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FIRST SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 17666/22
Péter KOPÁCSI against Hungary
and 9 other applications

(see appended table)

The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 9 March 2023 as a Committee composed of:

Alena Poláčková, President,
Gilberto Felici,
Raffaele Sabato, judges,

and Attila Teplán, Acting Deputy 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 and their representatives 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 Hungarian Government (“the Government”). In some of the applications, complaints based on the same facts were also communicated under other provisions of the Convention.

The Court received the friendly-settlement declarations, signed by the parties, under which the applicants agreed to waive any further claims against Hungary 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 abovementioned 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

Having regard to the similar subject matter of the applications, the Court finds it appropriate to examine them jointly in a single decision.

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 the Protocols thereto and finds no reasons to justify a 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 30 March 2023.

Attila Teplán Alena Poláčková
Acting Deputy Registrar President



APPENDIX

List of applications raising complaints under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention

(excessive length of criminal proceedings)

No.

Application no.
Date of introduction

Applicant’s name

Year of birth

Representative’s name and location

Other complaints under wellestablished case-law

Date of receipt of Government’s declaration

Date of receipt of Applicant’s declaration

Amount awarded for pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage and costs and expenses per applicant

(in euros)[1]

17666/22

31/03/2022

Péter KOPÁCSI

1980

Kovácsházy András

Budapest

16/01/2023

25/01/2023

3,900

19799/22

13/04/2022

Gábor KÖRMÖCZI

1969

Patócs Ilona

Tapolca

Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of criminal proceedings

26/01/2023

02/01/2023

2,600

24988/22

09/05/2022

Zoltán SETÉT

1985

Kiss Dániel Bálint

Budapest

Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of criminal proceedings

25/01/2023

12/10/2022

5,200

31205/22

13/06/2022

Ede István KIS

1962

Fekete S. Tamás

Budapest

24/01/2023

29/09/2022

13,000

31586/22

22/06/2022

Attila PETROVICS

1972

Kiss Gabor H

Budapest

25/01/2023

11/10/2022

2,300

33079/22

22/06/2022

Csaba Mihály DOBOSI

1973

Nagy Viktor

Budapest

Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of criminal proceedings

26/01/2023

12/10/2022

9,100

42110/22

06/08/2022

Iván MAKÓ

1975

Borsos Tamás

Budapest

Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of criminal proceedings

16/01/2023

25/10/2022

3,600

44716/22

08/09/2022

Zsolt Gábor KALÁN

1965

Kiss Dániel Bálint

Budapest

Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of criminal proceedings

20/12/2022

07/11/2022

5,200

45310/22

02/09/2022

György BALOGH

1992

Kiss Dániel Bálint

Budapest

Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of criminal proceedings

16/01/2023

09/11/2022

3,300

46817/22

27/09/2022

Dávid MAGYAR

1992

Kiss Dániel Bálint

Budapest

Art. 13 - lack of any effective remedy in domestic law in respect of excessive length of criminal proceedings

17/01/2023

03/01/2023

2,600


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