Rezoluția CM/ResDH(2013)209 Șase cauze împotriva Poloniei Executarea hotărârilor Curții Europene a Drepturilor Omului Cauza Cerere n Hotărârea Definitivului SKIBI ElectroluxSCY 52589/99 14/11/2006 21/10/2008 26/03/2007 06/04/2009 BUCZKIEWICZ 10446/03 26/02/2008 26/05/2008 ROSI 38672/02 06/09/2007 06/12/2007 (adoptată de Comitetul miniștrilor la 16 octombrie 2013 în cadrul celei de-a 1181-a ședințe a delegaților miniștrilor) Comitetul miniștrilor, în temeiul articolului 46 alineatul (2) din Convenția pentru apărarea drepturilor omului și a libertăților fundamentale, care prevede ca Comitetul să supravegheze executarea hotărârilor definitive ale Curții Europene a Drepturilor Omului (denumite în continuare "convenția" și "Curtea"), Având în vedere hotărârile finale transmise de Curte Comitetului în cauzele de mai sus și încălcările constatate care reamintesc obligația statului pârât, în temeiul articolului 46 alineatul (1) (1) din Convenție, să se conformeze hotărârilor definitive în litigiile la care este parte și că această obligație implică, pe lângă plata satisfacției echitabile acordate de Curte, adoptarea de către autoritățile din statul membru în cauză, dacă este necesar de măsuri individuale pentru a pune capăt încălcărilor constatate și pentru a elimina consecințele acestora, în măsura posibilului de către Restitutio in integrum de măsuri generale de prevenire a unor încălcări similare care au invitat guvernul din statul pârât să informeze Comitetul cu privire la măsurile luate pentru a se conforma obligației respective După ce a examinat bilanțul de acțiune furnizat de guvern indicând măsurile adoptate pentru a executa hotărârile, inclusiv informațiile furnizate în ceea ce privește plata satisfacției echitabile acordate de Curte (a se vedea documentul DH-DD(2013) 888) ; și având în vedere faptul că au fost adoptate toate măsurile impuse prin art. 46 alineatul (1), DECLARĂ quasures to comply with the judgments in the Skibińscy against Poland group of cases (numai în limba engleză) Case description Skibińscy, Application No. 52589/99, judgment of 14/11/2006, final on 26/03/2007 Buczkiewicz, Application No. 10446/03, judgment of 26/02/2008 final on 26/05/2008 Rosiński, Application No. 17373/02, judgment of 17/07/2007 final on 17/10/2007 Tarnawczyk, Application No. 27480/02, judgment of 07/12/2010, final on 07/03/2011 Pietrzak, Application No. 38185/02, judgment of 08/01/2008, final on 07/07/2008 Skrzyński, Application No. 38672/02, judgment of 06/09/2007, final on 06/122/2007 The cases about an interference with the applicants right to the peaceful enjoyment of their depositions (violation of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1) in relation to the local development planes adopted by particularities before 1 January 1995. Acestea sunt planuri de designated some of the applicants maind for public use and thus could constitute grounds for viitor exproprietion. Pentru că exproprierea a fost necesară pentru a fi caried out a viitor, undetermined date and, concording to the legislation in force at the material time, the aplicants were not entitled to compensation for a protracted period of uncertainty and could not obtain land to remember the plot Moreover, they were unable to for the municipality to acquire their property what limited their possibility to pure their own proiects on the plots send. The European Court noted that before the enactment of the Local Planning Act on 7 July 1994 the local authorities did not have any obligation to compensate owners of be expropriated in the viitor. It was only by virtute of Article 36 of this Act that local authorities ciocame ford either to buy plots designated for viitor exproprietion under local Land development plans, to remember those plots by other plots, or to award the owners compensation for damage qued by thefact that their plots were designated for viitoare exproprietion. However, the right to compensation applied only to plans adopted after the 1994 Act had entered into force maine 1 January 1995. The European Court a conchisd that a fair balance was not strucck between the competition general and individual interests and that the aplicants had been required to bear an excesiv individual burden. The Tarnawczyk caseta ôns also the applicant. Her claim in nejust against the State Treasury, brought in 1999, was allowed in full by the court of first instance, but ultimately dismissed by the apellate scurt. Even though the existing