During its Human Rights meeting of 5-7 June 2023, the Committee of Ministers decided to partly end its supervision of the execution of the Strasbourg Court’s judgments in the Gazsó group of cases considering that no further general measures were required as regards the introduction of a compensatory remedy for contentious civil proceedings. This group of cases concerns the excessive length of judicial proceedings in civil, criminal and administrative matters, and the lack of effective domestic remedies in this respect.
The Committee took its decision in the light of the Court’s inadmissibility decision of March 2023 in Szaxon v. Hungary holding that the new compensatory remedy which entered into force on 1 January 2022 (Act no. XCIV of 2021) constitutes an effective remedy for protracted contentious civil proceedings. The Committee also noted with satisfaction the consolidation of the general positive trend regarding the length of proceedings before Hungarian domestic courts, as shown by the recently published CEPEJ data.
For more details, see the Court’s decision in the Szaxon case, as well as the CEPEJ EU Justice Scoreboard data on Hungary.
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