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FIRST SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 60392/21
Ádám Károly FARAGÓ against Hungary
and 9 other applications

(see appended table)

The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 24 November 2022 as a Committee composed of:

Krzysztof Wojtyczek, President,
Ivana Jelić,
Erik Wennerström, 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 15 December 2022.

Attila Teplán Krzysztof Wojtyczek
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]

60392/21

24/11/2021

Ádám Károly FARAGÓ

1992

Bene Zoltán

Szeged

29/09/2022

08/07/2022

5,100

2161/22

14/12/2021

Ferenc NOVÁK

1980

Kiss Dániel Bálint

Budapest

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

13/09/2022

19/04/2022

2,600

5887/22

04/01/2022

Gábor HALASI

1978

Bene Zoltán

Szeged

15/09/2022

13/04/2022

3,900

8127/22

02/02/2022

László JÓNÁS

1977

22/08/2022

05/08/2022

6,500

13610/22

07/03/2022

(3 applicants)

Tibor József PRILL

1984

Norbert FAZEKAS

1980

Mónika DURKÓ

1985

Borsos Tamás

Budapest

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

23/09/2022

13/06/2022

3,300

15217/22

07/03/2022

Balázs BARKÓCZI

1991

Kiss Dániel Bálint

Budapest

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

27/09/2022

20/07/2022

2,600

15559/22

18/03/2022

Lászlóné SZILÁGYI

1972

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

02/09/2022

20/07/2022

11,700

18529/22

04/04/2022

Maximilian SHEFFIELD

1983

Kiss Dániel Bálint

Budapest

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

19/08/2022

14/07/2022

1,800

21737/22

23/04/2022

Tamás NAGY

1973

Csenterics Ferenc

Szentendre

12/09/2022

27/07/2022

7,800

23711/22

21/04/2022

Ákos CSEH

1989

N. Tóth Máté

Budapest

19/10/2022

22/09/2022

4,600


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