of the damage not contempled by the Court of Appeal, the applicant.s claim failed fouled because, in the view of that scurt, the aplicant had hourred by identifying the wrong deflant. The European Court, not denying the complexity of the problems with which the courts had been faed as result of the fundamental changes in the complement of all the various authorities at the local and State Administration level, considered that shifting the duty of identifying the content authority to be sued to the aplicant and depriving her of compensation on this bazis was a dispropportionate requirement and had failed to strike a balance between the public interest and the applicant rights. Individual measures The European Court awarded the applicants with just satisfaction in respect of moraly damage and in some cases also in respect of pecuniary damage as well as reimbursment of costs and expenses. Skibińscy v. Poland, Case No. 52589/99 Pecuniary damage No-pecuniary damage Costs and expenses Total 15,000 Paid on 29/06/2009 5,000 Paid on 29/06/2009 1,647 EUR Paid on 29/05/2007 21,647 EUR Buczkiewicz v. Poland Case No. 10446/03 Pecuniary damage Non-pecuniary damage Costs and expenses Total 5,000 EUR 5,000 EUR Paid on 04/07/2008 Rosiński v. Poland, Case No. 17373/02 Pecuniary damage Non-pecuniary damage Costs and expenses Total 5,000 EUR 5,000 EUR Paid on 20/11/2007 Tarnawaczyk v. Poland, Case No. 27480/02 Pecuniary damage Non-pecuniary damage Costs and exposes Total 5,870 EUR 1,000 EUR 6,870 EUR Paid on 25/05/2011 Pietrzak v. Poland, Case No. 38185/02 Pecuniary damage Non-pecuniary damage Costs and expenses Total 5,000 EUR 5,000 EUR Paid on 03/09/2008 Skrzyński v. Poland, Case No. 38672/02 Pecuniary damage Non-pecuniary damage Costs and expenses Total 5,000 EUR 5,000 EUR Paid on 22/01/2008 All local development planse adopted before 1 January 1995 (hereinafter art. 36 din Legea privind ajutoarele de stat în cazul în care, în cazul în care este necesar, se aplică art. 36 din Legea privind ajutoarele de stat în cazul în care ajutorul este acordat în temeiul articolului 107 alineatul (3) litera (c) din Tratatul privind funcționarea Uniunii Europene, acesta nu poate fi considerat compatibil cu piața internă în temeiul articolului 107 alineatul (3) litera (c) din Tratatul privind funcționarea Uniunii Europene. Such claims may be compensated by way of restitution through an of an alternativ real estate to the owner or the perpetual user. In such instance, the claims expire on the date of the concluzie of a contract of exchange. Moreover, if the value of a real estate has decreased in connection with the adoption of a local plan or its amendment, and the owner or perpetual user transfers this real estate and has not availed himself of the abovetioned rights, he may cered compensation from the municipality, equal to the decrease in the value of the real estate. Detailed rules resulting the calculation of the compensation by the municipality as well as the deadlines for the implementation of the obligations resulting from the reported claims are included in Article 36 of the 1994 Act. To recapitulate, one can conclusion that amendments introduced in the 1994 Act suciently protect the property rights guaranteed in the Constitution. Am luat notă, it should be noted that local plans as such do not privition and canot determine is pertaining to exproprietion. Since of the local plans is regulated by the laws in force. Based on these laws, local plans can determine the design of the land for particular use as well as methods and conditions applicable on the land in question. Analogous regulations pertaining to claims lodged by owners and perpetual users of a real estate are contained in Article 36 of the Local Planning and Development Act of 27 March 2003, in forces as of 11 July 2003 (hereinafter Pursuant to the rules on development planning currently in force, planning decisions fort be taken in respect of the principle of proportionality main they need to balance the public and the individual interests. In order to achieve this, the programing proces include participații de all interesed stakeholders, what include participații în public discuții on the solutions adopted in local plans. At the same time, pursuant to Article 87§ 3 of the 2003 Act, all local development plans adapted before 1 January 1995 (The so-called January 2003 on the bazis of Article 67§ 1 of the 1994 Act. Such an an applied to the old plans adopted