issued by the Registrar of the Court
ECHR 180 (2024)
09.07.2024
Judgments of 9 July 2024
The European Court of Human Rights has today notified in writing 11 judgments1:
one Chamber judgment is summarised below;
separate press releases have been issued for two Chamber judgments in the cases of Savinovskikh
and Others v. Russia (application no. 16206/19) and Selçuk v. Türkiye (no. 23093/20).
eight Committee judgments, concerning issues which have already been examined by the Court, can
be consulted on Hudoc and do not appear in this press release.
The judgment summarised below is available only in French.
Delga v. France (application no. 38998/20)
The applicant, Carole Delga, is a French national who was born in 1971 and lives in Toulouse.
The case concerns the foreseeability, within the meaning of Article 7 (no punishment without law) of
the European Convention on Human Rights, of the applicant’s criminal conviction. She is President of
the Regional Council of Occitanie and was convicted of discrimination against a legal entity, the
municipality of Beaucaire, under Articles 225-1 and 432-7 of the Criminal Code.
Relying on Article 7 (no punishment without law), the applicant complains about her conviction for
discrimination, arguing that it was not foreseeable.
Violation of Article 7
Just satisfaction: The applicant did not submit a claim for just satisfaction for pecuniary and non-
pecuniary damage.
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Under Articles 43 and 44 of the Convention, Chamber judgments are not final. During the three-month period following a Chamber
judgment’s delivery, any party may request that the case be referred to the Grand Chamber of the Court. If such a request is made, a
panel of five judges considers whether the case deserves further examination. In that event, the Grand Chamber will hear the case and
deliver a final judgment. If the referral request is refused, the Chamber judgment will become final on that day. Under Article 28 of the
Convention, judgments delivered by a Committee are final.
Once a judgment becomes final, it is transmitted to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe for supervision of its execution.
Further information about the execution process can be found here: www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/execution
