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Zagadnienie prawne

Czy zakaz zgromadzeń publicznych wprowadzony w Szwajcarii w 2020 roku w ramach środków zwalczania pandemii COVID-19 naruszył prawo do wolności pokojowych zgromadzeń, gwarantowane przez art. 11 Konwencji?

Stan faktyczny

Skarżąca, Communauté genevoise d'action syndicale (CGAS), jest stowarzyszeniem zarejestrowanym zgodnie z prawem szwajcarskim. Skarży się, że została pozbawiona prawa do organizowania i uczestniczenia w zgromadzeniach publicznych w wyniku środków przyjętych przez rząd szwajcarski w celu zwalczania COVID-19, obowiązujących od 17 marca do 30 maja 2020 roku. Uważa, że zakazy wprowadzone przez rozporządzenie COVID-19 nr 2 naruszyły jej prawo do wolności pokojowych zgromadzeń oraz prawo do wolności związkowej.

Pełny tekst orzeczenia

issued by the Registrar of the Court ECHR 316 (2023) 20.11.2023 Announcement of a Grand Chamber case concerning the banning of public events in Switzerland in 2020 as part of anti-COVID measures The European Court of Human Rights will be ruling in the case of Communaut� genevoise d'action syndicale (CGAS) v. Switzerland (application no. 21881/20) at a public hearing on 27 November 2023 at 2.30 p.m. in the Human Rights Building, Strasbourg. The case concerns measures, in force from 17 March to 30 May 2020, which were adopted by the Swiss Government to counter the coronavirus disease 2019 ("COVID -19"). Principal facts and complaints The applicant association, Communaute genevoise d'action syndicale (CGAS), is an association registered under Swiss law. It complains that it was deprived of the right to organise public gatherings, and to take part in such gatherings, as a result of the measures adopted by the Swiss Government in the context of tackling COVID-19 throughout the period of application of Ordinance no. 2 on measures to combat the coronavirus ("Ordinance COVID-19 no. 2"), that is to say from 17 March to 30 May 2020. Relying on Article 11 (freedom of assembly and association) of the European Convention on Human Rights, it considers that the prohibitions introduced by Ordinance COVID-19 no. 2 breached its right to freedom of peaceful assembly. The applicant association also alleges that the ban on all gatherings, whether public or private, imposed by the above Ordinance also breached its right to trade-union freedom. Procedure The application was lodged with the European Court of Human Rights on 26 May 2020. In its judgment of 15 March 2022, the Court held, by four votes to three, that there had been a violation of Article 11 of the Convention (link to the press release). On 10 June 2022 the Government requested that the case be referred to the Grand Chamber under Article 43 (referral to the Grand Chamber) and on 5 September 2022 the panel of the Grand Chamber accepted that request. A hearing was held on 12 April 2023. 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 We would encourage journalists to send their enquiries via email. Inci Ertekin (tel : + 33 3 90 21 55 30) Tracey Turner-Tretz (tel : + 33 3 88 41 35 30) Denis Lambert (tel : + 33 3 90 21 41 09) Neil Connolly (tel : + 33 3 90 21 48 05) Jane Swift (tel : + 33 3 88 41 29 04) 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