АДВОКАТСКАЯ ПАЛАТА РОСТОВСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ АДВОКАТ КРАКОВСКИЙ К.П.

То Soren Nielsen

Deputy Section Registrar

First Section

European Court of Human Rights

Strasbourg, France

 

12/07/2004

Application № 19589\02 PARKHOMOV v. Russia

Application № 40642\02 Denisenkov v. Russia

 

Dear Sir,

I am sending the translation of my observations from Russian into English (two applicants)

Enclosed

-         observation (Parkhomov) - 20 pages

-         - observation (Denisenkov) - 18 pages

-         determination of the Rostov Regional Court, dated 5, July, 2004 - 1 page

 

Krakovskiy Konstantm

Advocate

 

Перевод на русский вышеприведенного сопроводительного письма:

 

Сорену Нильсену, Секретаря (Грефье) Первой Секции ЕСПЧ

 

12 июля 2004

 

Сэр,

Высылаю Вам перевод на с русского на английский язык моих возражений (по двум заявителям):

- возражения по делу Пархомова – 20 страниц

- возражения по делу Денисенкова – 18 страниц

- копию определения Ростовского областного суда от 5 июля 2004 г. – 1 страница

 

Константин Краковский, адвокат

 

 

 

 

EUROPEAN  COURT

OF HUMAN RIGHTS

 

OBJECTIONS

TO THE MEMORANDUM

OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AUTHORITIES

on  the complain № 40642/02 « Denisenkov v.  Russia»

                                    

1.                      The circumstances of the case:

 

On 1 September 1987 the applicant Denisenkov Vladimir Nikolaevich was called up by the military authorities to take part in emergency operations at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster. The applicant was engaged in the operations from 6 September 1987 till 19 December 1987 and, as a result, suffered from extensive exposure to radioactive emissions. In 1994 he was established the disablement granted the compensation for the health hazard. The cause of disablement: “The multination was received during execution of other duties of military service, concerning the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster. Before 1 January 1999 the compensation of the health hazard was paid at the rate  based upon  the average earnings during the period of emergency operations at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station in accordance with p. 25 Article №  14 of the Law  №1244–1 of 15 May 1991 “SOCIAL DEFENSE OF CITIZENS, UNDERGONE THE EXPOSURE TO RADIOACTIVE EMISSIONS AS A RESULT OF CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION DISASTER.” (further - № 1244-1  Chernobyl NPS ) with the following editorships and changes. 

Since 01 January 1999 his  rate of  compensation of damages was reduced. The repeated  appeals to the agencies of social service about  the  restoration of the rate of compensation did not produce any effect and this compelled him  to appeal to the court.

On the 18 October 1999 Pervomaisky District Court (Первомайский районный суд) investigated the case materials and DECIDED:

1.                      To recover from Municipal Social Security Service (further - MSSS)  of Pervomaisky district of Rostov-on-Don (Муниципальное учреждение социальной защиты населения Первомайского района г. Ростова-на-Дону) the debt  of the compensation  for the period   from 1 January 1999 till 1 November 1999 in favor of Denisenkov V. N. – RUR 15,829.25.

2.                      To oblige the  MSSS of Pervomaisky district of Rostov-on-Don to make monthly payments in favour of Denisenkov V.N. as the compensation of health hazard as the consequence of the emergency operations at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster at the rate of  RUR 2,440.70 from 1 November 1999  till re-examination  with the increase of the rate of compensation in proportion to the increase of  minimal rate of payment.

 

On 6 December  1999 the Bailiff's Service (Служба судебных приставов) of Pervomaisky district of Rostov-on-Don instituted enforcement proceedings № 20802.

On 27 June 2000 the Bailiff's Service of Pervomaisky district of Rostov-ov-Don in reply to his require about the non-execution of Court’s decisions answered that the Social Security Service was underfunded.

On 15 February 2001 the law enforcement officer notified the applicant that even though the proceedings to enforce the judgment of 18 October 1999  were pending, the payments to the applicant could not be made because the Social Security Service was underfunded for the financing of these claims is not executed by Department of Economy and Finance of Rostov Regional Ministry of Labour (Управление Экономики и Финансов Министерства труда Ростовской области).

The  only month the compensation was completely paid is January 2000.

On 22 March 2001 the Bailiff's Service returned the writ of execution № 2-3876 of 18 October 1999 referring to the regulation of the government of 22 February 2001 № 143 and  delivered the enactment about the end of the enforcement proceedings.

On 22 March 2001 the applicant produced all the necessary documents to the Department of Exchequer (DE) of Pervomaisky district of Rostov-ov-Don (Отделение федерального казначейства по Первомайскому району г. Ростова-на-Дону) referring to the same regulation of the government.

On  26 March 2001 the DE returned the writ of execution  and other documents and notified about the possibility  to send  to the Ministry of Finance of Russian Federation (Министерство финансов Российской Федерации) the information and all necessary  documents  for the  satisfaction of claims, placed on the debtor as appendant responsibility.

On 06 April 2001  the Chief Justice of Pervomaisky District Court of Rostov-ov-Don  issued to the applicant the new writ of execution №2-3876/99 and explained that  according to the Article 348  of Code of Civil Procedure of RSFLR for the real execution  of the Court’s decision of 18 October 1999 the writ of execution  should be delivered to the Bailiff's Service of Pervomaisky district of Rostov-ov-Don.

