FOURTH SECTION
DECISION
Application no. 31149/16
Florian MATEI against Romania
and 4 other applications
(see appended table)
The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting on 24 November 2022 as a Committee composed of:
Armen Harutyunyan, President,
Anja Seibert-Fohr,
Ana Maria Guerra Martins, judges,
and Viktoriya Maradudina, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,
Having regard to the above applications lodged on the various dates indicated in the appended table,
Having deliberated, decides as follows:
FACTS AND PROCEDURE
The list of the applicants is set out in the appendix.
The applicants’ complaints under Article 3 of the Convention concerning the inadequate conditions of detention were communicated to the Romanian Government, who submitted observations on the admissibility and merits. The observations were forwarded to the applicants, who were invited to submit their own observations. No reply was received by the Court.
By letters sent by registered post, the applicants were notified that the time allowed for the submission of their observations had expired (see the appended table for the relevant dates). The applicants’ attention was further drawn to Article 37 § 1 (a) of the Convention, which provides that the Court may strike an application out of its list of cases where the circumstances lead to the conclusion that the applicant does not intend to pursue the application.
The registered letters either returned to the Court or were received by the applicants (see details in the appended table). No reply to these letters has been received by the Court and there are no previous letters from the applicants informing the Court about the change of address.
THE LAW
Having regard to the similar subject matter of the applications, the Court finds it appropriate to examine them jointly in a single decision.
In the light of the foregoing, the Court concludes that the applicants may be regarded as no longer wishing to pursue the applications (Article 37 § 1 (a) of the Convention). Furthermore, in accordance with Article 37 § 1 in fine, the Court finds no special circumstances regarding respect for human rights as defined in the Convention and the Protocols thereto which require the continued examination of the applications.
In view of the above, it is appropriate to strike the cases out of the list.
For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,
Decides to join the applications;
Decides to strike the applications out of its list of cases.
Done in English and notified in writing on 15 December 2022.
Viktoriya Maradudina Armen Harutyunyan
Acting Deputy Registrar President
APPENDIX
List of applications raising complaints under Article 3 of the Convention
(inadequate conditions of detention)
No.
Application no.
Date of introduction
Applicant’s name
Year of birth
Date of the applicant’s
last letter to the Court
Date of sending Government’s observations to the applicant
Time-limit for submitting response by the applicant
Date of the Court’s
registered letter
Date of receipt/return of the registered letter
Date of the applicant’s release from prison
31149/16
19/07/2016
Florian MATEI
1969
01/06/2021
25/01/2022
22/02/2022
28/04/2022
11/08/2022
(returned)
07/11/2017
60259/16
25/01/2017
Adrian DUMITRU
1984
26/04/2021
01/03/2022
01/03/2022
23/06/2022
06/07/2022
(delivered)
11/04/2018
71631/16
07/01/2017
Constantin MANEA
1975
07/09/2020
10/05/2022
07/06/2022
20/07/2022
20/10/2022
(returned)
07/11/2017
44879/17
03/07/2017
Adrian DINU
1984
28/08/2020
10/05/2022
07/06/2022
20/07/2022
28/07/2022
(delivered)
31/03/2018
70665/17
12/10/2017
Viorel DUMITRU
1975
07/09/2020
10/05/2022
07/06/2022
20/07/2022
27/07/2022
(delivered)
19/10/2017