in the comunities which had failed to take upstudies on the conditions and directions of the local development before the expiry of the time-limit of 8 years running from the data of the entry into force of the 1994 Act. The anulment of a local development plan means that its provisions are no longer in force, thus cannot form a bazs for a any limitations on the owners in developing the land previously covered by the plans. The possibility to determine the use of land and cladire conditions on the land where no local development is currently in force is prescriebed in Article 4 (2) of the 2003 Act. The latter provision in particular to instance when the old development plans ceased to operate whereas no new plan has been adopted. to sum up, it should be noted that none of the old plans are in force and they cannot form a bazis for any limitations on the rights of the owners. In case a new local plan is a adopted, which impunes limitations on the use of real estate in the previous manner or in acordance with its previous purpose, all owners afect by its provizioane are entitled on equal footing and without any exceptions to obtain redress through compensation or restitution avute în vedere in Article 36 of the 2003 Act. Thus, the problem of the lack of compensation for owners whose properties had been allocated for the viitoare public investments has been solved. All interim regulations in the field of local planning that were in force in the period of the Polish systemic transformation have already been repealed. Regulations currently binding ensure full respect for the property rights of individual owners afecteazad by the provision of local plans, inclusiv the right to asignate compensation in instance when the local plan adopted prevents or seriously limitats the use of real estate in the previous manner or in acordance with its previous purpose. În aceste circumstanțe, nu other general measure appears necessary. III. Concluzii ale respondenței State The government considers that further individual measures are not necessary in the present case and that the general measures adopted will be sucient to conclusion that Poland has compliment with its obligations under Article 46, paragraph 1 of the Convention. [1] Informații submitted by the Polish authorities on 20 August 2013.
Résolution CM/ResDH(2013)209
Six affaires contre Pologne
Exécution des arrêts de la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme
Affaire
Requête n
o
Arrêt du
Définitif le
52589/99
14/11/2006
21/10/2008
26/03/2007
06/04/2009
10446/03
26/02/2008
26/05/2008
17373/02
17/07/2007
17/10/2007
27480/02
07/12/2010
07/03/2011
38185/02
08/01/2008
07/07/2008
38672/02
06/09/2007
06/12/2007
(adoptée par le Comité des Ministres le 16 octobre 2013,
lors de la 1181e réunion des Délégués des Ministres)
Le Comité des Ministres, en vertu de l’article 46, paragraphe 2, de la Convention de sauvegarde des droits de l’homme et des libertés fondamentales, qui prévoit que le Comité surveille l’exécution des arrêts définitifs de la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme (ci-après nommées «
la Convention
» et «
la Cour
»),
Vu les arrêts définitifs transmis par la Cour au Comité dans les affaires ci-dessus et les violations constatées
;
Rappelant l’obligation de l’Etat défendeur, en vertu de l’article 46, paragraphe
1, de la Convention, de se conformer aux arrêts définitifs dans les litiges auxquels il est partie et que cette obligation implique, outre le paiement de la satisfaction équitable octroyée par la Cour, l’adoption par les autorités de l’Etat défendeur, si nécessaire
:
-
de mesures individuelles pour mettre fin aux violations constatées et en effacer les conséquences, dans la mesure du possible par
restitutio in integrum
;
et
-
de mesures générales permettant de prévenir des violations semblables
;
Ayant invité le gouvernement de l’Etat défendeur à informer le Comité des mesures prises pour se conformer à l’obligation susmentionnée
;
Ayant examiné le bilan d’action fourni par le gouvernement indiquant les mesures adoptées afin d’exécuter les arrêts, y compris les informations fournies en ce qui concerne le paiement de la satisfaction équitable octroyée par la Cour (voir document
) ;
S’étant assuré que toutes les mesures requises par l’article 46, paragraphe 1, ont été adoptées,
DECLARE qu’il a rempli ses fonctions en vertu de l’article 46, paragraphe 2, de la Convention dans ces affaires et
DECIDE d’en clore l’examen.