After the repeated  delivery of all the necessary documents to the DE it has notified  on 11 April 2001 that  the personal account  of MSSC was not opened in DE of Pervomaisky district of Rostov-on-Don by  the Administration of the Regional Department of Exchequer of Ministry of Finance of Russian Federation (Управление Федерального казначейства Минфина Российской Федерации по Ростовской области) and returned the writ of execution  and other documents.

On 11 May 2001 by the decision of the Justice of the Peace  the indexation of the amount  of the compensation unpaid was recovered for the period from 01 January 1999 till  01 February 2001 at the rate RUR 3,562.13 and the debts at the rate RUR 18,556.24.

On 22 October 2001  the Federal Court of Pervomaisky district of Rostov-ov-Don reversed the decision of 11 May 2001  on appeal and recovered from the MSSS of Pervomaisky district of Rostov-ov-Don the indexation of the amount  of the untimely compensation for the period from 01 November 1999 till  01 September 2001 at the rate of RUR 6,341.73 and the indexation of the amount  of the compensation  partially paid for the  period from 01 November 1999 till  01 September 2001 at the rate RUR 8,505.47, sum total RUR 14,847.20.

On 15 November 2001 the Bailiff's Service of Pervomaisky district of Rostov-ov-Don delivered the enactment about the enforcement of proceedings № 15070.

On 13 December 2001 in response to the inquiry of Denisenkov V. N.  the respondent (MSSS)  informed that  “Since march 2001 the financing  according the decision of the court addressed to you  was not stated as the Federal Law № 5-FL  of 12 February 2001 came into effect from 15 February 2001 “The alterations and add-ins to the FL “Social defense of citizens, undergone the exposure to radioactive emissions as a result of Chernobyl nuclear power station disaster”. According to the law mentioned  you are paid fixed amount at the rate of RUR 2,500.00 (two thousand and five hundred).

The Bailiff's Service in response to the inquiry of Denisenkov V. N.  of 03 December 2001 notified that “According to the Law of 7 August 2000 № 122-FL “The order of determination of scholarships and social payments in RF” starting from 1 January 2001  the amount of the compensation of the damages was indexed  starting from the basic amount RUR 100  and make RUR 2,923.96 in total.

The  new FL № 5-FL of 12 February 2001  came into effect  since 15 February 2002.

… Because of the fact you have not put in the written request  to the MSSS about the payment of  the monthly amount prescribed before, MSSS  of Pervomaisky district of Rostov-on-Don MSSS since march 2001 began paying  in your favour  the fixed amount according to your group of  disablement.

According to the decision of the  Federal Court of Pervomaisky district of Rostov-on-Don of 25 December 2002 Denisenkov V. N. was refused the indexation of other monthly and annually payment  (paid in spite of the  monthly compensation of the damages) in proportion of the increase  of the minimal size of payment.

The Court notified that  this payment  is social and has the other order of indexation that is not connected with the minimal size of payment.

The decision of Federal Court  of Pervomaisky district of Rostov-ov-Don of 25 December 2002  was left effective by the decision of the Rostov Regional Court (Ростовский областной суд) and the cassation of Denisenkov V.N. was not allowed.

 

The decision of Federal Court  of Pervomaisky district of Rostov-on-Don of 6 March 2003 (according to the application of MSSS of Rostov-on-Don)  the Court clarified the decision of   Federal Court  of Pervomaisky district of Rostov-on-Don of 18 October 1999  particularly the court came to the conclusion  that “Monthly payments awarded to Denisenkov V. N. as the compensation of health hazard in 1999 are the social payments, and should be indexed not in the proportion to the minimal size of payment in centralized order, but  based upon the basic sum RUR 100,00.

We believe that in fact the Court did not notify but changed  the  core of the Court’s decision of 18 October 1999  because

- the  law-definition “basic amount” did not exist in 1999. It first appeared in July of 2000, that is,  in 1999 court put in the decision the meaning, that could not  exist in principle.

-“basic amount” did not cancel the existence of such a  law-definition as minimal size of payment determined in centralized order.

By introducing the definition “basic sum” the definition minimal size of payment left independent as well as the criteria  of indexation of civil payments for the recovery of damages (he was deprived from this function  from 29 November 2002 after the introduction of alterations to the Civil Code of RF, at that moment the minimal size of payment was RUR 450 a month)

Per se Pervomaisky District Court  delivered the new decision  without reversing  the decision of 18 October1999. The court retrained the monthly payment from the civil payment indexed according to minimal size of payment into social payment, indexed according to the  basic amount.

We believe that new decision of the court may be delivered only on appeal of the decision of 18 October 1999:

-in the procedure of  supervision

-in the procedure of newly-discovered evidence

In fact by the  retrial of the decision of 18 October1999 Pervomaisky District Court  violated the principle of  legal confidence, the principle of “decided case”, the principle of “res judicata”.

On the 3 June 2004  Presidium of Rostov Regional Court reversed the decision of Pervomaisky District Court  of 6 March 2003 and  send it for futher consideration. The decision of Pervomaisky District Court  of 6 March 2003 was delivered on the application of МSSS about the  clarification of the court decision.

So there are two decision of Pervomaisky District Court  that came into effect: decision of 18 October 1999 and 22 October 2001 about the compensation (the questions of the European Court concern this payment) in favour of Denisenkov V.N.

 

2. National legislation (extracts)

 

1.                      Code of Civil Procedure of RSFLR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) of 1964, valid up to 1 of February 2003.

 

“Article 13. Obligation of legal act 

Justice of the Peace  and federal courts adopt legal acts in the form of legal court orders,  decrees, decisions.

