At its Human Rights meeting on 3-5 December, the Committee of Ministers welcomed the commitment of the Romanian authorities to thoroughly execute the judgments concerning the conditions of detention in Romania, notably in the Bragadireanu and Rezmives and Others group of cases.
The Committee noted with interest the information on the progress achieved, in particular in making available new premises to accommodate prisoners and welcomed the authorities’ continuing commitment to address the problems at the origin of the judgments in this group.
The Committee expressed satisfaction with the measures taken to combat reoffending and support social reintegration and welcomed the authorities’ initiative to rely on co-operation from the Council of Europe to strengthen the provision of health and mental health services to prisoners.
In addition, the Committee welcomed the consolidation of the jurisprudential compensatory remedy, thus addressing one of the main requirements for the execution of this group of cases, and encouraged the authorities to strengthen the role of the post-sentencing judge supervising the execution of sentences which could remedy various aspects related to material conditions of detention.
The Committee further took note of numerous submitted examples of recent domestic case-law illustrating the use of preventive remedy before the post-sentencing judge and asked the Secretariat to assess them.
The Committee decided to resume consideration and examine the information requested on outstanding issues and questions in this group of cases at their Human Rights meeting in December 2025.
