KOCHOVSKA A OSTATNÍ proti Severní Makedonii

SECOND SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 37800/19
Rada KOCHOVSKA and others against North Macedonia
and 5 other applications

(see appended table)

The European Court of Human Rights (Second Section), sitting on 2 June 2022 as a Committee composed of:

Branko Lubarda, President,
Pauliine Koskelo,
Gilberto Felici, judges,
and Viktoriya Maradudina, 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 is set out in the appended table.

The applicants were represented by Danche Chakarovska-Grozdanovska, a lawyer practising in Skopje.

The applicants’ complaints under Article 6 of the Convention concerning the length of bankruptcy proceedings were communicated to the Government of North Macedonia (“the Government”).

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

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 23 June 2022.

Viktoriya Maradudina Branko Lubarda
Acting Deputy Registrar President

APPENDIX

List of applications raising complaints under Article 6 of the Convention

(excessive length of bankruptcy proceedings)

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