Legal acts that came into effect … of federal courts … are obligatory for all State Public Authorities and Local Authorities without exception, …officials, private persons and judicial persons and should be executed undeviatingly over the whole territory of Russian Federation. Non-execution of these acts as well as any other display of disrespect for the court should entail a responsibility according to the federal law.”

 

“Article 208. Court decision’s coming into effect

The decision of Justice of the Peace after the end of the term of  an appeals  and the decision of the  federal court   after the end of the term of  an cassations come into effect, unless they were  appealed against. If  appeal or cassation is filed  the decision of Justice of the Peace  or decision of the federal court unless abolished come into  effect  after the hearing of the case in higher court.

Each party in the case has the right to claim the alteration of  payment’s rate and period after the courts decision, imposing  recurrent payment, coming  into effect  the conditions that influence the  determination of payment’s amount  and period change.

 

2.                      Code of Civil Procedure of RF 1964, valid from  1 of February 2003.

“Article 13. Obligation of court act

1. Courts adopt legal acts in the form of legal court orders,  decrees, decisions.

2. Legal acts that came into effect that came into effect as well as court orders, requests, instructions, subpoenas, adresses are obligatory for all State Public Authorities and Local Authorities, associations, officials, private persons, organizations without exeption and should be executed undeviatingly over the whole territory of Russian Federation.

3. Non-execution of court’s decision as well as any other display of disrespect for the court should entail a responsibility according to the federal law.”

 

“Article 209. Court decision’s coming into effect

1. The decision of the court after the end of the term of  an appeals and cassations come into effect, if not appealed against.

If  appeal is filed  the decision of Justice of the Peace unless abolished come into  effect  after the hearing of the case in district court. In case district court reverse of amend  the decision of Justice of the Peace and the new decision was delivered it comes into effect immediately.

If  cassation  is filed  the decision of the Court unless abolished come into  effect  after the hearing of  the case in higher court…

3. Each party in the case has the right to claim the alteration of  payment’s rate and period after the courts decision, imposing  recurrent payment, coming  into effect  the conditions that influence the  determination of payment’s rate and period change.

 

 

3.                      Federal Law on Enforcement Proceeding of 21  July 1997, № 119-FL.

 

“Article 3. Organs of enforcement

 

1.                      Enforcement of legal acts and acts of other organs in Russian Federation is given on the Bailiff Service (Службу судебных приставов)  and the Bailiff Services of Law Enforcement Agencies of Subjects of Russian Federation (Службы судебных приставов органов юстиции субъектов Российской Федерации).

 

“Article 5. Other organs and organization that execute the requirements of legal acts and acts of other organs 

1. The requirements of legal acts and acts of other organs of the recovery of damages  are executed by the Tax organs, Banks and other Credit institutions, in cases provided by federal law.

2. The requirements of legal acts and acts of other organs can be executed by the other organs, organizations, officials and private citizens in cases provided by federal law.

3. The organs provided by paragraphs 1,2  in the present article should not be the organs of enforcement.

 

“Article 13. The terms of executive activity 

1.                      Executive actions should be implemented and the requirements contained in writ of execution should be executed by the court bailiff in two months term since the receipt of the writ of execution.

 

Legal nature of payment.

 

The legal nature of payment awarded in favour of  persons suffered   because of participation in emergency operations at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster is of fundamental importance  for the ascertainment of the fact of State’s  breach of obligation and establishment just compensation for this violation.

From our point of view, in reply to the questions or European Court  the Commissioner  of Russian Federation  started with  incorrect statement of point at issue. In accordance with this point of issue the decision of Pervomaisky district Court of 18 February  1999  and other decisions by the cases of applicants of this case  were delivered: “In 1998-2002 there were delivered decisions concerning applicants that oblige the appropriate social security services to index their amount of  social payment and compensate debts for these payments taking into consideration the indexation”. (p.3)

We believe that point of issue between Denisenkov V. N. and the State  in  Pervomaiski district Court of Rostov-on-Don in 1999 was:

- not the issue of indexation

- not the issue of social payment

- so, it was not the issue that arise from  public relationships  between Denisenkov V.N. and the State.

The real point at issue between Denisenkov V. N. and the State  in 1999 was the issue of the fact – what is a real amount of earnings lost as a consequence of disability as a result of extensive exposure to radioactive emissions received  during the emergency operations at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster.

So  this was a usual civil tort suit arisen from private relationships between Denisenkov V. N. and the State.

    

 

3. The argumentation:

 

The medical commission of experts determined to Denisenkov V. N. disability at the rate of 80 % and established the link between the applicant's poor health and the fact that he was sent by the State to take part in emergency operations at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster.  

The Russian civil legislation determine that, in case of disability as the consequence of harm  done  to his health (as the result of the tort), the  tortfeasor must compensate the damage to the victim at the rate of his lost earnings that he had before the accident. The compensation of the damage in consequence of the  tort is set for the whole period of the disability,  in case of stable disability - permanently.

According to the Chernobyl legislation, from  2 March 1996 the duty of  the calculation and payment of monthly sums of compensation of the damages to invalids in consequence of Chernobyl catastrophe  was imposed on  the state agencies of social service or the other state agencies, empowered for this by the Government of Russian Federation. The law establishes that all these payments are made at the expenses of the federal budget.

But the Chernobyl Law didn’t contain the rules of calculation of the lost earnings of invalid of Chernobyl. It has set only the invalid’s right of compensation of  the lost earnings, established the source of financing and determined the state agencies  that had to calculate this compensation and pay it on behalf of the State.

