The Court has decided to progressively give notice to the Romanian Government of a number of applications pending before the Court concerning restitution of property that had been nationalised under the communist regime.

There are currently over 300 similar applications pending before the Court. It will notify to the Government those applications that have not been declared inadmissible or struck out at the outset. The background to these applications was set out in the Court’s judgment Văleanu and Others v. Romania.

On the face of it, core issues similar to those raised by the applicants in these pending applications, concerning the protection of property, have already been judged in the Văleanu and Others v. Romania case. On that basis, the Court decided to request from the parties factual information concerning in particular the claimed property’s location and its technical specifications. At the same time, they may submit observations so long as they refer essentially to the factual aspects of the applications and not to preliminary objections or legal issues already decided by the Court in Văleanu and Others.

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