PLUT proti Slovinsku

FIRST SECTION

DECISION

Application no. 27464/21
Miran PLUT
against Slovenia

The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting on 23 March 2023 as a Committee composed of:

Alena Poláčková, President,
Gilberto Felici,
Raffaele Sabato, judges,

and Viktoriya Maradudina, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,

Having regard to the above application lodged on 17 May 2021,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

The applicant, Mr Miran Plut, was born in 1990.

The applicant was represented by Mr M. Vajda, a lawyer practising in Ljubljana.

The applicant’s complaint under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention concerning the length of proceedings before the Constitutional Court was communicated to the Slovenian Government (“the Government”), who submitted observations on the admissibility and merits. The observations were forwarded to the applicant, who was invited to submit his observations. He submitted them in Slovenian language but did not submit their translation in one of the Court’s official languages.

By letter dated 12 January 2023, sent to the applicant’s representative via the Court’s Electronic Communication Service (eComms), the applicant was notified that the period allowed for submission of his observations in one of the Court’s official languages had expired on 7 December 2022. He was requested to submit the translation by 19 January 2023. The applicant was warned that the Court may strike his application out of its list of cases where the circumstances lead to the conclusion that he does not intend to pursue the application. The applicant’s representative received this letter on the same day, that is on 12 January 2023. However, no response has followed.

THE LAW

In the light of the foregoing, and in the absence of any special circumstances regarding respect for the rights guaranteed by the Convention and the Protocols thereto, the Court, in accordance with Article 37 § 1 (a) of the Convention, considers that it is no longer justified to continue the examination of the application.

Accordingly, the case should be struck out of the list.

For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,

Decides to strike the application out of its list of cases.

Done in English and notified in writing on 13 April 2023.

Viktoriya Maradudina Alena Poláčková
Acting Deputy Registrar President