The law in the part of determination of the rate of the lost earnings referred to the rules of civil law, that regulates the compensation in case of damages during execution of work, that is  to rules of Chapter 59 of Civil Code of RF and ” Rules of compensation by employers the damage, caused by the injury, professional disease or the other harm of the  health, concerned with the execution of work”, confirmed by the decision of Supreme Court of  Russian Federation of  24 December 1992 № 4214-1(with changes of 24 November 1995 enacted by Federal Law №180-FL), that were valid at  that time.

Several variants of calculation of  the rate of payment of the lost earnings were set  by rules of CC (Civil Code)  of RF and “ Rules of compensation “, and it was stipulated that the right of choice between these variants belong  to the victim.

As Denisenkov V. N.  thought, during the calculation of the lost earnings, the agency of social security used not the most favourable way of calculation of the rate of the lost earnings and the agency refused to recalculate the rate of the lost earnings voluntarily, on ground of what Denisenkov V. N.  in 1999 had to appeal to the Court  with civil tort suit with the request to oblige the State to set him  the higher rate of compensation of the lost earnings, in comparison with the rate that was set  by the agency of social service voluntarily.

So in 1999 the Court considered the dispute between Denisenkov V. N.  and the State about the  legal rate of the lost earnings in consequence of tort.

Denisenkov V. N.  as well as the Commissioner of the State, and the Court itself that considered his case in 1998-2000, regarded his suit just as civil, originated  from the fort; the suit, that has the private legal essence, but not as a claim to index the rate of social payment due to him, that has public-legal essence.

During the delivery of  the decision of the 18 October 1999, the Court referred to legal grounds of Court’s decisions on Article 1085 CC RF (p. 4 of the Court’s decision) and Articles 11, 13 “Rules of compensation by employers the damage, caused by the injury, professional disease or the other harm of the  health, concerned with the execution of work”(page 3 of the Court’s decision).

 

Just on the grounds of this regulations of civil law, the court agreed with Denisenkov V. N.  that the State really made a mistake in determination of the lost earnings.

Just on grounds of it the Court obliged the State to pay to Denisenkov V. N. the compensation of the lost earnings every month, in consequence of the fort on the other variants, more profitable for Denisenkov V. N., that is RUR 2,440.7 a month for October 1999.

So, the decision of 18 October, final and obligatory for the execution between  Denisenkov V. N. and the State Russia has established the private-legal relationships, it means the legal relationships of two equal in rights persons, but not the relationships between Payer (The State) and Receiver (Denisenkov V.N..) some social payment.

 

 As there were established the private-legal relationships between the State and Denisenkov V. N. by the Court, so finally the Court obliged the State to increase the awarded monthly payment in proportion to increasing of the size of minimal rate of payments in centralized order, as it was specified by the articles 318 and 1091 CC RF and by the article 11 ” Rules of compensation by employers the damage, caused by the injury, professional disease or the other harm of the  health, concerned with the execution of work”.

 

So the attempt of the authorities of Russian Federation to present in Memorandum the argue between Denisenkov V. N. and the State, on which the decision of the Court of 18 October was delivered, as the argue, arising from the public-legal relationships about the incorrect indexation of the social payment, has the purpose to rehabilitate the State for non-execution of the Court’s decisions, delivered by  tort suit.

 

The point is that the monthly payment awarded to Denisenkov V. N. was indexated  only once – from 1 January 2001 for the coefficient 1,198.

This coefficient is not the coefficient of increasing of minimal rate of the payment (minimal rate of payment from 1 January 2001 was increased in 1,515 times - from RUR 132 to 200), but the coefficient of social payment.

 

Trying to pay to Denisenkov V. N., the awarded monthly payment at the rate of RUR 2,440.7 as a social payment, the authorities of Russian Federation  prove that:

- Denisenkov V. N. was awarded social payment by the decision of the Court of 18.10.1999 as he required.

 - the Court pointed that this social payment  is to be indexed in future

-  and the State has indexed this social payment from the 1 January 2001 in 1,198%  and as a result the rate of this social payment is RUR 2,923.96 a month.

So they suppose that the decision of the court in the part of consequent indexation is completely executed.

In fact, as it is mentioned above, the court awarded in favour of Denisenkov V. N.  not a Social payment, but civil compensation of damages as the consequence of the tort. According to the decision of the court the following indexation is to be done not in the order established for the social payment but in the order established  for the indexation of civil payments. The court provided the concrete order in it’s decision – the awarded monthly payment  should be increased in future in proportion to  the increasing of minimal rate of payment.

From 1999 the monthly payment awarded to Denisenkov V. N. has never been increased in proportion to  the increasing of minimal rate of payment.

And this prove that the decision of Pervomaisky District Court  of  Rostov-on-Don of 18 October 1999 in the part  of the future indexation of monthly payments in favour of Denisenkov V. N. in proportion to  the increasing of minimal rate of payment in centralized order is not completely executed.

 

 

4. The Court’s decisions and their real execution (non-execution).

 

I. The decision of  Pervomaisky District Court of Rostov-on-Don of 18 October 1999, that was not appealed against and came into effect from 29 October 1999.  The amounts that must have been redressed in favour of Denisenkov V.N.:

- one-time payment – RUR 15,829. 25

- monthly payment at the rate of RUR 2,440.7 from 1 November 1999

- monthly payment for the future at the rate of RUR 2,440.7, that must be increased in proportion to  the increasing of minimal rate of payment in centralized order.

