Resolution CM/ResDH(2025)44
Execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights
Verrascina and Others against Italy
 
(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 2 April 2025
at the 1524th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)
 
Application No.
Case
Judgment of
Final on
15566/13+
VERRASCINA AND OTHERS
28/04/2022
28/07/2022
 
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 of Article 6, paragraph 1, and Article 13 of the Convention, established on account of the excessive length of judicial civil and administrative proceedings and the ineffectiveness, between 2012 and 2018, of a compensatory remedy (“Pinto”) available since 2001 to victims of excessively lengthy proceedings;
 
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 measures adopted to give effect to the judgment including the information provided regarding the payment of the just satisfaction awarded by the Court (see document DH-DD(2024)600);
 
Considering that the question of individual measures was resolved, given that the just satisfaction awarded by the Court was paid and the domestic proceedings which had given rise to “Pinto” applications had been terminated when the Court issued this judgment;
 
Recalling that the measures required to guarantee the non-repetition of the violation of Article 13 were examined in the context of the case Olivieri and Others v. Italy (see Final Resolution CM/ResDH(2022)351);
 
Recalling also that the measures required in response to the violation of Article 6 were examined in the context of the case Abenavoli v. Italy (see Final Resolution CM/ResDH(2024)203) and continue to be examined in the framework of the group of cases Trapani v. Italy, 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 these measures;
 
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 general measures required to remedy the excessive length of judicial proceedings before civil courts in the group of cases Trapani;
 
DECIDES to close the examination of this case.