The Constitutional Court has completed all cases in which the Strasbourg Court was interested.

The Constitutional Court announced that they have made decisions in all cases in which the European Court of Human Rights expressed interest, and which are listed in the report on the work of the Office of the Representative of Montenegro before that court for the first half of 2025.

"The representative of Montenegro before Strasbourg announced that the European Court has requested his statement in 30 cases, and that around 63 percent of the communicated complaints/petitions relate to the alleged violation of the right to a fair trial due to the length of proceedings before the Constitutional Court, or 19 cases," the statement reads.

They point out that during the first half of this year, the Representative of Montenegro communicated with the European Court in 19 cases due to the length of proceedings before the Constitutional Court, and that in the meantime the Constitutional Court has already issued decisions in those cases.

"For example, in some cases the Constitutional Court decided even before the party filed an application with the European Court. The same situation applies when we talk about the 38 cases that the state representative communicated with Strasbourg during 2024, where a decision was made on constitutional complaints, which were filed between 2015 and 2019," they explained.

They point out that the Constitutional Court has issued a decision in all 57 cases communicated by the European Court of Human Rights and sent it to the parties, "which points to the conclusion that the state cannot suffer damage due to the continued duration of the proceedings."

"By resolving cases older than three years, the Constitutional Court has prevented future violations due to the length of the proceedings, which the European Court could eventually determine," the statement reads.