 

The execution of this decision:

- The recovered one time amount at the rate of RUR 15,829.25 (the debt for the previous period of time before the delivery of the court’s decision) was paid  to Denisenkov V. N.  31 May 2002, that is in 2 years, 7 months and 2 days after the decision of the Court came into effect.

 

As for the monthly payments, in fact instead of RUR 2,440.7 he was paid:

instead of 2440, 7 he was monthly paid :

- from November 1999 till December 2000  the amount RUR 1,370.44  a month (the only exclusion – January 2000-it was paid the prescribed amount that is RUR 2,440.7)

- for January 2001 – RUR 1,641.71

- for February 2001 – RUR 2,070.9

- for the period from March 2001 till July 2002 – RUR 2,500.00 a month

- from August 2001 till July 2002 – RUR 2,500.00 a month

- from August 2002 – RUR 2,923.96 a month, the amount he receives at the present time

At the time of the delivery of the court’s decision of 18 October 1999 the minimal rate of payment was RUR 83.49 a month. After the delivery of the court’s decision  of 18 October 1999 the minimal rate of payment was changed  in centralised order in the following way:

-                     RUR 132.00 from  1 July 2000 (the coefficient of increasing is 1,581=132:83,49)

-                     RUR 200.00 from  1 January 2001 (the coefficient of increasing is 1,515=200:132)

-                     RUR 300.00 from  1 July 2001 (the coefficient of increasing is 1,5=300:200)

-                     RUR 450.00 from  1 May 2002 (the coefficient of increasing is 1,5=450:300)

-                     RUR 600.00 from  1 October 2003 (the coefficient of increasing is 1,333=600:450)

 

Neither of these  increasing of minimal size of payment was applied for the increasing of the monthly payment at the rate of RUR 2,440.7 awarded in favor of Denisenkov V. N.

 

Therefore on the question of the European Court (1.a.) – whether the amount awarded by the decision of 18.10.1999  at the rate of  RUR 15,829.25  was paid totally  and in proper time we answer that  by this time this amount was paid completely  but not at the proper time  with 2 years,  5 months and 2 days delay  in comparison with legal terms of payment.

On the question of the European Court (1.b.) – whether Denisenkov V.N. received monthly payments awarded by the decision of 18.10.1999  completely  and in proper time we answer that during the period since November 1999 till now he received monthly payment  at the rate of RUR 2,440.7 completely and in proper time only once - in January 2000.

- before March 2001 he received monthly payment below  the rate he was awarded by the decision of 18.10.1999  and only after March 2001 the rate of this payment was slightly  increased.

  On the question of the European Court (1.c.) – whether the indexation of payments at the rate of RUR 2,440.7 in proportion to the minimal size of payment in centralized order as it was awarded  by the decision of 18.10.1999  was carried out completely and in proper time we answer that after the delivery of the decision of the Court  the minimal size of payment was increased in centralized order  for the first time from 1 July 2000, 1 January 2001, 1 July 2001, 1 May 2002, 1 October 2003.

The monthly payment awarded  by the decision of 18.10.1999  at the rate of RUR 2,440.7 has never been increased in proportion to the minimal size of payment till now.

Instead  of this the State has indexed  this payment only once  - in January 2001 in 1,198 times (according to the coefficient determined for the increasing of social payment, but not for the increasing of minimal size of payment  in centralized order).

Therefore  in our opinion  the   decision of the Court of 18.10.1999  concerning  the  following indexation of the payment awarded in proportion to the increasing minimal size of payment  in centralized order  is not still executed.  The delay of execution of the Court’s decision  in this part  is 3 years and 11 months ( since 1 July 2000 the day of the first increasing of minimal size of payment  in centralized  order till 1 June 2004).

 

Legitimate (awarded by the decision of the Court of 18 October 1999)  rate of monthly payment)  awarded in favour of Denisenkov V.N. had to be changing  in proportion to the minimal size of payment  in the following way:

-from  1 July 2000 – RUR 3,858.75 a month (2440,7*1,587 – the coefficient of  the increasing minimal size of payment  (the rate was changed from RUR 83.49 to 132.00)

-from  1 January 2001 – RUR 5,846.01 a month (3858,75*1,515 – the coefficient of the increasing minimal size of payment  (the rate was changed from RUR 132.00 to 200.00)

-from  1 July 2001 – RUR 8,769.02 a month (5846,01*1,5 – the coefficient of the increasing minimal size of payment  (the rate was changed from RUR 200.00 to 300.00)

-from  1 May 2002 – RUR 13,153.53 a month (8769,02*1,5 – the coefficient of the increasing minimal size of payment  (the rate was changed from RUR 300.00 to 450.00)

-from  1 October 2003 – RUR 17,533.66 a month (13153,53*1,333 – the coefficient of the increasing minimal size of payment  (the rate was changed from 450.00 to 600.00)

Consequently  instead of  legitimate monthly payment awarded by the decision of the Court of 18 October 1999 that increase in proportion to minimal size of payment  and  amounts to  the rate of RUR 17,533.66 a month (from 1 October 2003) Denisenkov V.N. receive  at the present moment only RUR 2,923.96 a month,  that  is only  one sixth of the legitimate amount.