A
ction report
[1]
Information about the measures to comply with the judgments in the
Skibińscy against Poland
group of cases
(anglais uniquement)
Case description
Skibińscy, Application No. 52589/99, judgment of 14/11/2006, final on 26/03/2007
Buczkiewicz, Application No. 10446/03, judgment of 26/02/2008, final on 26/05/2008
Rosiński, Application No. 17373/02, judgment of 17/07/2007, final on 17/10/2007
Tarnawczyk, Application No. 27480/02, judgment of 07/12/2010, final on 07/03/2011
Pietrzak, Application No. 38185/02, judgment of 08/01/2008, final on 07/07/2008
Skrzyński, Application No. 38672/02, judgment of 06/09/2007, final on 06/12/2007
The cases concern an interference with the applicants’ right to the peaceful enjoyment of their possessions (violation of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1) in relation to the local development plans adopted by particular municipalities before 1 January 1995. These plans designated some of the applicants’ land for public use and thus could constitute grounds for future expropriation. Because the expropriation was to be carried out at a future, undetermined date and, according to the legislation in force at the material time, the applicants were not entitled to compensation for a protracted period of uncertainty and could not obtain land to replace the plot “designated for expropriation”. Moreover, they were unable to oblige the municipality to acquire their property what limited their possibility to pursue their own projects on the plots concerned.
The European Court noted that before the enactment of the Local Planning Act on 7 July 1994 the local authorities did not have any obligation to compensate owners of plots to be expropriated in the future. It was only by virtue of Article 36 of this Act that local authorities became obliged either to buy plots designated for future expropriation under local land development plans, to replace those plots by other plots, or to award the owners compensation for damage caused by the fact that their plots were designated for future expropriation. However, the right to compensation applied only to plans adopted after the 1994 Act had entered into force – after 1 January 1995.
The European Court concluded that a fair balance was not struck between the competing general and individual interests and that the applicants had been required to bear an excessive individual burden.
The Tarnawczyk case concerns also the applicant’s complaint as to the failure of her efforts to obtain compensation for certain other categories of damage related to the decision to expropriate her. Her claim in tort against the State Treasury, brought in 1999, was allowed in full by the court of first instance, but ultimately dismissed by the appellate court. Even though the existence of the damage was not contested by the Court of Appeal, the applicant’s claim failed because, in the view of that court, the applicant had erred by identifying the wrong defendant.
The European Court, not denying the complexity of the problems with which the courts had been faced as a result of the fundamental changes in the competencies of all the various authorities at the local and State administration level, considered that shifting the duty of identifying the competent authority to be sued to the applicant and depriving her of compensation on this basis was a disproportionate requirement and had failed to strike a fair balance between the public interest and the applicant’s rights.
Individual measures
The European Court awarded the applicants with just satisfaction in respect of non-pecuniary damage and in some cases also in respect of pecuniary damage as well as reimbursement of costs and expenses.
Skibińscy
v. Poland, Case No. 52589/99
Pecuniary damage
Non-pecuniary damage
Costs and expenses
Total
15,000
Paid on 29/06/2009
5,000
Paid on 29/06/2009
Paid on 29/05/2007
21,647 EUR
Buczkiewicz
v. Poland
,
Case No. 10446/03
Pecuniary damage
Non-pecuniary damage
Costs and expenses
Total
-
-
Paid on 04/07/2008
Rosiński
v. Poland, Case No. 17373/02
Pecuniary damage
Non-pecuniary damage
Costs and expenses
Total
-
-
Paid on 20/11/2007
Tarnawczyk
v. Poland, Case No. 27480/02
Pecuniary damage
Non-pecuniary damage
Costs and expenses
Total
-
Paid on 25/05/2011
Pietrzak
v. Poland, Case No. 38185/02
Pecuniary damage
Non-pecuniary damage
Costs and expenses
Total
-
-
Paid on 03/09/2008
Skrzyński
v. Poland, Case No. 38672/02
Pecuniary damage
Non-pecuniary damage
Costs and expenses
Total
-
-
Paid on 22/01/2008
All local development plans adopted before 1 January 1995 (hereinafter “old plans”) which bore impact on the applicants’ rights, were repealed as of 1 January 2004 (see general measures).
