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issued by the Registrar of the Court   ECHR 291 (2021)   05.10.2021   Judgments of 5 October 2021   The European Court of Human Rights has today notified in writing five judgments1:   one Chamber judgment is summarised below;   four Committee judgments, concerning issues which have already been submitted to the Court, can   be consulted on Hudoc and do not appear in this press release.   The judgment summarised below is available only in English.   Just satisfaction   Könyv-Tár Kft and Others v. Hungary (application no. 21623/13)   The applicants, Könyv-Tár Kft, Suli-Könyv Kft and Tankönyv-Ker Bt, are limited liability companies.   They are registered in Budapest, Tata (Hungary) and Budapest respectively.   On 16 October 2018 the Court held that there had been a violation of Article 1 (protection of   property) of Protocol No. 1 to the European Convention on Human Rights on account of a new   system of schoolbook distribution which led to the de facto exclusion of the applicant companies   from that business without any measure to protect them from arbitrariness or to offer them redress   in terms of compensation. The question of just satisfaction was reserved for a future date.   Today’s judgment deals the question of the application of Article 41 in so far as pecuniary damage   resulting from the violation found in respect of the applicant companies is concerned, as well as the   costs and expenses incurred before the Court.   Just satisfaction:   pecuniary damage: 160,000 euros (EUR), EUR 570,000 and EUR 28,000 to the first, second and third   applicant companies respectively   costs and expenses: EUR 25,000 to the applicant companies jointly   This press release is a document produced by the Registry. It does not bind the Court. Decisions,   judgments and further information about the Court can be found on www.echr.coe.int. To receive   the Court’s press releases, please subscribe here: www.echr.coe.int/RSS/en or follow us on Twitter   @ECHR_CEDH.   Press contacts   [email protected] | tel.: +33 3 90 21 42 08   Tracey Turner-Tretz (tel.: + 33 3 88 41 35 30)   Denis Lambert (tel.: + 33 3 90 21 41 09)   Inci Ertekin (tel.: + 33 3 90 21 55 30)   Neil Connolly (tel.: + 33 3 90 21 48 05)   Jane Swift (tel.: + 33 3 88 41 29 04)   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: http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/execution - _blank   The European Court of Human Rights was set up in Strasbourg by the Council of Europe Member   States in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights.   2