 

II. The decision on appeal of Pervomaisky District Court of Rostov-on-Don of 22 October 2001

The Federal Court  of Pervomaisky District of Rostov-on-Don as a  Court of Appeal reversed the decision of the Justice of the Peace  of 11 May 2001 and delivered new decision that recover in favour of Denisenkov V.N.:

-the indexation of debts for the untimely payment of the compensation of damages (awarded by the decision of  the Federal Court  of Pervomaisky District Court of Rostov-on-Don) from 1 November 1999 till 1 September  2001 at the rate of RUR 6,341.73  and  indexation of compensation of damages in view of their partial payment  for the period from 1 November 1999 till 1 September  2001 at the rate of RUR 8,505.47,  one-time sum total 14847,2. 

 

The execution of this Court’s decision:

 

Awarded one-time payment at the rate of RUR 14,847.2  was paid to Denisenkov V.N.  2 July 2002 that is with 8 months and 11 days delay in comparison with legal term of the Court’s decision’s execution.

 

On the question of the European Court (1.b.) – whether the presumptive rejection of the State to execute the decisions the Federal Court  of Pervomaisky District Court of Rostov-on-Don  of 18 November 1999 and 22 October 2001  completely and in proper time  is compatible with Article 6 of the Convention and Article 1 of the Protocol № ! of the Convention (see Burdov v. Russia, number 59498/00, paragraph 34,35,40,41, ECHR 2002-IH) one should answer unambiguously that it is not.

 

5. Our arguments are the following

 

It is asserted in the Memorandum, that the claim of my principal  as well as the claims of other five  applicants  on this “united case” is evidently groundless  by implication of  p. 3 Article 35 of the Convention.

The stated paragraph read as follows “The Court shall declare inadmissible any individual application…which it considers incompatible with the provisions of the Convention or the protocols thereto, manifestly ill-founded…” Regarding the definition “manifestly ill-founded” there is a wide practice of the European Commission and European Court of Human Rights. Corresponding case law at the present time  verify that  the claim  is considered manifestly ill-founded in case  no violation of rights and freedoms prima facie according to Convention is found during it’s consideration.(See №524/19, Dec.19.12.60.-Yearbook 3 p. 322(336-338); № 2689/65, Dec. 7.2.67.-Yearbook 10, p. 238 (278)

The  given conclusion of the Memorandum  contradict not only Convention but  the foregone text of the Memorandum. Without direct answer  to the question put to Authorities of the Russian Federation  by the European Court of the Human Rights  “Whether  the decisions of the Court delivered in favour of the applicants were executed completely and in proper time” they (authorities) replied evasively that “at the present time  the decisions of the Court delivered in favour of the applicants were executed”. (p.3)

The following description of the Court decision’s execution order in Memorandum, 2-4 years after the delivery, as well as the facts of the offers of amicable agreement on terms of 3000 payment  to each of applicants  by  the Russian Federation  for the delay of execution is, in our opinion,  the confession  by the authorities of Russian Federation de facto  the violation of  Article 6 and Article 1 of the Protocol of the Convention (from the standpoint of decision “Burdov v. Russia”)

The order of calculation of the compensation  and  the rate of the compensation for the delay of the compensation  (as it was written in amicable agreement  with one of the applicants of this case Leonov O.N.) with the reference to the case Burdov v. Russia marginally confirm  the confession by the authorities of Russian Federation the similar violation of the Convention.

In the Memorandum the delay of payments is explained by “the procedural actions on appeal the decisions of the Court, as well as the absence in 1998-2001 in the  federal budget  the funds for the execution of  such decisions”.  However the European Court in the judgment “Burdov v. Russia” notified that “State authorities should not refer to the absence of funds as the  justification of the  non-paying the debt by the decision of the Court. ”

Article 6 § 1 of the Convention.

It was pointed out in the judgment of European Court “Burdov v. Russian Federation”: “Article 6 § 1 secures to everyone the right to have any claim relating to his civil rights and obligations brought before a court or tribunal; in this way it embodies the “right to a court”, of which the right of access, that is the right to institute proceedings before courts in civil matters, constitutes one aspect. However, that right would be illusory if a Contracting State's domestic legal system allowed a final, binding judicial decision to remain inoperative to the detriment of one party… Execution of a judgment given by any court must therefore be regarded as an integral part of the “trial” for the purposes of Article 6.

Consequently,  the absence  for a long time  active actions from the authorities of Russian Federation  towards the execution of Court’s decisions awarding  the compensation in favour of Denisenkov V.N/Parkhomov A.A. on the grounds of the loss of the health  that came into effect contradict to the Article 6 § 1 of the Convention; this “inactivity deprived it from positive effect”, similarly to the case of Burdow.

Article 1 Protocol 1 of the Conventiont is said about “peaceful enjoyment of his possessions”.  It  presumes that the obstruction  of the article 1 can take place  in case when the property  or belongings was not damaged but was not given the possibility  of freely using of this property in the Article 1 Protocol  1 of the Convention (that is the violation  one of the three rulings logically containing in Article 1 of the Protocol 1 of the Convention (see, Case “Sporrong and Lonroth v. Sweden”//A52(1982)

By it’s inactivity, that continued for a long time regarding real execution of the delivered court’s decisions the State changed the right of property on the amount due to my applicant into the fiction. That is per se it has deprived him from  this right, made it  useless,  and in consequence this right may be considered alienable.

The violated right  of  demand from the court’s decisions  is considered by the European Court of Human Rights  a violation of the right of property. The State broke it’s positive obligations towards the proprietor by not undertaking  actions towards  of the Court’s decisions execution, that awarded the recovery of fixed sum of money in favour of private person.

So it should be admitted, that  in this case  there is the violation of Article 1 of the Protocole 1 of the Convention  by  Russian Federation.

