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EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS  919  19.12.2000   Press release issued by the Registrar   CHAMBER JUDGMENTS CONCERNING: Austria and Italy   The European Court of Human Rights has today notified in writing the following six Chamber judgments:   Section 1   (1)  Principe and Others v. Italy (application no. 44330/98)           Friendly settlement The six applicants, all Italian nationals, complained about the length of civil proceedings (nine years and five months) to which they were parties. They invoked Article 6 § 1 (right to a determination of civil rights within a reasonable time) of the European Convention on Human Rights. The case has been struck out following a friendly settlement in which 28,000,000 Italian lire (ITL) is to be paid to each applicant for any non-pecuniary damage and ITL 500,000 for costs and expenses. The judgment is available only in French.   (2)  Marcotrigiano v. Italy (44344/98)             Friendly settlement Gaetano Marcotrigiano, an Italian national, complained, under Article 6 § 1, about the length of the administrative proceedings (seven years and five months) to which he was a party. The case has been struck out following a friendly settlement in which ITL 10,000,000 is to be paid for any non-pecuniary damage and ITL 1,000,000 for costs and expenses. (Judgment in French)   Section 3         Friendly settlements   Four applicants, all Austrian nationals, complained that their convictions by the administrative authorities for drunken driving and their subsequent convictions by the criminal courts, for causing injury by negligence (or, in the case of R. v. Austria, injury and death) whilst under the influence of drink, violated their right not to be tried or punished twice under Article 4 of Protocol No. 7 to the Convention.  R. also invoked Article 13 (right to an effective remedy).   The cases have been struck out following friendly settlements (judgments in English) in which compensation in respect of any possible claims relating to the applications is to be paid as follows:   (3)  R. v. Austria (32502/96) - 60,000 Austrian schillings (ATS) (4)  S. v. Austria (33732/96) - ATS 55,000 (5)  Edelmayer v. Austria (33979/96) - ATS 54,000 (6)  Freunberger v. Austria (34186/96) - ATS 53,000   The Court’s judgments are accessible on its Internet site (http://www.echr.coe.int).   Registry of the European Court of Human Rights F – 67075 Strasbourg Cedex Contacts: Roderick Liddell (telephone: (0)3 88 41 24 92)  Emma Hellyer (telephone: (0)3 90 21 42 15) Fax: (0)3 88 41 27 91   The European Court of Human Rights was set up in Strasbourg in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights. On 1 November 1998 a full-time Court was established, replacing the original two-tier system of a part-time Commission and Court.