Resolution CM/ResDH(2024)278
Execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
Three cases against Hungary
 
(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 6 November 2024
at the 1511th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)
 
 Application No.
Case
Judgment of
Final on
46626/13
HODOROG
03/11/2015
03/11/2015
966/14
PARTNERS 2000 KFT AND OTHERS
22/03/2016
22/03/2016
65845/13
S.E.F.T. TRAFIK KFT AND OTHERS
30/10/2018
30/10/2018
 
The Committee of Ministers, under the terms of Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which provides that the Committee supervises the execution of final judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Convention” and “the Court”);
 
Having regard to the final judgments transmitted by the Court to the Committee in these cases and to the violations established on account of the removal of tobacco retail licenses in violation of the right to the protection of property;
 
Recalling the respondent State’s obligation, under Article 46, paragraph 1, of the Convention, to abide by all final judgments in cases to which it has been a party and that this obligation entails, over and above the payment of any sums awarded by the Court, the adoption by the authorities of the respondent State, where required:
 
-          of individual measures to put an end to violations established and erase their consequences so as to achieve as far as possible restitutio in integrum; and
-          of general measures preventing similar violations;
 
Having invited the government of the respondent State to inform the Committee of the measures taken to comply with the above-mentioned obligation;
 
Having examined the information provided by the government indicating the individual measures adopted to execute the judgments including the information provided regarding the payment of the just satisfaction awarded by the Court (see document DH-DD(2020)69);
 
Considering that the question of individual measures was resolved, given that the pecuniary damage awarded by the Court included a sum for compensation for the loss of future earnings and loss of business and the applicants have a possibility to continue their tobacco retail business;
 
Recalling that the question of general measures required in response to the shortcomings found by the Court in these judgments continues to be examined within the framework of the case of Vekony v. Hungary, also in the light of the Court’s findings in these cases, and that the closure of these cases therefore in no way prejudges the Committee’s evaluation of the general measures required;
 
DECLARES that it has exercised its functions under Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention in these cases;
 
CONCLUDES that the necessary individual measures have been adopted;
 
DECIDES to continue to supervise the adoption of the necessary general measures within the framework of the case of Vekony v. Hungary;
 
DECIDES to close the examination of these cases.