 

The application of Article 41  of the Convention.

Article 41  of the Convention notify: “If the Court finds that there has been a violation of the Convention or the protocols thereto, and if the internal law of the High Contracting Party concerned allows only partial reparation to be made, the Court shall, if necessary, afford just satisfaction to the injured party”.

 

Compensation by the decision of the Court.

According to the rule 60 of the  Regulations  of  European Court any  requirement  of just recovery  should be itemed and  delivered  in writing  along with the appropriate sustaining documents.

We  point out to the Court, that the applicant  bore not only direct but non-property (moral) damages as a result of violation  of the Convention  by Russian Federation, that  took place , in our opinion. And the damages should  be compensated  not only by recognition by  the State, but by money means.

 

The calculation of just compensation.

 

-for the delay of execution of the court’s decision  of 18 October1999  in the payment of awarded one time  amount we request you to deliver the decision that  Russian Federation  should pay  the compensation of moral damages at the rate of EUR 3,000

-for the delay of execution of the court’s decision  of 22 October 2001 we request you to oblige Russian Federation  to compensate the moral damages at the rate of  EUR 1,000

- for the non-execution of the court’s decision  of 18 October 1999  of indexation of monthly payment in proportion of minimal size of payment we request you to oblige Russian Federation

 

-to compensate to Denisenkov V.N.  direct damages at the rate of RUR 346,052.03 according to the calculation, that comes with.

-to pay monthly to Denisenkov V.N. from 1 April 2004  RUR 17,533 with subsequent indexation

 

The possibility of amicable adjustment.

 

● it is asserted in the Memorandum that Denisenkov V.N. was offered to conclude an amicable agreement on conditions that he would be compensated damages for the untimely execution of the court’s decisions on the basis of EUR 1,500 for a year. Allegedly  Denisenkov V.N. refused from the conclusion of an agreement  and  laid down counter conditions that were  not based  on the decisions of the court or the legislation of Russian Federation. And allegedly Denisenkov V.N. refused from the further discussion of offers concerning the rate of  compensation. In witness of this fact the  Commissioner  refer to the Statement of 9 April 2004.

● we were very surprised  by such  statement of negotiations about the possibility of amicable settlement of the issue.

● indeed  in April 2004 Denisenkov V.N. was  invited to the meeting to the  Municipal Social Security Service of Pervomaisky district of Rostov-on-Don . He was not informed of the purpose of the meeting, that’s why the lawyer of the applicant Krakovsky K.P. was not invited.

● indeed  Denisenkov V.N. was offered to conclude an amicable agreement on conditions aforesaid, that is – he was offered one time compensation of moral (non-property) damages at the rate of EUR 3,000 on conditions that he would entirely withdraw his claim from the European Court and  declare that he has no more claims against Russian Federation.

● in response Denisenkov V.N. stated that he regard the possibility of amicable adjustment of the dispute  on   his claim to the European Court very positively, but he has a lawyer  and he would like to discuss the conditions of  amicable adjustment  with his participation. Denisenkov V.N. asked to hand him over the offers of amicable adjustment  in writing  and the draft of an amicable agreement for him to deliver it to his lawyer. But he was turned down. During the negotiations Denisenkov V.N. made a sound recording using Dictaphone, the representatives of State (officials) did not object. The recording  of the negotiations of 9 April 2004 comes with.

● on 12 of April 2004 Denisenkov V.N.  filed  to the Municipal Social Security Service of Pervomaisky district of Rostov-ov-Don his offers of the conditions of  amicable adjustment  in writing  with the enclosure  of detailed calculation, and he filed them not as an ultimatum, but as the offers to discuss.

● on 15 of April Denisenkov V.N.  received the answer in writing to his offers from 12 of April 2004. In this answer he was informed, that:

“1. MSSS of Pervomaisky district of Rostov-on-Don does not participate in the case of claim  you filed to the European Court of Human Rights,  consequently it does not have due authority  to  consider your offers of  amicable adjustment.

2.                      MSSS of Pervomaisky district of Rostov-on-Don is not entitled to manage the budgetary funds. It is the final phase in the cash flow and it can not change the purpose or influence the distribution. Our establishment is not competent to settle a question of  paying the sums you offered.

● on 13 April 2004 one more meeting took place. The officials of the Ministry of Labor and Social Development of Rostov region (Министерство труда и социального развития Ростовской области) – Petrova Lubov Ivanovna and Yartsev Vladimir Leonidovich participated in the meeting from the side of the State. During the discussion of the conditions of  amicable adjustment  the deputy chief and legal expert of Municipal Social Security Service of Pervomaisky district of Rostov-on-Don  were present.

● the applicant and his lawyer informed the  Secretariat of European Court about the content and result of these negotiations, therefore I will repeat in brief -  during the discussion of the conditions of  amicable adjustment the representatives of the State  declared there are entitled to discuss the  possible payment of moral damages compensation as the consequence of the delay of execution of the court’s decision  of 18 October1999  and 22 October 2001.

● on our direct question – whether they are entitled  to discuss all the questions put by the European Court, the representatives of the State answered that they are not.

● on our direct question – whether the question of the moral damages compensation can be settled separately from the other questions put by the European Court, the representatives of the State answered that they offer free-will compensation of moral damages at the rate of 3000 in exchange for unconditional refusal from the appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.

 on our direct question – what is their evaluation of offers filed by Denisenkov V.N. in writing the representatives of the State again answered that they are not entitled to discuss anything beyond the questions of the moral damages.

