The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe welcomed the measures taken by the Montenegrin authorities to ensure the enforcement of all domestic court decisions issued against the state-owned company "Radoje Dakić" in bankruptcy, and in relation to all its former employees.
While noting that a significant number of workers have already been compensated, the Committee called on the authorities to provide updated information on progress in processing the remaining claims.
The Committee, deciding on the supervision of the execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Dedić and Others v. Montenegro, found that in the cases of Bešović and Others, Abdović and Others, Boljević and Others, Božović and Others, Adrović and Others and Živaljević and Others, no further individual measures were required because the domestic decisions had been enforced and just satisfaction had been paid, and that the conditions for a friendly settlement in the Mirotić case had been met.
It was decided, without prejudice to the Committee's assessment of general measures, to complete the supervision of these judgments and friendly settlements, through the adoption of Final Resolutions.
As regards general measures, the Committee welcomed the consultations held in March 2025 between the Secretariat and the Montenegrin Ministry of Justice regarding the implementation of judgments in this group of cases, where the authorities reiterated their commitment to fully resolving this issue.
The Committee noted with interest the Government's conclusion of 3 October last year, ordering the competent authorities to establish a register to identify the number of unenforced final court judgments in similar cases against other state-owned companies, and to prepare an analysis of the necessary measures to be adopted to address these claims.
The Committee, according to the decision, called on the authorities to complete this process without delay, and to inform them of the specific strategy and timeframe required for its implementation, in order to prevent similar violations of the Convention in the future.
The Committee called on the Montenegrin authorities to provide information on all of the above points by March 30 of next year.
In April last year, the European Court of Human Rights issued three judgments, obliging the Government to pay claims for their wages to some of the former employees of "Radoje Dakić" based on final judgments.
These are the cases “Bešović and Others v. Montenegro” (40 applicants), “Adrović and Others v. Montenegro” (356 applicants) and “Dedić and Others v. Montenegro” (four applicants).
"The European Court took the position that in the specific cases the competent authorities did not make all necessary efforts to ensure the full and timely execution of decisions made in favor of the applicants at the national level," the Office of the Representative of Montenegro before the European Court announced at the time.
They explained that the European Court of Human Rights today announced three judgments based on the petitions of former employees of "Radoj Dakić", who complained about the non-execution of domestic decisions made in their favor.
The Office specified that the judgments in the cases Dedić and others v. Montenegro, Adrović and others v. Montenegro and Bešović and others v. Montenegro were published, in which decisions were made based on the petitions of former employees of "Radoj Dakić" in bankruptcy.
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