In these circumstances, no other individual measure appears necessary.
General measures
On 1 January 1995, the Local Planning Act of 7 July 1994 entered into force (hereinafter the 1994 Act). Article 36 of the1994 Act provided that if, in relation with the adoption of a local development plan (hereinafter “local plan”) or its amendment, the use of real estate or its part in the previous manner or in accordance with its previous purpose, has become impossible or significantly limited, the owner or the perpetual user of the real estate may demand from the municipality that it either compensates the actual damage sustained or buys out the real estate or its part. Such claims may be compensated by way of restitution through an offer of an alternative real estate to the owner or the perpetual user. In such instances, the claims expire on the date of the conclusion of a contract of exchange. Moreover, if the value of a real estate has decreased in connection with the adoption of a local plan or its amendment, and the owner or perpetual user transfers this real estate and has not availed himself of the abovementioned rights, he may demand compensation from the municipality, equal to the decrease in the value of the real estate. Detailed rules concerning the calculation of the compensation by the municipality as well as the deadlines for the implementation of the obligations resulting from the reported claims are included in Article 36 of the 1994 Act.
To recapitulate, one can conclude that amendments introduced in the 1994 Act sufficiently protect the property rights guaranteed in the Constitution. On a side note, it should be noted that local plans as such do not concern and cannot determine issues pertaining to expropriation. Scope of the local plans is regulated by the laws in force. Based on these laws, local plans can determine the designation of the land for particular use as well as construction methods and conditions applicable on the land in question.
Analogous regulations pertaining to claims lodged by owners and perpetual users of a real estate are contained in Article 36 of the Local Planning and Development Act of 27 March 2003, in force as of 11
July 2003 (hereinafter “the 2003 Act”). At the same time, rules concerning the calculation and terms of payment of compensation are contained in Article 37 of the 2003 Act.
Pursuant to the rules on development planning currently in force, planning decisions must be taken in respect of the principle of proportionality – they need to balance the public and the individual interests. In order to achieve this, the planning procedure includes participation of all interested stakeholders, what includes participation in public discussion on the solutions adopted in local plans.
At the same time, pursuant to Article 87 § 3 of the 2003 Act, all local development plans adapted before 1
January 1995 (the so-called “old development plans”) that were still in force were repealed with effect from 1 January 2004. It should be noted that some of the “old plans” expired already on 1
January 2003 on the basis of Article 67 § 1 of the 1994 Act. Such an annulment applied to the old plans adopted in the communities which had failed to take up studies on the conditions and directions of the local development before the expiry of the time-limit of 8 years running from the date of the entry into force of the 1994 Act.
The annulment of a local development plan means that its provisions are no longer in force, thus cannot form a basis for any limitations on the owners in developing the land previously covered by the plans. The possibility to determine the use of land and construction conditions on the land where no local development is currently in force is prescribed in Article 4 (2) of the 2003 Act. The latter provision pertains in particular to instances when the old development plans ceased to operate whereas no new plan has been adopted.
To sum up, it should be noted that none of the old plans are in force and thereby they cannot form a basis for any limitations on the rights of the owners. In case a new local plan is adopted, which imposes limitations on the use of real estate in the previous manner or in accordance with its previous purpose, all owners affected by its provisions are entitled on equal footing and without any exceptions to obtain redress through compensation or restitution envisaged in Article 36 of the 2003 Act. Thus, the problem of the lack of compensation for owners whose properties had been allocated for the future public investments has been solved. All interim regulations in the field of local planning that were in force in the period of the Polish systemic transformation have already been repealed. Regulations currently binding ensure full respect for the property rights of individual owners affected by the provisions of local plans, including the right to appropriate compensation in instances when the local plan adopted prevents or seriously limits the use of real estate in the previous manner or in accordance with its previous purpose.
In these circumstances, no other general measure appears necessary.
III.
Conclusions of the responding State
The government considers that further individual measures are not necessary in the present case and that the general measures adopted will be sufficient to conclude that Poland has complied with its obligations under Article 46, paragraph 1 of the Convention.
[1]
Information submitted by the Polish authorities on
20 August 2013.