● we expressed regret, that the authorities of the representatives of the State keep from the  discussion of all the questions put by the European Court and expressed a desire that this position would be reported to the direction.

● also we informed them, that we looked forward to one more meeting  during which we would be able to discuss all the questions put by European Court and work out mutually acceptable conditions of  amicable adjustment.

● on 13 April 2004 during the negotiations Denisenkov V.N. made a sound recording using dictaphone, the representatives of State (officials) did not object. The recording  of the negotiations of 13 April 2004 comes with.

● on 22 April 2004 Denisenkov V.N. one more time filed the proposals of the amicable adjustment in writing on the claim filed to the European Court, to the Ministry of Labor and Social Development of Rostov region

● Denisenkov V.N. was informed by the letter from Ministry of Labor and Social Development of Rostov region № МП/677 of 13 May 2004 that the meetings were held with him within the competence of the officials of Ministry of Labor and Social Development of Rostov region.

 

On the grounds of the mentioned above, we believe that the amicable  adjustment was not concluded  between Denisenkov V.N. and the State Russian Federation only because of the representatives of the State.

As far as we are concerned,  Denisenkov V.N. and me, his lawyer, we are sure that there was such possibility.

Besides we declare that we are ready to discuss with the representatives of the State the possibilities of reasonable conditions of amicable adjustment of the claim filed to the European Court at the present moment.

On such conditions we believe that the Statement of 9.04.2004 about the fact that Denisenkov V.N. refused from the possibility to reach amicable adjustment of the claim filed to the European Court represent the incorrect view of  the developments that took place.

 

On the grounds of aforesaid, I  request European Court of Human Rights to:

 

1.                      Consider Denisenkov V.N. the victim of the violation of Article 6 par. 1 of the European Convention and Article 1 of  the Protocol  № 1 of the Convention by the State.

2.                      Consider the appeal of Denisenkov V.N. to the European Court  acceptable according to the Article  29 of the Convention.

3.                      Deliver according to the Article 41 of the European Convention the resolution that oblige Russian Federation to pay just compensation  at the rate mentioned above.

4.                      Solve the question of  the compensation by the State services of the legal adviser of the applicant.

 

 

Legal adviser                                            K.P. Krakovsky

 

 

 

 

 

 

Appendix:

 

THE CALCULATION

OF  DIRECT DAMAGES,

 

beared  by Denisenkov V.N., on account of non-execution of the Court,s decision of 18 October 1999, in the part of absence of indexation in proportion to minimal size of payment

(the appendix to objections to Memorandum of RF Authorities)

                                                                                                                            

Month and

year

 

 

 

 

The legal amount of the monthly payment, rub.

 

 

Paid , rub.

( here are pointed not the sums paid in time but the sums, paid for the corresponding month taking into consideration later  additional payment for this month)

Underpaid, rub.

  July 2000

3,858,75

 2440,7

1418,05

  August 2000 

3,858,75

2440,7

1418,05

September 2000

3858,75

2440,7

1418,05

 October 2000

3858,75

2440,7

1418,05

 November 2000

3858,75

2440,7

1418,05

 December 2000

5846,01

2440,7

1418,05

 January 2001

5846,01

2923,96

2922,04

 February 2001

5846,01

2923,96

2922,04

 March 2001

5846,01

2923,96

2922,04

 April 2001

5846,01

2923,96

2922,04

 May 2001

5846,01

2923,96

2922,04

 June 2001

5846,01

2923,96

2922,04

 July 2001

8769,02

2923,96

5845,06

 August 2001

8769,02

2923,96

5845,06

September 2001

8769,02

2923,96

5845,06

 October 2001

8769,02

2923,96

5845,06

 November 2001

8769,02

2923,96

5845,06

 December 2001

8769,02

2923,96

5845,06

 January 2002

8769,02

2923,96

5845,06

 February 2002

8769,02

2923,96

5845,06

 March 2002

8769,02

2923,96

5845,06

 April 2002

8769,02

2923,96

5845,06

 May 2002

13153,53

2923,96

10229,57

 June 2002

13153,53

2923,96

10229,57

 July 2002

13153,53

2923,96

10229,57

 August 2002

13153,53

2923,96

10229,57

September 2002

13153,53

2923,96

10229,57

 October 2002

13153,53

2923,96

10229,57

 November 2002

13153,53

2923,96

10229,57

 December 2002

13153,53

2923,96

10229,57

 January 2003

13153,53

2923,96

10229,57

 February 2003

13153,53

2923,96

10229,57

 March 2003

13153,53

2923,96

10229,57

 April 2003

13153,53

2923,96

10229,57

 May 2003

13153,53

2923,96

10229,57

 June 2003

13153,53

2923,96

10229,57

 July 2003

13153,53

2923,96

10229,57

 August 2003

13153,53

2923,96

10229,57

September 2003

13153,53

2923,96

10229,57

 October 2003

17533,66

2923,96

14609,7

 November 2003

17533,66

2923,96

14609,7

 December 2003

17533,66

2923,96

14609,7

 January 2004

17533,66

2923,96

14609,7

 February 2004

17533,66

2923,96

14609,7

 March 2004

17533,66

2923,96

14609,7

 Total underpaid (   1  April 2004):

346,052.03

The calculation of underpaid:

 

1,418.05*6 months +2,922.04*  6 months+ 5,845.06*  10 months + 10,229.57* 17 months + 14,609.7* 6 months= 8,508.3+17,532.24+58,450.6+173,902.69+87,658.2 = RUR 346,052.03

 

 

 

 

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