CASE OF LĂCĂTUȘU AND OTHERS AGAINST ROMANIA AND 3 OTHER CASES

Resolution CM/ResDH(2025)449 Execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights Four cases against Romania   (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 10 December 2025 at the 1546th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)   Application No. Case Judgment of Final on 19796/16+ LĂCĂTUȘU AND OTHERS 02/03/2023 02/03/2023 61145/15+ PISĂU AND OTHERS 06/06/2019 06/06/2019 26990/15 STĂNCULEANU  09/01/2018 28/05/2018 52149/16+ TUDOR AND OTHERS 13/01/2022 13/01/2022   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 judgments transmitted by the Court to the Committee in these cases and to the violation of Article 3 of the Convention established on account of overcrowding and poor material conditions in detention;   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 notes 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 documents DH-DD(2024)855 and DH-DD(2025)852);   Considering that the question of individual measures was resolved, given that the applicants have ceased serving their prison sentence, and that the just satisfaction awarded by the Court was paid;   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 Rezmiveș and Others v. Romania pilot judgment (No. 61467/12+), 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 in relation to overcrowding and poor material conditions in detention;   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 concerning overcrowding and poor material conditions in detention in the Rezmiveș and Others v. Romania pilot judgment (No. 61467/12+);   DECIDES to close the examination of these cases.