FIRST SECTION
CASE OF RIZZO STRIANO v. ITALY
(Application no. 54800/16)
 
 
 
 
 
 
JUDGMENT
 
STRASBOURG
18 January 2024
 
This judgment is final but it may be subject to editorial revision. In the case of Rizzo Striano v. Italy,
The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting as a Committee composed of:
 Krzysztof Wojtyczek, President,
 Lətif Hüseynov,
 Ivana Jelić, judges,
and Viktoriya Maradudina, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,
Having regard to the decision to reject the Government’s objection to the examination of the application by a Committee,
Having deliberated in private on 14 December 2023,
Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date:
PROCEDURE
1. The case originated in an application against Italy lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) on 13 September 2016. 2. The applicant was represented by Mr I. Toscano, a lawyer practising in Rome. 3. The Italian Government (“the Government”) were given notice of the application. THE FACTS
4. The applicant’s details and information relevant to the application are set out in the appended table. 5. The applicant complained of the non-enforcement of the domestic decision awarding him damages for the occupation of his plot of land for the construction of an aqueduct and compensation for the establishment of an aqueduct easement, to be paid by the Reclamation Consortium of the Plain of Sybaris and the Middle Crati Valley (Consorzio di Bonifica della Piana di Sibari e della Media Valle del Crati, “The Consortium”). THE LAW
ALLEGED VIOLATION OF ARTICLE 6 § 1 OF THE CONVENTION and of Article 1 of protocol no. 1
6. The applicant complained of the non-enforcement of the domestic decision given in his favour. He relied on Article 6 § 1 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1. Admissibility
7.

Article of the Convention at issue: Article 6
Outcome: violation