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Bulgaria No Longer in Top Ten ECHR Pending Cases, Judgments


Sofia, January 30 (BTA) - Bulgaria is no longer among the top
ten countries with judgments and pending cases before the
European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), the Justice Ministry said
 Friday.

Speaking at the annual press conference of the European Court of
 Human Rights on January  29, 2015, President Spielmann took
stock of the year 2014 and said that the Court had continued to
build on the progress made in 2013, the court's site said. The
annual table of violations by country shows that the States with
 the highest number of judgments finding at least one violation
of the Convention were Russia (122 judgments), Turkey (94),
Romania (74), Greece (50) and Hungary (49).

Bulgaria is twelfth in this ranking with 18 judgments compared
to the years in which it ranked seventh through ninth.

Bulgaria has also made progress in the number of cases
distributed by panels, ranking 16th with 969 pending appeals,
after being among the first ten for years.

At December 31, 2014 the majority of pending cases were against
Ukraine (19.5 per cent), Italy (14.4 per cent), Russia (14.3 per
 cent) and Turkey (13.6 per cent). Half the priority cases
concerned Russia or Romania.

Speaking at the annual press conference of the European Court of
 Human Rights on January 29, 2015, President Spielmann took
stock of the year 2014 and said that the Court had continued to
build on the progress made in 2013.

By the end of 2014 the number of pending cases stood at 69,900,
a decrease of 30 per cent compared with the end of 2013 (100,000
 applications pending).