CASE OF GOLOVCHENKO AGAINST THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

Resolution CM/ResDH(2024)436 Execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights Golovchenko against Republic of Moldova (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 11 December 2024 at the 1515th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)    Application No. Case Judgment of Final on 66418/14 GOLOVCHENKO 21/03/2023 21/03/2023 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 judgment transmitted by the Court to the Committee in this case and to the violations established on account of applicant’s conviction, based on statements of witnesses, without having a chance to confront them, as well as the domestic courts’ failure to properly address the applicant’s plea of entrapment; 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 action report provided by the government indicating the individual measures adopted to execute the judgment including the information provided regarding the payment of the just satisfaction awarded by the Court (see document DH-DD(2024)1354); Considering that the question of individual measures was resolved, given the applicant did not avail himself of his right to request the reopening of the criminal proceedings; Recalling that the question of general measures required in response to the shortcomings found by the Court in the part related to the domestic courts’ failure to properly address the applicant’s plea of entrapment have been examined in the framework of the Sandu group of cases, closed in 2018 (Resolution CM/ResDH(2018)12); Recalling further that the question of general measures required in response to the other shortcomings found by the Court in this judgment continues to be examined within the framework of the Mititelu and Antonovici group of cases, also in the light of the Court’s findings in this case, and that the closure of this case 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 this case; CONCLUDES that the necessary individual measures have been adopted; DECIDES to continue to supervise the adoption of the necessary general measures within the framwork of the Mititelu and Antonovici group; DECIDES to close the examination of this case.