Published on 1 December 2025
THIRD SECTION
Application no. 6487/25
Jelena MITROVIĆ
against Serbia
lodged on 12 February 2025
communicated on 10 November 2025
SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE
The application concerns a complaint under Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention, because of the imposition of property tax for the year 2017 on a house, owned by the applicant, which had been seized in 2009 in the context of criminal proceedings against her father, and manged by the Ministry of Justice’s Direction for Management of Seized Property, between its seizure in 2009 and final confiscation in 2019.
QUESTIONS TO THE PARTIES
Has there been an interference with the applicant’s peaceful enjoyment of possessions, within the meaning of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 (see Burden v. the United Kingdom [GC], no. 13378/05, § 59, ECHR 2008, and Bežanić and Baškarad v. Croatia, nos. 16140/15 and 13322/16, § 60, 19 May 2022?
If so, was that interference necessary to control the use of property in accordance with the general interest or to secure the payment of taxes or other contributions or penalties?
In particular, did that interference impose an excessive individual burden on the applicant (see Immobiliare Saffi v. Italy, [GC], no. 22774/93, §§ 49 and 59, ECHR 1999-V, and Waldner v. France, no. 26604/16, § 42, 7 December 2023)?