No recourse proceedings were instituted in the cases when Moldova was fined by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). This statement was made in Parliament by the deputy-minister of Justice Nicolae Esanu, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to him, the recourse proceedings were not brought in because the mechanism can be applied only in the case of ECHR judgements that were enacted after the amendments to the national legislation had come into force. Esanu affirms that there were few ECHR decisions during this period and the recourse proceedings could not be finished. Info-Prim Neo specifies that the Law 238 came into force on April 14 2006 and stipulates that the state has the right to file recourse proceeding against the persons whose activity was ground for judgements on the compulsory payment of the sums set by ECHR or through an amiable settlement agreement. The law also stipulates that the sums set by an ECHR judgement had to be paid integrally, on the basis of the decision, by the persons which are responsible for the compulsory payment of these sums by Moldova. The Chisinau government was fined by the ECHR in 50 cases for violating human rights. Of them, about 20 decisions were made after the provisions came into force.