Raad van Europa: juridische procedures in Italië zijn onaanvaardbaar traag (en)
Strasbourg, 13.10.2005 - The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe continued today its examination of the execution of a large number of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights relating to the excessive length of judicial proceedings in Italy. The Committee discussed the fourth annual report of the Italian authorities (CM/Inf(2005)31 and addendum), presenting the efforts undertaken in order to solve this structural problem, and concluded that despite these efforts the problem of the excessive delays of Italian justice remained unsolved.
The Committee also discussed the measures announced by the Italian authorities in a special Action plan for civil and criminal justice (CM/Inf(2005)39) prepared to deal with this situation. It considered that this plan did not provide a sufficiently comprehensive response to the problem and discussed the possibility of setting up an ad hoc commission in Italy with the task of analyzing the problem and proposing the appropriate global solution. The Committee decided to pursue the examination of the situation on 29-30 November with a view to adopting an Interim resolution on this issue.
Under the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Court's judgments require the adoption by the respondent states, under the Committee supervision, of all measures necessary to grant the applicants appropriate redress and to prevent new similar violations in the future (http://www.coe.int/T/E/Human_Rights/execution/).
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