introduction

Applicant

Date of birth

Date of receipt of Government’s declaration

Date of receipt of Applicant’s declaration

Amount for pecuniary, non-pecuniary damages and costs and expenses [1] per applicant (in euros)

47025/08

23/09/2008

Eugenia CIUCĂ

18/11/1960

18/05/2015

06/05/2015

4,800

55412/12

13/08/2012

Enea Ioan TRUȚA

27/11/1955

23/04/2015

22/12/2014

2,100

28893/13

17/04/2013

Marian NEDEA

11/07/1969

29/04/2015

21/04/2015

500

54878/13

05/08/2013

Claudia Maria UNGUREANU MAIER

27/06/1968

19/03/2015

04/05/2015

900

[1] Plus any tax that may be chargeable to the applicants