Tender to be held in July?
Strasbourg, 10.03.2010 - The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe concluded on 4 March 2010 its first special human rights meeting devoted to the supervision of the execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. The decisions adopted directly at the meeting in some 25 cases or groups of cases against Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Italy, Moldova, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Turkey, Ukraine and United Kingdom have just been published.
Among other decisions, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has also touched upon the execution of the judgment regarding "Meltex" LTD, ("A1+") that was announced on June 17, 2008.
1078th DH meeting -4 March 2010
Section 4.2
- 1 case against Armenia
32283/04 Meltex Ltd and Mesrop Movsesyan, judgment of 17/06/2008, final on 17/09/2008
Decisions
The Deputies,
1. took note with interest of the information provided by the Armenian government confirming the holding of a call for tenders, in which the applicant will be given the possibility to participate, in July 2010; recalled in this context the recommendations and declarations adopted by the Committee of Ministers on freedom of expression, media pluralism and diversity;
2. stressed the importance of the call for tender for the execution of this judgment and took note of the government's position according to which, while awaiting the issue of the procedure, no measure is possible in favour of the applicant company because any measure other than an effective and transparent conduct of a tender process would lead to a situation in which the rights of third parties would be infringed;
3. invited the Armenian authorities to keep the Committee of Ministers informed of the progress of the call for tenders and recalled that detailed information on the developments regarding the remedies pursued by the applicant before the competent national judicial authorities is awaited;
4. decided to resume consideration of this item at the latest at their 1092nd meeting (September 2010) (DH), in the light of further information to be provided by the authorities.The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has taken note of the information by the Armenian government according to which a tender will be held in July this year and that "A1+" will have the opportunity to participate.
