During its Human Rights meeting of 23-25 September, the Committee of Ministers decided to end the supervision of execution of the Strasbourg Court’s judgment in Vukota-Bojić. The case concerned a violation of the applicant’s private life due to the lack of clarity in the law regulating the applicant’s daily surveillance in public spaces by private investigators commissioned by the applicant’s insurance company that feared an insurance fraud.
Following this judgment, Parliament adopted legislative amendments (in force since 1 September 2019) which improved the safeguards concerning surveillance of social-insurance benefit claimants. Notably the law now specifies the circumstances where surveillance is allowed, provides for a maximum duration of this measure and the obligation to inform the person concerned about the surveillance before the adoption of the insurance company’s decision on benefit claims.
